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At thirty a woman has a directness in her eye. Juliet Montague did anyhow. She knew exactly what she wanted. She wanted to buy a...

After Mia Fredricksen's husband of thirty years asks for a pause - so he can indulge his infatuation with a young French...

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In 1944, a German Jewish refugee is sent to Wales to interview Rudolf Hess; in Snowdonia, a seventeen-year-old girl, the daughter...

A septuagenarian contract killer, a chronic hypochondriac, two zombie-creating comedians, a good Samaritan and a man called...

The scandal that rocked society and defied convention.

In the early 1900s polite Chicago society was rocked by terrible...

At the age of twelve, under the Wind Moon, Will is given a horse, a key, and a map, and sent alone into the Indian Nation to run...

Tokyo, 1940. While Japan's war against China escalates, young Yuji Takano clings to his cocooned life: his beloved evenings of...

In a world where people slaughter the innocent without mercy or retribution, how can we have faith in humanity, or the...

In 1789 in Sydney Cove, the remotest penal colony of the British Empire, a group of convicts and one of their captors unite to...

A year of bones, of grave-dirt, relentless work. Of mummified corpses and chanting priests. A year of rape, suicide, sudden...

Mercury is at once a tense psychological drama and a taut emotional thriller exploring love, obsession, and the deceits that pull...

Gunnar Kampen grows up in Reykjavik during the Second World War in a household fiercely opposed to Hitler and Nazism. A caring...

As the sun begins to set over Louisiana one October day in 1943, a young black man faces the final hours of his life: at...

Jeanie Masterson has a gift: she can hear the recently dead and give voice to their final wishes and revelations. Inherited from...

Five toasts. Five people. One lifetime.

'I'm here to remember - all that I have been and all that I will never be...

One September afternoon in 1999, teenagers Matthew, Zoe, and Duncan Lang are walking home from school when they discover a boy...

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A brilliant collection of seven original stories by award-winning authors, inspired by different concepts of love.

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Ben Short has a successful career in advertising, a flat in a trendy part of London, a flashy motorbike. But after years of...

In the shadow of Auschwitz, a flamboyant German industrialist grew into a living legend to the Jews of Cracow. He was a...

In this gripping novel, Melvyn Bragg brings an extraordinary episode in English history to fresh, urgent life.

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From the author of Carter Beats the Devil comes a panoramic tale of power and stardom, ambition and dreams that reaches from...

Cowan's beautifully drawn, multi award-winning first novel of love in the hostile climate of modern British society

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With her marriage prospects ruined in the wake of her father's financial decline, teenage Varina Howell decides her best option...

In the summer of 1997, four people reach a turning point: Alice Valentine, who lies gravely ill in her West Country home; her two...

Iris Vegan, a graduate student living alone and impoverished in New York, encounters four strong characters who fascinate and in...

Youth is wasted on the young, isn't it?

In this version of London, there is a small, private clinic. Behind its layers of...

The last time Ree saw her father he didn t bring food or money but promised he d be back soon with a paper sack of cash and a...

Combining love, lust, murder and lots of beetles in a thrilling novel, Ned Beauman has created a page-turning debut full of wild...