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Amsterdam in the 1690s - a boom town with Europe's biggest stock exchange and traders who will stop at nothing to get even...

According to Queeney is a masterly evocation of the last years of Dr Johnson, arguably Britain’s greatest Man of Letters. The...

Marigold Green calls herself 'hideous, quaint and barmy'. Other people calle her Bilgewater, a corruption of Bill's daughter....

Set 100 years ago in Boston, Fortune's Rocks is a classic of literary and romantic storytelling.
Fourteen-year-old Olympic...

When Master Georgie - George Hardy, surgeon and photographer - sets off from the cold squalor of Victorian Liverpool for the heat...

Who can guess what a woman will do when the unthinkable becomes her reality From the bestselling author of The Weight of Water,...

On the Sussex Downs in 1066, the psychotic William and his gang of European mercenaries began the process which fragmented a...

The murder of a media moghul in his country mansion appears to be the result of him disturbing a gang of would-be thieves. The...

For the four fraught, mysterious days of her doomed maiden voyage in 1912, the Titanic sails towards New York, glittering with...

Marnus is terrified he will not fulfil the expectations of his elite Afrikaner family who are certain of their superiority. But...

Sir Alfred Munnings, retiring President of the Royal Academy, chooses the 1949 Annual Banquet to launch a savage attack on Modern...

As the wife of a Resistance member in German-occupied Belgium, Claire Daussois has grown used to hiding strange men in her attic....

History is gossip,' says a protagonist in Washington, D.C., 'but the trick is determining which gossip is history.' It is a trick...

Vidal's historical novel set in the 5th century BC and narrated by Cyrus Spitama, son of a Persian prince and Greek sorceress,...

Gore Vidal's fictional recreation of the Roman Empire teetering on the crux of Christianity and ruled by an emperor who was an...

As far back as she can remember, Codi Noline had felt an outsider in her hometown of Grace, Arizona. Her dispassionate father -...

A wonderful bittersweet story about a misguided do-gooder

Eliza Peabody is one of those dangerously blameless women who...

For gauche young apprentice Milos Hrma, life at the small but strategic railway station in Bohemia in 1945 is full of complex...

As the effects of the war raging in Europe begins to be felt at home in London, Monica Dickens decides to do her bit and to...

Two Cultures. Two Families. Two People. Yasmin Ghorami has a lot to be grateful for: a loving family, a fledgling career in...

From plantation to plantation, Almeyda, a young slave girl, hears whispers, rumours of Palmares, a hidden settlement where...

From plantation to plantation, Almeyda, a young slave girl, hears whispers, rumours of Palmares, a hidden settlement where...

Susie Boyt writes with a mordant wit and vivid style which are at their best in Loved and Missed.
When your beloved daughter is...

A young woman looks back to the world of her immigrant parents: a Chinese-Panamanian father and a German mother, who meet in...

In Chia-Chia Lin's piercing debut novel, The Unpassing, we meet a Taiwanese immigrant family of six struggling to make ends meet...

Anna is at a stage of her life when she's beginning to wonder who she really is. She has separated from her husband, her daughter...

Collected Stories includes both volumes of National Book Award-winning author Shirley Hazzard's short story collections - Cliffs...

The estate is called Windcote, 'its very name a masquerade', and its master, the odious Raoul Meridian, has invited a group of...

The mesmerising new thriller, set in the hothouse world of a ballet school, from the bestselling and award-winning writer Megan...

Growing up after the war in Westmere, an English seaside town, Kitty has been sheltered by her parents, but meeting Danny changes...