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The year is 1972, the Cold War is far from over and Serena Frome, in her final year at Cambridge, is being groomed for MI5. Sent...

The definitive account of North Korea - its veiled past and uncertain future - from former White House adviser and Korea expert...

The novel that set the stage for his modern classic, The Satanic Verses, Shame is Salman Rushdie's unforgettable epic.

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It is not love at first sight for Frances and Bernard.

She finds him faintly ridiculous while he sees her as aloof. But after...

The Bonfire of the Vanities author, Tom Wolfe, ingeniously dissects the turbulent heart of America’s racial vortex in this...

Born at the stroke of midnight, at the precise moment of India's independence, Saleem Sinai is destined from birth to be special....

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Discover George Eliot's first novel, a tale of rural tragedy and redemption.

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When Pearl Tull’s husband, Beck, abandons her she pours her energies into preserving normality. Only gradually do her three...

A new re-issue of the cult swimming classic, a beautiful read filled with detailed description and powerful prose.

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A deadly new threat awaits Simon Serrailler in this compulsive thriller from Susan Hill, the bestselling author of The Woman in...

Simon Serrailler faces his most dangerous challenge yet in the edge-of-your-seat thriller from Susan Hill, the bestselling author...

From the author of The Stolen Bicycle - longlisted for the International Man Booker Prize

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In a snow-covered village in Chechnya, eight-year-old Havaa watches from the woods as her father is abducted in the middle of the...

Edward VII, who gave his name to the Edwardian era but was always known as Bertie, was fifty-nine when he finally came to power...

Ambitious and groundbreaking, Electric Shock tells the story of popular music, from the birth of recording in the 1890s to the...

From the author of Half of the Human Race (Channel 4 TV Book Club) comes an intricate and thrilling tale of love and conspiracy...

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Curl up with ultimate beloved Christmas classic!

'Bah! Humbug!'

Mr Scrooge is a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping,...

‘I pretend I am a princess, so that I can try and behave like one’

Without her beloved father and miles from home, it is very...

‘Wait, wait! Save us! What’ll we do?’

Simon is determined to become a painter when he grows up so he sets off to London to...

Or so Nancy thinks. Then the lake ices over completely and the Swallows and Amazons, along with Dick and Dorothea - 'the D's' -...

‘Why do they call him Black Jake? Is it because of his hair?’ Titty asked.
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It is 1948 and a young American couple arrive in France for a holiday, full of anticipation and enthusiasm. But the countryside...

No food, no water, no government, no obligation, no order.

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Mysterious disappearances, domestic cases, noiseless, bloodless snuffings-out… the law can look as deep as it likes, but when the...