The story of a family and a special dress, handed down from mother to daughter, during times of fortune, loss, tragedy and victory, by the world's favourite storyteller, Danielle Steel.The Deveraux family were among the most important members of 1920s San Francisco society, and...

The Story of a New Name,and the second book of the Neapolitan Quartet, picks up the story whereand My Brilliant Friendand left off.and Lila has recently married and made her entree into the family business; Elena, meanwhile, continues her studies and her exploration of...

The story of the walking and talking puppet Pinocchio is one of the best-loved children's tales of all time.Carved by old Gepetto, Pinocchio has an enormous nose which grows even longer whenever he tells a lie. Pinocchio is such a scamp that he gets...

THE STORY OF TRACY BEAKERI'm Tracy Beaker. This is a book all about me. I'd read it if I were you. It's the most incredible dynamic heart-rending story. Honest.SHORTLISTED FOR THE SMARTIES PRIZE AND THE CARNEGIE MEDALTHE BED AND BREAKFAST STARI'm Elsa, and I'm...

The Street of Mists

The stunning conclusion to the beloved Practical Magic series

The stunning debut novel from one of the most creative artists of our generation, Bobby Hall, a.k.a. Logic."Bobby Hall has crafted a mind-bending first novel, with prose that is just as fierce and moving as his lyrics. Supermarket is like Naked Lunch meets One...

The stunning finale to the award-winning Wayfarers series by Becky Chambers, author of the belovedand The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet.When a freak technological failure halts traffic to and from the planet Gora, three strangers are thrown together unexpectedly, with seemingly nothing...

The stunning sequel toand Parable of the Sower, the NEW YORK TIMES-bestselling novel.'In the ongoing contest over which dystopian classic is most applicable to our time... for sheer peculiar prescience, Butler's novel may be unmatched'and NEW YORKER'Octavia Butler was playing out our very real...

The stunning sequel to Vicious, from The New York Times bestselling author of A Darker Shade of MagicSydney Clarke once had Serena-beloved sister, betrayed enemy, powerful ally. But now she's alone, except for her thrice-dead dog, Dol. And then there's Victor, who thinks Sydney...

The successful writer Oki has reached middle age and is filled with regrets. He returns to Kyoto to find Otoko, a young woman with whom he had a terrible affair many years before, and discovers that she is now a painter, living with a...

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER, NOW A RICHARD AND JUDY BOOK CLUB PICK 'Clever and compelling. You'll love THE CHILD' Clare Mackintosh, author of LET ME LIE 'An engrossing, irresistible story about the coming to light of a long-buried secret. An absolutely fabulous read -...

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'Delicious' Nigella Lawson'Clever and beguiling'and Guardian'Sublime and immersive' Jojo MoyesErica is eighteen and ready for freedom. It's the summer of 1960 when she lands on the sun-baked Greek island of Hydra where she is swept up in a circle of bohemian...

THEand SUNDAY TIMESand BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE 2023 PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTIONLONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2022ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVOURITE BOOKS OF 2022Trustand is a sweeping puzzle of a novel about power, greed, love and a search for the truth that begins in 1920s...

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR IS BACK!Her dream home will become her worst nightmare…A strange encounterNeve comes across a troubled woman called Isabelle on Waterloo Bridge late one night. Isabelle forces a parcel into Neve's hands and jumps to her death in the icy...

THEand SUNDAY TIMESand NOVEL OF THE YEAR 2020From the prize-winning author ofand West, a collision between old and new, east and west, in a former British hill station in contemporary South India.'A compelling read. Carys Davies has an amazing gift'-and Penelope LivelyFleeing the dark...

THEand SUNDAY TIMESand TOP BESTSELLER#1and NEW YORK TIMESand BESTSELLERSHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZELONGLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE'An utterly mesmerising novel..I absolutely loved this book' Bernardine Evaristo, winner of the Booker Prize 2019'Epic' Kiley Reid,and O, The Oprah MagazineThe Vignes twin sisters will always be...

THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER 'If you only read one book this year, Guilty Women won't disappoint. It will leave you breathless' The Express 'Guilty Women's stamped it's razor sharp, blood-stained stiletto heel firmly in the lead to be 2022's book of the...

The Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller:'Moggach is at the height of her powers with this book, which moves from a beautifully observed comedy of middle-class life to an immensely moving celebration of two imperfect marriages' Sunday Times'A cracking, crackling social comedy, with some brilliant...

The tale of a lost mouse who finds a new homeThursday the Mouse fell from a balloon having just escaped from the Home for Waif-Mice and Stray-Mice. The Peck family of church mice adopt him and give him his name - Thursday - because...

The Taleyken race from the Planet Arplon, located in the Cygnus Constellation, first visited Earth in 1856. They had no idea the place they buried their mineral resource, the Hextanlo, will become a lively and active city of Karachi in Pakistan. Now, the Taleyken...

The Tempest isone of Shakespeare's enduringly popular and much-studied later plays. The introduction has been extended to focus on new scholarship about the play's first production and to take account of major theatre and film versions since first publication in 1999, including Julie Taymor's...

The ten stories collected in this volume demonstrate Tolstoy's artistic prowess displayed over five decades - experimenting with prose styles and drawing on his own experiences with humour, realism and compassion. Inspired by his experiences in the army, 'The Two Hussars' contrasts a dashing...

The third exciting entry in Rick Riordan's best-selling Heroes of Olympus series is now a graphic novel!In The Son of Neptune, Percy, Hazel, and Frank met in Camp Jupiter, the Roman equivalent of Camp Half-Blood, and traveled to the land beyond the gods to...

THE THIRD GEORGE SMILEY NOVELAlec Leamas is tired. It's the 1960s, he's been out in the cold for years, spying in the shadow of the Berlin Wall for his British masters. Now Control wants to bring him in at last - but only after...

THE THIRTEENTH INSTALLMENT OF THE MUCH-LOVED ISABEL DALHOUSIE SERIESWhen Isabel Dalhousie and her husband Jamie book a table at an expensive Edinburgh restaurant, she finds herself battling with her conscience. Lately, there has been a lull in work for theand Review of Applied Ethics,...

The Thought Police, Doublethink, Newspeak, Big Brother - 1984 itself: these terms and concepts have moved from the world of fiction into our everyday lives. They are central to our thinking about freedom and its suppression; yet they were newly created by George Orwell...

THE TIMESand SCIENCE FICTION BOOK OF THE MONTH Her fiction is a breath-taking piece of a cinematic art … powerful and graceful' - Bong Joon-ho, Oscar-winning director ofand Parasite'Dazzling' -and The TimesA stunning collection of short fiction by one of South Korea's most treasured...

The Tirukkural (honoured Kural) is one of the world's greatest literary and philosophical masterpieces. Composed in Tamil by Tiruvalluvar sometime between 2 BCE and 5 CE, its succinct couplets seek to explain and guide the reader through life's various situations: political, spiritual, domestic and...

The Toy Story 3 Sound Book: New Friends is an interactive sound book that invites children to join Sheriff Woody, Buzz Lightyear, and the gang as they enter a brand-new adventure with a brand-new friend, Bonnie. Children ages 3 to 5 can enjoy pressing...

The Tuesday Night Club is a venue where locals challenge Miss Marple to solve recent crimes…One Tuesday evening a group gathers at Miss Marple's house and the conversation turns to unsolved crimes…The case of the disappearing bloodstains; the thief who committed his crime twice...

The unabridged version of this definitive work is now available in this highly designed jacketed hardcover with a new introduction by Odysseus Makridis.Published around 380 BCE,and Plato's most famous workand explores the idea of justness, among other things, through a Socratic dialogue. Considered to...

The unfinished manuscript of The First Man was discovered in the wreckage of car accident in which Camus died in 1960. Although it was not published for over thirty years, it was an instant bestseller when it finally appeared in 1994. The 'first man'...

The uplifting Japanese bestsellerTHE PERFECT GIFT FOR CAT LOVERS'Compassionate and touching'and DAILY MAIL'Totally beguiling'and OBSERVERPerfect fans ofThe Travelling Cat Chroniclesand andand Convenience Store Woman____________On the outskirts of Tokyo, local cats weave their way through the lives and homes of their owners as they navigate...

