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

Kabul, Afghanistan.

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

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

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

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

Maddy is sixteen. She has loyal friends, a mother with whom she's unusually close, a father she's never met, devoted...

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

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

The two women's eventful lives are intertwined. In the years before the First World War, the girls lose touch when Jeanie runs...

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

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

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

In the burgeoning industrial city of Glasgow in 1817 Jean Campbell - a young, Deaf woman - is witnessed throwing a child into the...

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

'A brilliant and funny read for the apocalyptically-minded' Matt Haig, author of Reasons to Stay Alive
'In a sea of books about...

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

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

The boy is...

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

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

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...

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

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...

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

There's nowhere quite like Piccadilly...

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

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...

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

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