The twenty-fourth book in the multi-million copy bestselling and perennially adored No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series.

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In 1804, Colonel Aaron Burr, Vice-President of the United States, shot and killed Alexander Hamilton in a duel. Three years...

In the hazardous fictional terrain of his historical novels, Gore Vidal is never especially kind to American history in general,...

Ernest Ralph Gorse's heartlessness and lack of scruple are matched only by the inventiveness and panache with which he swindles...

Twelve-year-old Bird Gardner lives a quiet existence with his loving father, a former linguist who now shelves books in a...

Professor Dr Dr Moritz-Maria von Igelfeld and his colleagues at the University of Regensburg's Institute of Romance Philology...

History is gossip,' says a protagonist in Washington, D.C., 'but the trick is determining which gossip is history.' It is a trick...

Vidal's historical novel set in the 5th century BC and narrated by Cyrus Spitama, son of a Persian prince and Greek sorceress,...

Gore Vidal's fictional recreation of the Roman Empire teetering on the crux of Christianity and ruled by an emperor who was an...

Major Sinclair Yeates leaves England to work as an Irish Resident Magistrate convinced that two and two make four. But as he...

'Beyond the fact that it was, in face of a vivid and calamitous ending, to reveal from his own experience the ardent splendours...

The Midnight Bell, a pub on the Euston Road, is the pulse of this brilliant and compassionate trilogy. It is here where the...

From the award-winning author of Curtain Call, Freya and Our Friends in Berlin comes a sweeping story of art and love through the...

On Such A Full Sea takes Chang-rae Lee's elegance of prose, his masterly storytelling, and his long-standing interests in...

West Kensington - grey area of rot, and caretaking, and cat-slinking basements. West Kensington - drab asylum for the driven and...

In Killing Monica Bushnell spoofs and skewers her way through pop culture, celebrity worship, fame and even the meaning of life...

Guy de la Bedoyere's gripping narrative history gives a sense of what it was like to be a soldier in the army that brought the...

Rome was first ruled by kings, then became a republic. But in the end, after conquering the world, the Republic collapsed. Rome...

Dominion tells the epic story of how those in the West came to be what they are, and why they think the way they do. Ranging from...

A new edition of Primo Levi’s classic memoir of the Holocaust, with an introduction by David Baddiel, author of Jews Don’t Count.

In perfect Brookmyre tradition this new thriller featuring Jack Parlabane contains a lot of body fluids, the Establishment at its...

New Yorker Danny is running from something. A loner who cannot bear to be apart from his Wi-Fi connection, he is in need of...

Throughout her career, prize-winning novelist Jane Gardam has been writing glorious short stories, each one hallmarked with all...

She was found hanging in a dingy London bedsit with a blood orange in her mouth. Diane Heybridge, a young woman without a past or...

Sam Morpeth is growing up way too fast, left to fend for a younger sister when their mother goes to prison and watching her...

From the hilltop he could see London, stretched towards the hills of Kent and Surrey. The sky was beginning to pale at the edges....

On the face of it, Ben Bradford is your standard Wall Street hot shot - Junior partner in a legal firm, 6 figure income, wife and...

The barren, beautiful Cumbrian fells provide the bewitching setting for the adventures of Bill and Harry, two children who find...

During one glorious summer between the wars, the realities of life and the sexual ritual dance of the adult world creep into the...

Anointed as the chosen one when just a young shepherd boy, David will rise to be king, grasping the throne and establishing his...