I genuinely could not put this down'and - Stacey Halls, author ofand Mrs England'A tour de force of a gothic thriller. I devoured it'and - Gillian McAllister, author ofand Wrong Place, Wrong Time'Taut, propulsive, beautifully done'and - Susan Stokes-Chapman, author ofand PandoraFrom Elizabeth Macneal,...

I learnt to love like a man-to love without feelings. And I shall never forget this lesson.' Matsyagandha, Daseyi, Yojanagandha - the queen of Hastinapur, Satyavati. Abandoned as a baby, preyed on by a rishi, she hardens herself, determined that the next time she...

I love this book so much" - Adam Silvera, #1and New York Timesand bestselling author ofand They Both Die at the End.A sweeping romantic novel fromand New York Timesand bestselling author David Arnold about the power of soulmates and love.Evan Taft has plans. Take...

WATERSTONES FICTION BOOK OF THE MONTH FOR OCTOBER 2024THE MILLION-COPY BESTSELLERBARACK OBAMA'S BOOK OF THE YEAR PICKAMAZON.COM NO.1 BOOK OF THE YEAR'I loved this book'and BONNIE GARMUS'A generous, compassionate book about the power of love and community'and LOUISE KENNEDY'I can't recommend this one highly...

I seemed to be seeing double. I saw two Edies instead of one - but they weren't the same.'Edie isand fascinatedand by Victorian times, and she's just desperate to be cast in the lead role of her drama club production of Oliver. When she's...

'I thought I had made myself clear. I want something that conveys her majesty, her bloodline. Do you understand? She is no ordinary mortal. Treat her thus.'Florence, the 1560s. Lucrezia, third daughter of Cosimo de' Medici, is free to wander the palazzo at will,...

'I was completely spellbound' - RUTH HOGAN'An absolute feast of a book, which will keep you engrossed' RED magazineSome say the river drowned her...Some say it brought her back to lifeOn a dark midwinter's night in an ancient inn on the Thames, the regulars...

I Was There... Escape From The Blitz is the vividly imagined tale of young Betty as she is evacuated from her home in London to the home of the formidable Lady Florence Musgrave. Betty must get used to life in the country, but she's...

I Was There... is a perfect introduction for younger readers into stories from the past, allowing children to imagine that they were really there. I Was There... Alone in the Trenches tells the incredible true story of a young girl lost in the trenches...

 A gorgeous, sweeping epic'and ANN NAPOLITANO'A master of prose'WASHINGTON POST One of my favourite writers'and ROXANE GAY Spectacular'and JOANNE SEFTON I didn't want it to end'and SARA SHERIDANA breathtaking historical novel following the incredible construction of the Panama Canal and casting light on...

If this whole series existed right now, I'd tear through it to the exclusion of everything else in my life."and -Teen Librarian ToolboxThe Davenports are one of the few Black families of immense wealth and status in a changing United States, their fortune made...

If you betray a Fellowship you are a dead man... Raven and the Wolfpack plough the sea-road in pursuit of the Saxon traitor, Ealdred, who has left the Fellowship for dead and fled to the Frankish Emperor Charlemagne and the promise of untold riches....

If you love the Bridgertons, wait until you discover the Blydons . . .This is the witty, delightful second book in Julia Quinn's first ever Regency romance trilogy.Lady Arabella Blydon has both beauty and a brain, and she's tired of men. When a suitor...

I'll show you what a woman can do . . . I was swept away by lush, evocative prose. An unforgettable, moving and important story told with great skill and care' JENNIFER SAINT'An exhilarating read. Gripping, captivating, and consistently enlightening' KATY HESSEL'Outstanding. A powerful...

Impossible to put down while you're reading, and impossible to forget about when you've finished' GlamourAfter a gruelling job interview where she was interrogated about everything from her political leanings to her family background, Sabrina Mahfouz realised that one unspoken question had pervaded her entire...

Imprintand amazingand womenand onand yourand memoryand in this simple memory match game.and A new game from the multi-million copy bestselling phenomenon Little People, BIG DREAMS:and discover inspiring role models from the award-winning book series and learn as you play!and Packaged in a sturdy gift...

