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Rediscover Gladys Mitchell - one of the 'Big Three' female crime fiction writers alongside Agatha Christie and Dorothy L....

In this stellar collection of short stories, Helen Simpson explores independence, solitude, marriage, sex and babies with her...

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A thrilling new history of the disastrous years of indecision, failed diplomacy and parliamentary infighting that enabled Hitler...

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The Quick

A woman swims in a remote, milky-blue lagoon. Steam rises from the water and as it clears, a body is revealed in the...

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Rediscover Gladys Mitchell – one of the 'Big Three' female crime fiction writers alongside Agatha Christie and Dorothy L....

Venice, 1522. Intelligence arrives from the east confirming Europe's greatest fear: the vastly rich Ottoman Sultan has all he...

In his first novel, Werner Herzog tells a hypnotic tale inspired by the true story of a Japanese soldier who defended a small...

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