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

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

A rich, bighearted debut that takes us from working-class Staten Island in the wake of the September 11th attacks to moneyed...

The Great Depression, 1929.
When Jacob Jankowski, recently orphaned and utterly adrift, jumps onto a passing train, he enters a...

Simsion... , Buist Anne

Zoe, a sometime artist, is from California. Martin, an engineer, is from Yorkshire. Both have ended up in picturesque Cluny, in...

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

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...

Masha's life has stopped. Once a spirited, independent woman with a rebellious streak, her life has been forever changed by a...

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

Paris, 1939
Odile Souchet is obsessed with books, and her new job at the American Library in Paris - with its thriving community...

A spellbinding novel combining Scottish folklore with hidden history, by the Sunday Times bestselling author Sally...

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...

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

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

Meet the 'Keeper of Lost Things'...
Once a celebrated author of short stories now in his twilight years, Anthony Peardew has...

Scotland, 1950s
Walter MacMillan is bewitched by the clever, glamorous Jean Thompson and can't believe his luck when she agrees...

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

Nothing is as permanent as it appears...

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

In December 2018, after fifty years of belly-laughs, energy and outrage, Billy Connolly announced his retirement from live...

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

Tilly was a bright, outgoing little girl who liked playing with ghosts and matches. She loved fizzy drinks, swear words, fish...

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

'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...

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

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

There's nowhere quite like Piccadilly...

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

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

Jane Austen's funniest novel is also her least known - until now.
Impossibly beautiful, disarmingly witty, and completely...

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

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

When twenty-seven-year-old Joan Bergstrom sends a fan letter - as well as a gift of saffron - to fifty-nine-year-old Imogen...

An emotionally powerful novel about four women and the incredible strength it takes to live a life made invisible by...