The Vintage Classics Europeans series - with covers provided by textile design firm Wallace Sewell, these are must-have editions of European masterpieces, celebrating the warp and weft of a shared literary treasury.TRANSLATED FROM THE SPANISH BY EDITH GROSSMANWidely regarded as the world's first modern...

The Wedding Day is a sparkling romantic comedy from the bestselling author of A Rural Affair and A Crowded Marriage, Catherine Alliott. Annie O'Harran is getting married . . . all over again A divorced, single mum, Annie is about to tie the knot...

The wedding is tomorrow. If they can only get through today...Long-time couple Megan Givens and Tom Prescott are preparing for what should be the happiest weekend of their lives. But their plans for a perfect wedding are ruined when a huge fight causes them...

The Whipple family is known far and wide for having broken more world records than any other family on Earth. The only blight on the family name? Eleven-year-old Arthur. Unlike his twelve brothers and sisters, whose achievements range from Most Accomplished Four-Year Old Painter...

The Whittiersand is a heartwarming story about the importance of family, home and being true to yourself, from the world's favourite author Danielle Steel.Connie and Preston Whittier raised their six children in a once-grand Manhattan mansion. The children are now adults, but the house...

The woman's place of power within each of us is neither white nor surface; it is dark, it is ancient, and it is deepThe revolutionary writings of Audre Lorde gave voice to those 'outside the circle of this society's definition of acceptable women'. Uncompromising,...

THE WORD-OF-MOUTH SENSATIONTHE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERA RICHARD andamp; JUDY BOOKCLUB SELECTIONNOW A NUMBER ONEand NETFLIX SERIES'Timely and compelling' Shari Lapena'Impressive' The Times'Gripping' Observer'Sensational' Clare MackintoshA high-profile marriage thrust into the spotlight.A prosecutor who believes justice has been a long time coming.and A scandal that...

The words of ancient Chinese philosophers have influenced other thinkers across the world for more than 2,000 years and continue to shape our ideas today.and The Art of War andamp; Other Classics of Eastern Philosophyand includes translations of Sun Tzu'sand Art of War, Lao-Tzu'sand...

The Wordsworth Classics' Shakespeare Series presents a newly-edited sequence of William Shakespeare's works. The Textual editing takes account of recent scholarship while giving the material a careful reappraisal.Hamlet is not only one of Shakespeare's greatest plays, but also the most fascinatingly problematical tragedy in...

'The work of Shakespeare is virtually infinite' Jorge Luis BorgesA jealous king, convinced that his wife has been unfaithful and is having another man's baby, imprisons her and puts her on trial. The child is abandoned to die, but when she is found and...

The world of books can seem like a trackless forest stretching to the horizon in all directions, full of wrong turns, dead ends, and pitfalls. But it is in fact full of treasure, andand Indispensable Readingand is a map to books that can provide...

The writings of a first-rate scientist and daring adventurer, and a major inspiration for Elizabeth Gilbert's bestselling novel The Signature of All Things John Cook led three famous expeditions to the Pacific Ocean between 1768 and 1779. In voyages that ranged from the Antarctic...

The young D'Artagnan and the legendary musketeers Athos, Porthos and Aramis are 'the inseparables' - ready to sacrifice everything in a duel or game of dice in order to defend their honour or that of the King and Queen of France. Handsome and hot-tempered,...

There is in this world a kind of desire like stinging pain'A Japanese teenager is overcome with longing for his male classmate. He imagines his body punctured with arrows, like the body of St Sebastian in the painting that obsesses him. Over and over...

There is only one book to a man,' Steinbeck wrote ofand East of Eden, his most ambitious novel. Set in the rich farmland of the Salinas Valley, California, this powerful, often brutal novel, follows the intertwined destinies of two families - the Trasks and...

'There was a glory in the world- life was panting for his embrace' Eugene Gant, born in the shadow of the mountains to hard-drinking stone-cutter Oliver and entrepreneurial Eliza, grows up in small-town America. Both lonely outsider and sensitive observer of American life, Eugene...