Paris, 1939: The pavement rumbles with the footfall of Nazi soldiers marching along the Champs Elysees. A young writer, recently...

England, September 1939
Lily Shepherd boards a cruise liner for a new life in Australia and is plunged into a world of...

Liz and Jonathan are in trouble. They can't sell their old house, and they've already moved into their new one. Stuck with two...

The era of the LP began in 1967, with 'Sgt Pepper'; The Beatles didn't just collect together a bunch of songs, they Made An...

London 1948: Eve Forrester is trapped in a loveless marriage, in a gloomy house, in a grey suburb.
Out of the blue, she receives...

The stunning companion to Kate Atkinson's #1 bestseller Life After Life, "one of the best novels I've read this century" (Gillian...

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man of over forty is in possession of a major defect . . .

Cassandra...

You’ve heard the old proverb about ambition, that it’s like setting a ladder to the sky. It can lead to a long and painful...

Sappho Jones stopped counting birthdays when she reached thirty but, even with her hazy grip on mathematics, she realises that...

One encounter and life is never the same again...

The Logans were an enchanting and admirable couple. Archie had snatched Liza...

Bill Bryson describes himself as a reluctant traveller, but even when he stays safely at home he can't contain his curiosity...

'The doctor was fated to go back to Bombay; he would keep returning again and again - if not forever, at least for as long as...

Two lives intertwined and seemingly harmonious. One decision that changes everything.

Lizzie and Frances are twins, together...

Would you take a chance and set something in motion that could change everything?

The Grey House is the final piece in the...

Polson... , Scott...

What is AIQ? How does it work? Most importantly, how can it help us?

Two leading data scientists offer an up-close and...

The Language of the Genes and In the Blood revisits Darwin's The Origin of Species, and updates it for the twenty-first...

The average adult spends about a third of his or her waking time alone.

Yet research suggests we aren't very good at using,...

She knew it was a weird place. She’d heard the stories, seen the movies, read the books. But now police Chief Inspector Sigrid...

The acclaimed word-of-mouth bestseller about the marriage of an American First Lady: A rich, utterly absorbing, powerful story of...

Cricket defines Englishness like no other national pastime. From its earliest origins in the sixteenth century (or an early...

Four strong women. All working in a family business. But what happens when they begin to want different things? And what about...

Alice and Alife couldn't be more different.

He's charming, talkative and outgoing. She's reserved, efficient and a...

'Little short of a masterpiece...Fizzing with wit and energy, Kate Atkinson's hilarious novel made me laugh and cry' Daily...

In this collection of twelve dark, unerring and surprising short stories, John Boyne explores the extremities of the human...

A fascinating and revelatory journey along the Danube to appeal to fans of Michael Palin's New Europe.

The Danube is Europe's...

With every breath, you literally inhale the history of the world. On the ides of March, 44 BC, Julius Caesar died of stab wounds...

Cambridge is sweltering, during an unusually hot summer. To Jackson Brodie, former police inspector turned private investigator,...

On the banks of the River Seine in 1899, a young woman takes her final breath before plunging into the icy water. Although she...

July 1910: The grisly remains of Cora Crippen, music hall singer and wife of Dr Hawley Crippen, are discovered in the cellar of...

When Noel Bostock - aged ten, no family - is evacuated from London to escape the Blitz, he winds up in St Albans with Vera Sedge...