~*~and Pour out the Pimm's, pull out the deckchair and lose yourself in this lovely, sweet, summery story!' MILLY JOHNSONand ~*~The heart-warming new novel from theand Sunday Timesand bestselling author, perfect for fans of Carole Matthews, Milly Johnson and Cathy BramleyKateand is on the...

1) Sultry Days On a sultry, rainy Bombay day Nisha, an impressionable teenager, meets God in the college canteen and falls in love with his ragged, bearded looks and crude, streetwise manners. God patronizingly accepts her into his 'group' and it is in this...

10,000 Afghans. 21 Sikh soldiers. One epic battle. On 12 September 1897, 21 soldiers of 36th Sikh regiment stood undeterred as they guarded the post of Saragarhi against the onslaught of almost 10,000 Afghan tribesmen a battle for the ages that ended in them...

100 Ideas that Changed Street Style is a look-by-look dissection of the key ideas that changed the way we dress - from the middle of the 20th century to the present day - explaining the most iconic items of clothing and how they were...

1289.and A rich farmer fears he'll go to hell for cheating his neighbours. His wife wants pilgrim badges to sew into her hat and show off at church. A poor, ragged villager is convinced his beloved cat is suffering in the fires of purgatory...

15 short stories from young women Bangladeshi authors including: Shabnam Nadiya, Abeer Hoque, Tisa Muhaddes, Muniza Manzur, Shazia Omar, Sabrina Fatima Ahmed, Alizeh Ahmed, Iffat Nawaz and others... Daring, edgy and experimental stories looking at the experiences of contemporary life.

1528. A young Franciscan monk travels to Norway to collect a set of scalpels from a barber surgeon with whom he shares a dark and mysterious obsession with the dissection of human corpses. He travels north and settles in a remote village. His deadly...

16-year-old Perry Firekeeper-Birch has every intention of quitting her internship. Being stuck in a museum was never part of her lazy summer plans, but her no-nonsense Aunt Daunis had other ideas. Everything changes when Perry meets 'Warrior Girl', a Native American ancestor whose bones...

1720. Blue Mountains, windward Jamaica. In the sweltering heat Captain Shettlewood leads a troop of British soldiers through the thick trees towards the river. They are hunting slaves who have escaped from the brutal plantations. Their mission: to find them, and kill them.But up...

1830. After a violent storm, a woman is found alone, naked, near death on the Northumberland moors. She has no memory of who she is or how she got there. But she can remember how to help a woman in labour, how to expertly...

1929. George and Serena Pemberton arrive in the wilds of the North Carolina mountains to build a life together in a rural logging town. Unlike any woman the timber empire has ever seen, Serena oversees crews, hunts rattlesnakes and saves her husband's life in...

1942 and the world is at war. It is a war that has already shattered families and devastated countries. But for some, it will also mean the greatest of adventures. In a burns hospital in Sussex, a beautiful young singer performs to a ward...

From the best-selling author ofand The Name of the Roseand andand The Prague Cemetery,and a novel about the murky world of media politics, conspiracy, and murderA newspaper committed to blackmailand andand mud slinging,and rather than reporting the news.and A paranoid editor, walking through the...

1974 and Elena Damiani lives a gilded life. Born to wealth and a noted beauty, no door is closed to her, no man can resist her. At twenty-six, she is already onto her third husband when she meets her love match. But he is...

1988. Frank owns a music shop. It is jam-packed with records of every speed, size and genre. Classical, jazz, punk - as long as it's vinyl he sells it. Day after day Frank finds his customers the music they need.and Then into his life...

2007: at the end of a momentous day, Charlie, Stella and John cross paths under the arches of Paddington Station. As Charlie locks eyes with Stella across the platform, a brief, powerful spark of recognition flashes between them. But they are strangers … aren't...

2008. The California desert. A four-year-old autistic boy, Raj Matharu, disappears in the wilderness, plunging his wealthy New York parents into the surreal public hell of a media witch-hunt. But the desert is inexplicable and miraculous, and the Matharus' fate is bound up with...

