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2 July 1644. Five armies converge outside York. It will be a battle for honour, glory, and the fate of three kingdoms. And it...

Autumn,1643. As an increasingly bitter war rages across England, Captain Innocent Stryker leaves Oxford with orders to recover a...

The forces of King Charles are victorious; their Parliamentarian enemies in deep crisis. In the west, the crucial port city of...

Magnus McFall was a comic on the brink of his big break when the world came to an end. Now, he is a man on the run and there is...

A wide-eyed boy growing up in suburban Calcutta in the 1960s experiences the world through the eyes of others an intoxicating...

In this extraordinary novel, Amitav Ghosh navigates through time and genres to present a unique tale. Beginning at an unspecified...

England stands divided: king against Parliament, town against country, brother against brother.

For Captain Stryker, scarred...

A kiss, a touch. A smile and a beating heart. Love and sex and dreams, art and drugs and the madness of youth. Betrayal and...

1592. England and Spain are at war, yet there is peril at home, too. The death of her trusted spymaster Sir Francis Walsingham...

Welcome to LA. City of contradictions.

It is home to movie stars and down-and-outs. Palm-lined beaches and gridlock. Shopping...

Something very peculiar is happening in Stockholm. There’s a heatwave on and people cannot turn their lights out or switch their...

Sebastian Zollner is set on writing the biography of the painter Manuel Kaminski.
Yet Kaminski – once a pupil of Matisse, now an...

Beginning in 1907 with the founding of a factory in Songarh, a small provincial town where narrow attitudes prevail, the story is...

When Nefertari's entire family is killed in a fire, she's left to grow up alone, a spare princess in the palace of the new...

1570 in the Italian city of Ferrara. Sixteen-year-old Serafina is fipped by her family from an illicit love affair and forced...

Meet Penelope O'Shaughnessy, Harvard freshman.

Armed with her Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights poster and party conversation...

Seventeen-year-old Alan can't stand rows. But, though the Second World War has ended, peace hangs by a fine thread at home: his...

Grizel Dane, a bold young servicewoman in the US army, arrives at the London home of her great-uncle Sir Rollo Dane seeking...

'The motto was Pax but the word was set in a circle of thorns. Peace, but what a strange peace, made of unremitting toil and...

Harriet is caught between two worlds: her older sister is no longer a playmate, her brother is still a little boy. And the...

By the end of the fifteenth century, the beauty and creativity of Italy is matched only by its brutality and corruption. When...

Set in London and Monmouth in the late 1700s, this is an extraordinary novel about Mary Saunders, the young daughter of a poor...

An orphan poses nervously for a Renaissance maestro in medieval Siena and an artist's servant girl in seventeenth-century...

When Rainclouds Gather: Escaping South Africa and his troubled past, Makehaya crosses the border to Botswana, in the hope of...

The Group follows eight graduates from exclusive Vassar College as they find love and heartbreak, forge careers, gossip and party...

In Muriel Spark's fantastic first novel, the only things that aren't ambiguous are her matchless originality and glittering...

Seven months into her pregnancy, Rachel discovers that her husband is in love with another woman. The fact that this woman has a...

In affairs of the heart the race is not necessarily won by the swift or the fair.

Imogen, the beautiful and much younger wife...

From her lookout on the first floor, Ginny watches and waits for her younger sister to return to the crumbling mansion that was...

Art, reality and the strange ways the two imitate one another are at the core of Muriel Spark's delightful Loitering with Intent,...