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'Once alone in his office, he went over and opened the window as if being in charge of this case made him gasp for a breath of...

'Leaning on the banisters, Madame Maigret watched her husband going heavily downstairs . . . what the newspapers didn't know was...

First published in 1869, Lorna Doone is the story of John Ridd, a farmer who finds love amid the religious and social turmoil of...

In Living to Tell the Tale Gabriel Garcia Marquez - winner of the 1982 Nobel Prize for Literature and author of One Hundred Years...

The residents of Churchwood have never needed their bookshop, or its community, more. But when the bookshop comes under threat at...

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

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Shortlisted for both the Man Booker Prize and the Guardian First Book Award, and published here as a Penguin Essential for the...

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...

Quirky, charming and suffused the footloose spirit of the sixties, this is the irresistible story of an English woman who decides...

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...

Anne Louvet needs to escape from Paris and from memories she cannot face. In the year 1936 she arrives at the faded Hotel du Lion...

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

In his mind's eye he would see that slim figure in the striking clothes, those wide eyes the colour of forget-me-not, the pert...

The latest novel in the globally bestselling Alex Cross series.

Alex Cross ventures into the rugged Montana wilderness - where...

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...

In a time more turbulent than any of us could have ever imagined, a woman is attempting to write a book about prophecy in the...

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