2008. The California desert. A four-year-old autistic boy, Raj Matharu, disappears in the wilderness, plunging his wealthy New York parents into the surreal public hell of a media witch-hunt. But the desert is inexplicable and miraculous, and the Matharus' fate is bound up with...

2011. Isabel Montgomery, investigative journalist, is the granddaughter of one of America's most radical lawyers, the daughter of one of America's most famous protesters. She's going to expose the Obama administration's unconstitutional surveillance of its citizens in the New York Times. Forced into hiding...

2016 Goodreads Choice Award-winning poet Amanda Lovelace returns inand the witch doesn't burn in this one -and the boldand second book in her "women are some kind of magic" series.and The witch: supernaturally powerful, inscrutably independent, and now-indestructible. These moving, relatable poems encourage resilience...

2020 has allowed us to pause, observe and self-reflect. We have been provided with the opportunity to shift our perspective, live in the present moment with gratitude, discover the path to our authentic selves, and most importantly, move towards a collective consciousness. 2020: Ripples...

2084 bce: In the great city of Mohenjodaro, along the banks of the Indus, a young man named Prkaa becomes increasingly mistrustful of the growing authority of a cult of priests.455 ce: In the fabled university city of Takshasilla, Buddhamitra, a monk, is distressed...

26 April 1986. Overnight, things fell apart in a quiet Ukrainian town. The steam generator of Reactor Four at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Station malfunctioned during an experiment to produce electricity from residual energy, bringing on an explosion. The resulting blaze lasted several days,...

26-year-old Akash Amin has everything he ever wanted, but as he tries to kickstart his songwriting career and commit to his boyfriend, he is haunted by the painful memories of the first boy he ever loved. When his mother tells him she is selling...

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50th ANNIVERSARY EDITION--WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA Mario Puzo's classic saga of an American crime family that became a global phenomenon--nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read. With its brilliant and brutal portrayal of the...

At the beginning of a new century, Alma Whittaker is born into a perfect Philadelphia winter. Her father, Henry Whittaker, is a bold and charismatic botanical explorer whose vast fortune belies his lowly beginnings as a vagrant in Sir Joseph Banks's Kew Gardens and...

A #1and New York Timesand bestseller and winner of the 2016 Hugo Award for Best Graphic Story! Neil Gaiman'sand The Sandmanand set the standard for mature, lyrical fantasy in the modern comics era. This 30th Anniversary edition ofand The Sandman Vol. 0: Overtureand is...

A 2015 Michael L. Printz Honor Book Winner of the 2014 Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for Fiction

A 21ST CENTURY LOVE STORY AND TOP 10and SUNDAY TIMESand BESTSELLER - THE PERFECT GIFT FOR THE ROMANTIC IN YOUR LIFE THIS CHRISTMAS!'Utter BRILLIANCE . . . I absolutely LOVED it!'and Marian Keyes, bestselling author ofand GROWN UPS'I loved it'and Candice Carty-Williams, bestselling author...

A 52 year-old photographer and a 41 year-old anatomy professor are jurors sequestered during a sensational three-week trial: a toddler murdered by one of his twin sisters. At the court appointed cut-rate motel off the interstate, they fall into an intense, furtive affair, but...

A bad-boy movie star named Jumbo pushes the limits of his reputation when he's accused of rape and murder. When the Boston PD calls on Spencer, he meets Jumbo's young bodyguard, Zebulon Sixkill, and the two form an unlikely alliance. It's a high profile...

A bag travels the universe looking for evil, bigoted civilizations to consume. The machinations of a dark and terrible goddess lead to unexpected outcomes. A girl child is married off in a technologically advanced dystopic world steeped in prejudice and intolerance. A desperate mother...

A BBC Between the Covers Book Club pick andand Sunday Timesand Historical Fiction Book of the Month, for fans ofand PANDORA,and THE ESSEX SERPENTand andand THE NIGHT CIRCUS.Longlisted for the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction 2023.'I just fell in love with it within...

