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Like Water For Chocolate tells the captivating story of the De la Garza family. As the youngest daughter, Tita is forbidden by...

In a spirited opening piece, John Irving explains how he became a writer. There follow six scintillating stories written over the...

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

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In the gentle precinct of Aldminster Cathedral, crisis looms.

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Julia Hunter and Kate Bain have found true happiness with men old enough to be...

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

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

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

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

'If you care about something you have to protect it. If you're lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the...

Fred 'Bogus' Trumper is a wayward knight-errant in the battle of the sexes and the pursuit of happiness. He also happens to have...

'The brown bears paced, brushing their thick coats against the bars; their heads swayed low to the ground, in rhythm with some...

Two centuries of reform, revolution and political intrigue in Chris Bryant's epic biography of Parliament

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Five footprints are the only sign that Daniel Buck was ever here.

Yesterday they were a family just like any other: Anna and...

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

It is wash-day for the housemaids at Longbourn House, and Sarah's hands are chapped and raw. Domestic life below stairs, ruled...

1911: Inside an asylum at the edge of the Yorkshire moors, where men and women are kept apart by high walls and barred windows,...

Remembrance Day 1920: A wartime secret connects three women's lives:

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Best friends tell you everything; about their kitchen renovation; about their little girl’s schooling. How one of them is leaving...

An early memoir from the world's most famous atheist, and scientist.

Born to parents who were enthusiastic naturalists, and...

Juan Diego's little sister is a mind reader. As a teenager, he struggles to keep anything secret - Lupe knows all the worst...

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

It's all gone wrong with the man Lottie thought was Mr Right. Then out of the blue she gets a call from her first love. She...

Odran Yates enters Clonliffe Seminary in 1972 after his mother informs him that he has a vocation to the priesthood. He goes in...

1867. On a dark and chilling night Eliza Caine arrives in Norfolk to take up her position as governess at Gaudlin Hall. As she...

Summer, 1972: In the claustrophobic heat, eleven-year-old Byron and his friend begin 'Operation Perfect', a hapless mission to...

When Harold Fry nips out one morning to post a letter, leaving his wife hoovering upstairs, he has no idea that he is about to...

Jim Al-Khalili is about to untangle the world's greatest science conundrums...

How does the fact that it gets dark at night...

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

1936: London is abuzz with gossip about the affair between Edward VIII and Mrs. Simpson. But the king is not the only member of...