In 1353, Giovanni Boccaccio wrote “The Decameron : one hundred nested tales told by a group of young men and women passing the time at a villa outside Florence while waiting out the gruesome Black Death, a plague that killed more than 25 million...

In 1897 in the princely state of Sherpur, Feroza Begum, beautiful and wilful, defies her family to attend the sawani celebrations at Nawab Shams Ali Khan's Benazir Palace. Feroza is kidnapped and detained in the Nawab's glittering harem, her husband is forced to divorce...

In 1900 Lady Anna Winterbourne travels to Egypt where she falls in love with Sharif, and Egyptian Nationalist utterly committed to his country's cause. A hundred years later, Isabel Parkman, an American divorcee and a descendant of Anna and Sharif, goes to Egypt, taking...

In 1929 young bride Mehar struggles with her family's expectations whilst seventy years later her great-grandson discovers what her story can teach him about his own path.'A gorgeous, gripping read' Kamila Shamsie'A multi-generational masterpiece'and Daily MailMehar, a young bride in rural Punjab, is trying...

In 1938 one figure received more press coverage than Mussolini, Hitler or Roosevelt. He was a cultural icon and a world-class athlete - and an undersized, crooked-legged racehorse by the name of Seabiscuit.

In 1942, Lale Sokolov arrived in Auschwitz-Birkenau. He was given the job of tattooing the prisoners marked for survival - scratching numbers into his fellow victims' arms in indelible ink to create what would become one of the most potent symbols of the Holocaust.Waiting...

In 1948 Najin and Calvin Cho, with their young daughter Miran, travel from South Korea to the United States in search of new opportunities. Wary of the challenges ahead, Najin and Calvin make the difficult decision to leave their other daughter, Inja, behind with...

In 480 BC, Xerxes, the King of Persia, led an invasion of mainland Greece. Its success should have been a formality. For seventy years, victory - rapid, spectacular victory - had seemed the birthright of the Persian Empire. In the space of a single...

In a dangerous world nothing is straightforward. Not even murder. Judd…knows his stuff when it comes to the milieu of espionage.'and The Times An elegant and informed British espionage novel.'and Financial Times Authentic, clever and wonderfully entertaining.'and Sir Richard Dearlove, former head of MI6and...

In a quiet coastal village, Irina spends her days restoring furniture, passing the time in peace and hiding away from the world. A family secret, long held and never discussed, casts a dark shadow and Irina chooses to withdraw into her work. When an...

In a small town in western Nigeria, four young brothers - the youngest is nine, the oldest fifteen - use their strict father's absence from home to go fishing at a forbidden local river. They encounter a dangerous local madman who predicts that the...

Inand A Thousand Ships, broadcaster and classicist Natalie Haynes retells the story of the Trojan War from an all-female perspective, for fans of Madeline Miller and Pat Barker.This was never the story of one woman, or two. It was the story of them alland...

Inand A Time of Courage, angels, demons and heroes face the ultimate fight for the Banished Lands. This is the epic conclusion to John Gwynne's mighty fantasy trilogy, Of Blood and Bone.Battle the darkReclaim the worldThe King of the Otherworld is finally free. Armed...

In a world divided by colonialism and threaded with magic, a desperate orphan turned pirate and a rebellious imperial lady find a connection on the high seas.Aboard the pirate shipand Dove, Flora the girl takes on the identity of Florian the man to earn...

In an unnamed city, where to be interesting is dangerous, an eighteen-year-old woman has attracted the unwanted and unavoidable attention of a powerful and frightening older man, 'Milkman'. In this community, where suggestions quickly become fact, where gossip and hearsay can lead to terrible...

In Arabs and the Art of Storytelling, the eminent Moroccan literary historian and critic Kilito revisits and reassesses, in a modern critical light, many traditional narratives of the Arab world. He brings to such celebrated texts as A Thousand and One Nights, Kalila and...

In August 1941 Hiroko, eighteen years old and torn between her mother's belief in ancient traditions and her father's passion for modern ideas, leaves Kyoto to come to America for an education. To Hiroko, California is a different world - a world of barbecues,...