A BBC RADIO 2 BOOKCLUB PICK'Engrossing and original, political and unpredictable, The Silence Project will get people talking' Bernardine EvaristoMonster. Martyr. Mother.On Emilia Morris's thirteenth birthday, her mother Rachel moves into a tent at the bottom of their garden. From that day on, she...

A BBC Radio 4 Book at BedtimeWhen Conrad fails to return home from a science conference, Eleanor guesses he may at last be reacting to her infidelity. Or has he finally tired of his stagnating job in transplant research? Eleanor's own scientific career has...

A beautiful and darkly funny book of linked stories covering two decades in the lives of a group of people on the island of Guernsey'and Belfast TelegraphAnnieand needs to lose her virginity, so she's waiting in a car park forand Paul.Pauland needs drugs for...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2023LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2024LONGLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL AWARD 2023'A beautiful and evocative novel about grief, about growing up, about losing and winning. The people and places in this book will stay with me for...

A beautiful and profound retelling'and - Madeline Miller, author ofand The Song of Achillesand andand Circe'Gives the serpent-headed monster of myth a powerful and haunting humanity'and - Jennifer Saint, author ofand Ariadneand andand Elektra_________________If I told you that I'd killed a man with a...

A beautiful book so filled with sharp longing and perfectly phrased vulnerability that I read it in a reverent hush' Torrey Peters, author ofand Detransition, Baby'Exceptional . . . has flashes of Sally Rooney's CONVERSATIONS WITH FRIENDS, or Halle Butler's THE NEW ME. Sometimes...

A beautiful collection that I both lost and found myself in. Unbelievably exciting stories from some show-stoppingly talented writers.'and Candice Carty-Williams,and author ofand Queenie.Lost love. Forbidden Love. Unrequited love.and Tenderness. Desire. Romance. Passion.Who's Loving You?and is a celebration of love in all its guises...

A beautiful edition of the classic tale,and Oliver Twist.Ebenezer Scrooge is a miserly and mean-spirited old man.He treats family, coworkers, and strangers alike with distaste.But on Christmas Eve he receives a visit from the ghost of his dead business partner, Jacob Marley. Marley warns...

It is the mid-1800s. At Sweet Home in Kentuckhy, an era is ending as slavery comes under attack from the abolitionists. The worlds of Halle and Paul D. are to be destroyed in a cataclysm of torment and agony. The world of Sethe, however,...

A beautiful hardback gift to treasure. This collection brings together all of Arnold Lobel's engaging, warm and funny stories about Frog and Toad, and features a special foreword by Julia Donaldson.A collectable classic treasury that every child should read and own. Julia Donaldson says...

A beautiful hardcover selection of the best works by one of the greatest short story writers in world literatureDuring his most productive decade, the 1880s, the French writer Guy de Maupassant wrote more than three hundred stories, notably including "The Necklace," "Boule de Suif,"...

A beautiful novel . . . reminds us that our streets are thick with history'ROWAN HISAYO BUCHANAN'Both moving and addictive'JOANNA BRISCOE'Terrific'FRANCES QUINNTHREE WOMEN. ONE BUILDING. 111 YEARS . . .East London, 1909. When her family fall on hard times, Ellen finds work in a...

A beautiful seasonal lullaby sure to settle even the most restless of cubs.Winter is on its way. For bears, that means it's time to tuck in for a long sleep. But other forest creatures are still awake, so why can't Small Bear stay up...

A beautiful story about sadness, depression and hope.Blue lives in the darkest depths of the forest. He has long forgotten how to fly, sing and play. The other birds swoop and soar in the sky above him, the sun warming their feathers. But Blue...

A beautiful story of love and second chances, with a remarkable family at its heart, from theand Sunday Timesand bestselling author.So much can change in half a lifetime…and and Thenand At fifteen, George is the foster brother Leah never asked for. As the angry,...