In tiny Merinac, Kansas, Chicken Mimi’s and Chicken Frannie’s have spent a century vying to serve up the best fried chicken in...

The King knows the true power and privilege of books. When every book is cause for suspicion, you risk execution for possessing...

A history of Piccadilly: London's bustling meeting place for over a century.

There's nowhere quite like Piccadilly...

Though many have never heard her name, Alice Prin - Kiki de Montparnasse - was the icon of 1920s Paris. She captivated as a...

The boy is almost eighteen and has a loving family. He's polite and well-educated, quiet but always smiling.
When word spreads...

The New York Times bestseller – of how six bonobo apes change the lives of three humans, from master storyteller Sara Gruen,...

The early adventures of a young David Attenborough: the story of his time filming the original 1950s series, Zoo Quest, with...

The funny, frank and full autobiography of the nation's favourite comedian.

'It's the first time I've done this. Other people...

Two strangers. One recipe. A friendship for the ages.

Creamy risotto alla Milanese. Mussels in a hot, buttery broth. Chicken...

A gripping novel about family, loss and secrets, from the author of TheTimes bestselling sensation Can You Hear Me?

The boy is...

Glasgow, 1817: Jean Campbell - a young, Deaf woman - is witnessed throwing a child into the River Clyde from the Old...

Madame Burova - Tarot Reader, Palmist and Clairvoyant is retiring and leaving her booth on the Brighton seafront after fifty...

Lily Crawford and Jeanie Taylor, from very different backgrounds, are firm friends from their childhoods in Kirkcudbright. They...

Elisabeth, an accomplished journalist and new mother, is struggling to adjust to life in a small town after nearly twenty years...

58-year-old Jackie Douglas thinks she has everything she wants - kids, grandchildren, and a comfortable retirement with her...

Cyprus in the run up to the civil war of the 1970s... the threat of it hangs in the atmosphere like a fine mist. A terrible...

'I thought of the books we carried and the hands that would one day hold them. The pages read, turned and discussed. And how the...

The tech company Public Square believes in 'doing well by doing good'. It's built a multi-billion dollar business on this...

Germany, 1907
Aristocrat Frieda von Richthofen has rashly married English professor Ernest Weekley. Visiting her sisters in...

Nothing is as permanent as it appears...

Denver, 1962
Kitty Miller has come to terms with her unconventional single...

1815, Sumbawa Island, Indonesia
Mount Tambora explodes in a cataclysmic eruption, killing thousands. Sent to investigate, ship...

1627. In a notorious historical event, pirates raided the coast of Iceland and abducted 400 people into slavery in Algiers. Among...

Alva Smith, her Southern family destitute after the Civil War, marries into one of America's great Gilded Age dynasties: the...

Veteran BBC reporter William Carver is in Cairo, bang in the middle of the Arab Spring. 'The only story in the world' according...

Kabul, Afghanistan.

In a brilliantly plotted contemporary thriller with echoes of Graham Greene and John le Carre, William...

Ephram Jennings has never forgotten the beautiful girl with the long braids running through the piney woods of Liberty, their...

The Words In My Hand is the re-imagined true story of Helena Jans, a Dutch maid in 17th-century Amsterdam, who works for Mr...

Elizabeth Pringle lived all her long life on the Scottish island of Arran. But did anyone really know her? In her will she leaves...

Away from the hotels and holiday lets, there is an unseen side of Cornwall, where the shifting uncertainties of the future breed...

Marion Deacon sits by the hospital bed of her dying husband, Michael. Outwardly she is, as she says, an unremarkable old woman....