In Blackmore's striking fictional retelling of this true history, Costanza refuses to accept a fate as nothing more than a victim of male exploitation'and SUNDAY TIMES'Wonderful... This novel took over my life for the time I was buried in it. Powerful and deeply affecting'...

'In eighteenth-century France there lived a man who was one of the most gifted and abominable personages in an era that knew no lack of gifted and abominable personages. His name was Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, and if his name has been forgotten today, it is...

In January 1649, King Charles I was beheaded in London outside his palace of Whitehall and Britain became a republic. When his eldest son, Charles, returned in 1651 to fight for his throne, he was crushed by the might of Cromwell's armies at the...

In late August of 2011, Shahbaz Taseer was driving to his office in Lahore, Pakistan when he was dragged from his car at gunpoint and kidnapped by members of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU), a Taliban-affiliated terrorist group.Just seven months earlier, his father,...

In May 1941 Lena Mukhina was an ordinary teenage girl, living in Leningrad, worrying about her homework and whether Vova, the boy she liked, liked her. Like a good Soviet schoolgirl, she was also diligently learning German, the language of Russia's Nazi ally. And...

In the age of the Faerie Queene, Elizabeth I, Lord Francis Rodermere starts to lay waste to a forest.Furious, the sorceress who dwells there scrawls a curse into the bark of the first oak he fells:A faerie boy will be born to you whose...

In the arid summer heat, four children - Jack, Julie, Sue and Tom - find themselves abruptly orphaned. All the routines of childhood are cast aside as the children adapt to a now parentless world. Alone in the house together, the children's lives twist...

In the backwoods of Mississippi, Jewel and her husband are truly blessed; they have five fine children. When Brenda Kay is born in 1943, Jewel gives thanks for a healthy baby, last-born and most welcome. "Jewel" is the story of how quickly a life...

In the cultural hub of 1880s' Lahore Kay Robinson has taken over as editor of the Civil and Military Gazette. Assisting him is the young and impressionable Rudyard Kipling, a lonely, impulsive man who dreams of becoming a writer. Kipling's literary pursuits have been...

In the eighteenth century it was criminally easy to bump off unwanted relatives. A Household Thrown into Chaos Plumstead village, 2 November 1833. Wealthy landlord, George Bodle is taken violently ill. He dies within hours. When his wife, daughter and two maids are also...

In the epic follow-up to theand New York Timesand bestsellerand Sword Catcher, praised by George R. R. Martin as everything I look for in fantasy,' Lin and Kel must chart a perilous course between love and lies.Kel Saren, body double to Conor, crown prince...

In the months leading up to March 2003, fresh from its swift and heady victory in Afghanistan, the Bush administration mobilized the United States armed forces to overthrow the government of Iraq. Eight months after the president declared an end to major combat operations,...

In the oldest inhabited place on earth, atop a mountain known as the Citadel, a Vatican-like city-state towers above the city of Ruin in modern-day Turkey. Now, thanks to media coverage of a climber's assent, the eyes of the whole world are on a...

In The Persian Expedition, Xenophon, a young Athenian noble who sought his destiny abroad, provides an enthralling eyewitness account of the attempt by a Greek mercenary army - the Ten Thousand - to help Prince Cyrus overthrow his brother and take the Persian throne....

In the Sicily of the '50s, still haunted by memories of Fascism and the war, Giuseppe Tomasi, the last Prince of Lampedusa, struggles to complete the novel that will be his lasting legacy,and The Leopard.In 1943, an Allied bomb destroyed the Lampedusa palace in...

In the summer of 1947, when the creation of the state of Pakistan was formally announced, ten million people Muslims and Hindus and Sikhs were in flight. By the time the monsoon broke, almost a million of them were dead, and all of northern...

In the summer of 1968, Ruby Wilde is the toast of Las Vegas. Showgirl of the Year, in her feathers and rhinestones, five-inch heels and sky-high headdresses, she mesmerises audiences from the Tropicana to the Stardust. Ratpackers and movie stars, gamblers and astronauts vie...