It is 1946, and seventeen-year-old Laura Telling is stagnating in her dilapidated Sussex family home, while her eccentric parents...

Willie Upton returns to her ancestral home of Templeton, New York after a disastrous affair with her married archaeology...

On the eve of her daughter Alia’s wedding, Salma reads the girl’s future in a cup of coffee dregs.

Although she keeps her...

Doctors are the people we turn to in our darkest moments. We trust them with our lives. But what does that stress do to a...

A panoramic new history of modern Britain, as told through the story of one extraordinary family, and one groundbreaking...

VIENNA, 1911. Greta Goldbaum has always dreamed of being free to choose her own life's path, but the Goldbaum family, one of the...

This summer, Clover Quinn wants to find the missing pieces of her story.

Clover Quinn was a surprise. She used to imagine she...

Alexandra Heminsley thought she could swim. She really did.
It may have been because she could run. It may have been because she...

Jones... , Thompson...

Foreword by Chrissie Hynde

Without the Sex Pistols there would be no punk rock, and without Steve Jones there would be no Sex...

A wonderfully readable investigation of the origins of the modern garden in 18th-century England. Popular history at its...

When Lucie Tang Churchill meets George Zao at a lavish wedding in Capri, she can't stand him. She can't stand that he gallantly...

'A past more dramatic than Chekhov, more tragic than Tolstoy and more romantic than Pasternak'
Between the first revolution in...

A real-time five-hour story set in an airport cocktail lounge during a global disaster. Five disparate people are trapped inside:...

No building has been more intimately involved in the story of Britain than the Tower of London - a mighty, brooding stronghold in...

Издание полностью на английском языке.
The author's incisive and amusingly despairing emails to colleagues at the "The Daily...