A young woman, Dr Graciela Saddiq, arrives to work at a zoo in a city soon to be at war.

Of all the animals, she is...

Whether he's initiating a coup d'etat against new regulations with the residents, or forging a bond with the 98-year old who once...

This book is a self-help book. Its objective, as it says on the cover, is to show you how to get filthy rich in rising Asia. And...

It's 1936, war is brewing, tempers are running high, and by his thirteenth birthday, Sheldon Horowitz has been orphaned - twice....

An inspiring memoir of finding strength and resilience from the former England Lioness.

From the football cages of East London...

The moving and heartwarming story of one woman trying to make it on her own, from the bestselling author of The Open Door

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The old king Henry IV, sick and weary, must send out his forces - including the unruly Falstaff - to meet another rebellion that...

Grandmothers is the story of three very different women and their relationship with the younger generation: fiercely independent...

Twenty-one year old Wang Er, stationed in a remote mountain commune, spends his days herding oxen, napping and dreaming of losing...

A reticent personnel manager living with his mother, Mr Newman shares the prejudices of his times and of his neighbours - and...

Self-consciously staging itself in the psychotherapy sessions of a disturbed young man, Peter Shaffer's Equus is a shocking...

John Updike was always as much a poet as a storyteller and the poems in this, his final collection, celebrate the everyday, even...

The first Nought Prime Minister, Toney Durbridge, is about to go on trial for the murder of notorious ganglord, Dan Jeavons....

Eclipse was the code name given by the Allies to the occupation of Germany. Moorehead's book describes his experiences in Sicily...

In the aftermath of the uprising, the people of Silo 18 are coming to terms with a new order.

Some embrace the change, others...

Samuel Delany is one of the most radical and influential science fiction writers of our age, who reinvented the genre with his...

Nefyn has always been an enigma, even to her brother Joseph with whom she lives in a small cottage above a blustery...

The twisted maze of Venice's canals has always been shrouded in mystery. Even the celebrated opera house, La Fenice, has seen its...

Marooned in a sprawling farmhouse in Norfolk, teenage Linda Radlett feels herself destined for greater things. She longs for...

Garcia... , Штоль...

Some loves are cursed... others are dangerous.
Ridley Duchannes will be the first to tell you that she's a bad girl. She's Dark....

From the author of North and South and Mary Barton, Elizabeth Gaskell's Cranford is a standalone publication of Elizabeth...

The seventh heart-warming, uplifting instalment in the much-loved Railway Girls series is available to pre-order...

You can run away from your life.
But you can't run away from murder.
When her family tragedy is splashed across the newspapers,...

Colditz Castle: a forbidding Gothic tower on a hill in Nazi Germany. You may have heard about the prisoners and their daring and...

A classic of postwar literature, a small masterpiece of humour, humanity and heroism from one of the best Czech writers

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An opium addict is lost in the jungle; young men wage war against an empire of mutants; a handsome young pirate faces his...

Gratton... , Ireland...

An assassin, a soldier, a prince . . . and a deadly game of power, where no one knows the rules. Prepare to enter the world of...

In Candide, Voltaire threw down an audacious challenge to the philosophical views of the Enlightenment to create one of the most...

The authoritative and fascinating history of the rise and fall of the state-owned British Rail

British Rail wasn't how we're...

Eleanor Bennett won't let her secrets die with her . . .

When Eleanor's estranged children Benny and Byron reunite for her...