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The captivating life of Margaret Douglas - a life of scandal, political intrigue and royal romance that spanned five Tudor...

October 1914: the destroyer Svea emerged from the Stockholm archipelago bearing south-south-east. On board was Lars...

Isamay's unusual name comes from her two very different grandmothers, Isa and May, who were both present at her birth and who...

Welcome to the village of Notwithstanding, where a lady dresses in plus fours and shoots squirrels, a retired general gives up...

Momik, the only child of two survivors, is brought up in Israel by a family seeking to ignore the past. No-one will explain to...

It is the French Riviera in the 1920s. Nicole and Diver are a wealthy, elegant, magnetic couple. A coterie of admirers are drawn...

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In his first book since the acclaimed The Running Sky Tim Dee tells the story of four green fields. Four fields spread around the...

A teenage son shoots himself under his parents' bed. They sleep that night unaware he is lying dead beneath them.

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This ebullient, gallivanting novel encapsulates the world vision of the Czech Republic's best-loved author in one tumbling,...

Geoffrey Braithwaite is a retired doctor haunted by an obsession with the great French literary genius, Gustave Flaubert. As...

'Darling, this is Younes. Yesterday he was my nephew, today he is our son'.

Younes' life is changed forever when his...

The powerful debut from 2020 Booker Prize shortlisted author of The Shadow King

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 1974 - the eve of a...

'I had this vision very clearly of a book in which I would record my total experience, and I knew how it should sound: with all...

A powerful, moving book of secrets, longing and loss, from the Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Gathering.

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Social worker Keith, separated from his wife and their teenage son, is floundering in a world of fraught sexual politics,...

‘Powerful… Poignant, bleak and haunting, this is a small masterpiece’ Sunday Mirror

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Simon Axler is one of America's leading classical stage actors, but his talent - his magic - has deserted him. All the...

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A house is burning. Its six tenants include a failed priest, a naturalist, a neurosurgeon and a...

Summer of 1911. English society is on the brink of change. The streets of London ring with cheers for a new king's coronation and...

Liverpool, 1939. Lonely historian Tom Baines is at work on a study of the city's architectural past but the ominous news from...

The mysterious death of a young woman on an Australian farm reveals a bittersweet story of doomed wartime romance amidst a family...

Nevil Shute was a power and a pioneer in the world of flying long before he began to write the stories that made him a...

Through a series of mishaps, Henry Warren, a recently divorced City financier, ends up in hospital in a Northern town ruined by...

When Johnny Pascoe attempts to rescue a sick girl from the Tasmanian outback his plane crashes leaving him dangerously injured....

During the Second World War, Peter Marshall's crew become one of the most successful bombing teams in their Oxfordshire airbase....

Young pilot Donald Ross has little in common with the Oxford don who has employed him on an expedition to the Arctic - and still...

Read this classic uplifting, moving and heartwarming story about life in the face of the cold war.

Theodore Honey is a shy,...

Jerry Chambers, a fresh-faced young pilot, mistakenly sinks a British submarine. He is reprimanded and sent to a remote posting...