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It is the early 1920s and Kate Hannigan is happily married to Dr Rodney Prince, who has willingly accepted her illegitimate...

It is spring 1917 in the Cornish coastal village of Zennor, and the young artist Clare Coyne is waking up to the world. Ignoring...

'To tell the story of a country or a continent is surely a great and complex undertaking; but the story of a quiet, unnoticed...

From the Booker Prize-winning and Women's Prize-shortlisted author of The Silence of the Girls

The first novel in Pat...

The Colour of Milk is the new novel by Orange longlisted author and playwright Nell Leyshon.

'this is my book and i am writing...

Philadelphia in 1777 is a city at war - not just between American troops and the British army, but within itself. For an occupied...

'We will all melt like ice-cream in the sun!'
British soldier, East Africa, 1914.

On the Western Front millions are being...

In 1960, fourteen-year-old Laura meets French exchange student, Leon.

Her life will never be the same again.

Things start...

'Maudie, why are all the best characters men?'
Maudie closes the book with a clllump. 'We haven't read all the books yet, Miss...

Daiyu never wanted to be like the tragic heroine for whom she was named, revered for her beauty and cursed with heartbreak. But...

In the sweltering summer of 1938, with Lisbon in the grip of Portugal's dictatorship of Antonio Salazar, a journalist is coming...

Ancient Greece, 5th century BC

The age of myths and legends has given way to the world of men. In the front rank stands...

A sweeping portrait of one Berlin family, spanning generations and two world wars
Peter and Paul, the two sons of German...

A visceral reimagining of 1780s London, showcasing the untold stories of African-American soldiers grappling with their freedom...

The only novel from the revolutionary intellectual C.L.R. James, and the first novel by a black West Indian to be published in...

Mahmood Mattan is a fixture in Cardiff's Tiger Bay, 1952, which bustles with Somali and West Indian sailors, Maltese businessmen...

In the summer of 1952, Joyce and Charlie Savigear are waiting on a railway platform in the quiet English countryside. The...

A stirring and inspiring story perfect for fans of Nadine Dorries and Call The Midwife

Heartbroken but determined, Maud...

From the author of The Liverpool Nightingales comes an uplifting and emotional tale, perfect for fans of Call the Midwife,...

'I always wanted to be friends with both my sisters. Perhaps that was the source, really, of all the troubles of my...

Goliarda Sapienza's The Art of Joy was written over a nine year span, from 1967 to 1976. At the time of her death in 1996,...

A young working class woman abandoned by her bourgeois lover, the tensions of intermarriage between established classes and...

It is 1913 - a breath away from the Great War - and Edwardian England is about to vanish into history. An assorted group of men...

Set in turn-of-the-century New York, E.L. Doctorow's Ragtime seamlessly blends fictional characters and realistic depictions of...

Framed as a letter from the Roman Emperor Hadrian to his successor, Marcus Aurelius, Marguerite Yourcenar's Memoirs of Hadrian is...

The thirteenth-century is just begun and King John has fallen out with the Pope, leaving babies to lie unbaptized in their...

Alec and Jerry shouldn't have been friends: Alec's life was one of privilege, while Jerry's was one of toil. But this hardly...

Meet John James Todd:
Scotsman, auteur, Rousseau-fanatic - and 'subversive element'

Born in 1899, John James Todd is one of...

A quest for secrets in the blue afternoon . . .

Los Angeles, 1936. Kay Fischer, a young and ambitious architect, is being...

Overweight, oversexed and over there . . .

Morgan Leafy is hardly the most respectable of Her Majesty's representatives in the...