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Even down to its well-set Georgian townhouses, Edinburgh is a hymn to measure and harmony. But on Scotland Street, domestic...

Old Filth and The Man in the Wooden Hat told with bristling tenderness and black humour the stories of that Titan of the Hong...

The beautiful, spoiled and bored Olivia, married to a civil servant, outrages society in the tiny, suffocating town of Satipur by...

Marian Sutro is an outsider: the daughter of a diplomat, brought up on the shores of Lake Geneva and in England, half French,...

He is watching you.

He knows you, better than you know yourself. And he is using his knowledge to plan your death.

But you...

When does sorrow turn to shame? When does love become labour? When does chance become choice? And when does fact become...

1262 A.D.
In the dusty heat of French fields, knights battle for supremacy in a fierce tournament. At its violent heart is...

We don t want to tell you what happens in this book. It is a truly special story and we don t want to spoil it.

Nevertheless,...

Hundreds of years in the future, after the Something that Happened, the world is an alarmingly different place. Life is lived...

Commander Thomas Kydd is eager to play his part in thwarting Bonaparte's plans for the invasion of England.

Joining Admiral...

Napoleon's forces are poised to invade Britain, and Commander Thomas Kydd's ship is at the forefront of the fleet defending the...

Thomas Kydd has dragged himself up in the navy from press-ganged seaman to captain of his own ship. Now he faces...

Athene Forster embraced the Sixties like few others. Nicknamed the Last Deb, she was spoiled, beautiful, and out of control. And...

Three Blake sisters remain in the Swan River Colony in 1866 and two are quite happy to forge new lives for themselves...

In the untamed outback of Western Australia, the Blake sisters are together again despite what seemed like unsurmountable...

Cassandra Blake has raised her three motherless sisters. The girls are the pride of their book-loving, impractical father, and...

Norah s husband was killed in the Great War, and she s struggling to provide a home for her daughter. Andrew s wife is dead and...

Timothy Gandy has kept his lifetime's ambition secret for forty years.

Now, suddenly (if tragically) released from the...

Attacked, damned, praised and read around the world, The Carpetbaggers was first published in 1961 and shelved high enough that...

In 1944, a German Jewish refugee is sent to Wales to interview Rudolf Hess; in Snowdonia, a seventeen-year-old girl, the daughter...

Ten years ago, fifteen-year-old Jade Flynn and three other girls were forced to become the sole occupants of the fourth floor of...

A septuagenarian contract killer, a chronic hypochondriac, two zombie-creating comedians, a good Samaritan and a man called...

A soldier wounded in the Civil War, Inman turns his back on the carnage of the battlefield and begins the treacherous journey...

In the shadow of Auschwitz, a flamboyant German industrialist grew into a living legend to the Jews of Cracow. He was a...

Welcome to Bascom, North Carolina, where it seems that everyone has a story to tell about the Waverley women. The house that s...

The feisty, tough and shrewd heroine is back in her fourth adventure in the V I Warshawski series, beautifully repackaged for a...

Meeting an anonymous client on a sizzling summer night is asking for trouble. Especially when the client lies and tells V I...

John Connolly turns his pen to the short story to give us a volume of chilling tales of the supernatural. In this macabre...

Rachel Cutler loves her job and her kids, and remains civil to her ex-husband, Paul. But everything changes when her father dies...

The Romans have vanquished the rebel alliance; Calgus, Lord of the Northern Tribes, is the prisoner of the chieftains he once...