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

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Old Filth and The Man in the Wooden Hat told with bristling tenderness and black humour the stories of that Titan of the Hong...

Atlanta, 1948. In this city, all crime is black and white.

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Complicity
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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...

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The seventy-fifth anniversary edition, with a new introduction by Anthony Quinn.

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In the latest entertaining and hilarious Professor Dr Dr Moritz-Maria Von Igelfeld novel, our hopelessly out-of-touch hero is...

'I ought to tell you at the beginning that I am not quite normal having had a violent experience at the age of nine'
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The latest in the hugely popular 44 Scotland Street series from the worldwide bestselling author, Alexander McCall Smith

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It was here at the Manor House that Norman Blood, captain of England, spent his childhood playing cricket with the vicar's...

Real Life sucks. He's thirty, his dreams of becoming a rock star are long gone, and he's just discovered that responsibility has...

At the age of twenty-nine, Sydney has already been once divorced and once widowed. Trying to find her footing again, she has...

Detective Catherine McLeod was always taught that in Glasgow, they don't do whodunit. They do score-settling, vendettas and petty...

Everyone in Shaker Heights was talking about it that summer: how Isabelle, the last of the Richardson children, had finally gone...

Everyone in Shaker Heights was talking about it that summer: how Isabelle, the last of the Richardson children, had finally gone...

Aged thirteen, Theo Decker, son of a devoted mother and a reckless, largely absent father, survives an accident that otherwise...