In Joe and Kate Keller's family garden, an apple tree - a memorial to their son Larry, lost in the Second World War - has been...

Asser's Life of King Alfred, written in 893, is a revealing account of one of the greatest of medieval kings. Composed by a monk...

The Agricola is both a portrait of Julius Agricola - the most famous governor of Roman Britain and Tacitus' well-loved and...

Losing the love of your life once is tragic. Twice looks like carelessness . . .

Rachel Walsh is a survivor: she survived...

Brendan has always lived a careful, constrained life. A salesman who never liked the work, he's a man who has stayed in his...

Advertisements for Myself is a comprehensive collection of the best of Norman Mailer's essays, stories, interviews and journalism...

Featuring poems scattered over nearly thirty years of writing and salvaged from the diaries 'authored' by one Sue Townsend, this...

Seven Londoners are invited to an opulent dinner party. From a brutal hedge-funder to a lovelorn barrister, a Polish footballer...

Mercenary. Survivor. Queen.

Casia Greythorne's world has been shattered. Still reeling from a devastating loss and the...

Britain in the early eighteenth century: an introduction that is both informative and imaginative, reliable and entertaining. To...

The incredible memoir of Elaine Brown - the first woman leader of the Black Panthers

'Here I was, a woman, proclaiming supreme...

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's A Study in Scarlet is the literary debut of the world's most famous fictional detective, Sherlock...

A collectible new Penguin Classics series: stunning, clothbound editions of ten favourite poets, which present each poet's most...

Spanning the origins of the Earth to the outcome of the First World War, this is a brilliantly compelling account of the...

Liverpool, 1944

Though they may be posted miles apart, Cadi and Jez's love for one another is stronger than ever - until Cadi...

Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have...

A Moment of War is the powerful and harrowing final book in Laurie Lee's acclaimed trilogy that began with Cider with Rosie...

Even the approach to Christmas fails to excite restless Agnes Conway, the twenty-two-year-old manager of the sweet and...

The last time anyone saw Lucia Bernardi, she was driving at top speed away from a Swiss villa - leaving the body of her murdered...

In a rising Saudi Arabian city, far from weary, recession-scarred America, a struggling businessman pursues a last-ditch attempt...

Once I had four brothers. Three of them are dead. I am next.
Felix Ashe is sure of only one thing. In thirty days, on his...

Gods have fallen. A queen is rising.
And the world will never be the same.
The throne of the Kethran Empire lies empty, its...

The sixth heartwarming, feel-good instalment in the much-loved Railway Girls series!

Manchester, 1942. There are surprises in...

A Christmas Carol has had an enduring influence on the way we think about the traditions of Christmas ever since it was first...

A sizzling drama of desire, avarice and deception set in the American Deep South, Tennessee Williams's Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is...

Sometimes friendship crosses a line . . .



A group of close friends, their bonds forged at the nursery gates two decades...

'The jurisdiction of a good man extends to the end of the world.'

Commander Sam Vimes of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch is having...

Sally Diamond cannot understand why what she did was so strange. She was only doing what her father told her to do, to put him...

A baffling case. A mysterious inheritance.

It starts when a man's arm is fished out of Paris's Canal Saint-Martin. Then the...

Trust no one.

It is six months since the Arcadia set sail for the first time in forty years. But this wasn't the freedom the...