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Synopsis Execution by S.J. Parris is a gripping historical thriller set in 1586, featuring the heretic monk and spy, Giordano Bruno. The novel de...

Synopsis An unforgettable recreation of life in wartime, and of the tragic fate of Poland in the 20th Century. A story of sabotage, betrayal &...

Synopsis The Winner of The Orange Prize 2012. Greece in the age of heroes. Patroclus, an awkward young prince, has been exiled to the court of Ki...

Synopsis A Mercy is Toni Morrison's ninth novel. It was published in 2008. Set in colonial America in the late 17th century, it is the story of a E...

Synopsis Number 1 Bestseller. Shardlake #6 England, 1546: King Henry VIII is slowly, painfully dying. His Protestant and Catholic councillors are e...

Synopsis A Sunday Times Thriller of the Month. Visionary in scale, and the first contemporary novel in over a decade from number one worldwide best...

Synopsis Winner of The Costa Novel Award 2011. An enthralling tale of an extraordinary year in pre-revolutionary Paris from the critically acclai...

Synopsis One May evening in London, as a result of a chance encounter and a split-second decision, the young climatologist Adam Kindred loses every...

Synopsis The astonishing and epic novel that won the 2013 Man Booker Prize. It is 1866, and Walter Moody has come to make his fortune upon the Ne...

Synopsis Shortlisted for The 2019 McIllvanney Prize. A New Statesman Book of The Year. A vivid and gripping historical crime novel set in 19th ce...

Synopsis Longlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger 2022. Shortlisted for the Theakston Old Peculiar Crime Novel of the Year 2022. From the brothels and ...

Synopsis The Sunday Times Paperback of The Year 2023. In this novel, the bestselling author of Munich and V2 tells the story of the greatest manhun...

 Synopsis A Guardian Best Book of The 21st Century. Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction and the Costa Novel Award. Pat Barker continues...

Synopsis The Great War took much more than lives. It robbed a generation of friends, lovers and futures. In Freddie Watson's case, it took his belo...

Synopsis Multi-Award Winner. The Red Umbrella is a moving tale of a 14-year-old girl's journey from Cuba to America as part of Operation Pedro Pa...

Synopsis Ireland: A Novel by Frank Delaney. Bestselling author Frank Delaney sweeps us off to Ireland with a stunning new novel that captures the...

Synopsis A BBC Radio 2 Book Club Choice 2019 & The Sunday Times Bestseller. The Doll Factory by Elizabeth MacNeal is the intoxicating story o...

Synopsis Written with Imogen Robertson. Subtitled : Divided by War. United by Love. Ballantyne #6 An epic story of love, betrayal, courage and war ...

Synopsis Nominated for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction in 2014. A soldier on the Russian Front marries a photograph of a woman he has never...

Synopsis From the bestselling author of The Dovekeepers comes a love story about one of history's most captivating 'invisible' women: Rachel, the...

Synopsis A TLS Book of The Year. Who was the real George Eliot? In Love with George Eliot is a glorious debut novel which tells the compelling st...

Synopsis In a remote part of Iceland, a boy and his friend Barður join a boat to fish for cod. A winter storm surprises them out at sea and Barðu...

Synopsis Vespasian #7. AD 58: Rome is in turmoil once more. Emperor Nero has set his heart on a new wife but to clear a path for her, he must firs...

Synopsis Winner Costa Book Awards 2017. Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2018. Reservoir 13 tells the story of many lives haunted by one family's ...