Rhea - dark, intense and brilliant - and her golden, voluptuous sister Amber are not alike, but they are bound tighter than most: by love, by the loss of their father, and by the man who stands between them. Lewis is Amber's husband and...

'Rich and intricately drawn... luminous prose' Carolyn ParkhurstAfter the birth of her daughter Emma, the usually resilient Majella finds herself feeling isolated and exhausted. Then, at her childhood home, Majella discovers the diary of her maternal ancestor Ginny, and is shocked to read a...

Richard Lionheart tells the story of his mother, Eleanor of Aquitaine. In 1173, she and three of her sons instigate a rebellion to overthrow the English king, her husband Henry Plantagenet. What prompts this revolt? How does a great queen persuade her children to...

Three decades into Emperor Shah Jahan's reign, while the monarch indulges in the pleasures of the flesh to divert himself from the travails of his ageing body, the country is bracing itself for the brutal-and inevitable-war of succession to the Peacock Throne. At this...

Rogue FBI agent Jane Hawk is living in a world of danger. Her battle to expose a global conspiracy risks her own life and that of her five-year-old son, whom she has sent into hiding.But more than just their lives are at stake: this...

Rose was left by her mother at the door of Campion's Palace of Variety and Wonders as a baby. It is her home, and she loves it, but she never stops wondering who she really is. When murder threatens to destroy the music hall,...

Rules Of Civilityand by Amor Towles is the unforgettable debut by the million-copy bestselling author ofand A Gentleman in Moscowand andand The Lincoln HighwayIn a New York City jazz bar on the last night of 1937, watching a quartet because she couldn't afford to...

Run Wild. Run Free.The horses are in danger. They were rounded up by the two-legs and forced onto a boat to cross the wide ocean. The journey went badly and the boat was deemed too heavy, so the two-legs forced the horses into the...

Rupert Everett's first memoir - Red Carpets and Other Banana Skins - was an international bestseller and an instant classic on publication in 2006. Reviewers compared him to Evelyn Waugh, David Niven, Noel Coward and Lord Byron. But Rupert Everett is - of course...

Saifulmalook : Saiful Namo

Sam Kandy, born to low prospects in a Ceylon village in 1899, dies a hundred years later as the wealthy headman of the same village - a self-made shipping magnate and the father of sixteen, who's been married three times and widowed twice. Told...

Summer of 1876: San Francisco is in the fierce grip of a record-breaking heat wave and a smallpox epidemic. Through the window of a railroad saloon, a young woman named Jenny Bonnet is shot dead. The survivor, her friend Blanche Beunon, is a French...

Sasha has always been taught that wolves are dangerous, but when he finds himself lost out in the snow with Ferdy, a wolfcub, he discovers they are not so different. But how can he persuade his village that the wolves can be their friends?Gaia...

Second in the AGE OF MADNESS trilogy, THE TROUBLE WITH PEACE is the nextand instalmentand of a series which is revolutionising fantasy . . .Conspiracy. Betrayal. Rebellion.Peace is just another kind of battlefield . . .Savine dan Glokta, once Adua's most powerful investor, finds...

Second novel in the brilliant new series from the bestselling author ofand Prince of Thorns.In Mystic Class Nona Grey begins to learn the secrets of the universe. But so often, knowing the truth just makes our choices harder. Before she leaves the Convent of...

Secrets! Magic! Enemies to . . . something more? Set in an alternative Edwardian England,and A Power Unboundand is the steamy, spellbinding conclusion to The Last Binding trilogy by Freya Marske. Sublime prose, top-notch world-building, delightfully queer' - TJ Klune, bestselling author ofand Under...

Seducer, gambler, necromancer, swindler, swashbuckler, poet, self-made gentleman, bon vivant, Giacomo Casanova was not only the most notorious lover of the Western world, but a supreme story teller. He lived a life stranger than most fictions, and the tale of his own adventures is...

Separation of Sindh from Bombay Presidency (1847-1936).

Set against the Blitz in London, a young woman's extraordinary journey of self-discovery and an intimate meditation on what it takes to find our place in the world.A March Best Book inand Red'NOTE PERFECT'and East Ridingand Magazine'AN EXTRAORDINARY NEW WRITER' Nina StibbeI used to...

Set in a small-town North Carolina amusement park in 1973, Joyland tells the story of the summer in which college student Devin Jones comes to work as a carny and confronts the legacy of a vicious murder, the fate of a dying child, and...

Set in an alternative Edwardian England, this is a comedy of manners, manor houses, and hedge mazes - including a magic-infused murder mystery and a delightful queer romance. Lush historical fantasy . . . A delightful book, with richly developed characters'and -and New York...

'SET IN DIVINE NORTH NORFOLK. INTENSELY ATMOSPHERIC AND GREAT' India KnightDr Ruth Galloway returns to the moody and beautiful landscape of North Norfolk to confront another killer. A devastating new case for our favourite forensic archaeologist in this acclaimed and bestselling crime series.The Night...

Set in turn-of-the-century New York, E.L. Doctorow'sand Ragtimeand seamlessly blends fictional characters and realistic depictions of historical figures to bring to life the events that defined American history in the years before the First World War. This Penguin Modern Classics edition includes an introduction...

Seventeen-year-old Audrey Rose Wadsworth was born a lord's daughter, with a life of wealth and privilege stretched out before her. But between the social teas and silk dress fittings, she leads a forbidden secret life.Against her stern father's wishes and society's expectations, Audrey often...

Seventeen-year-old Christine Bolz knows that there is a whole world waiting beyond her small German village. It's a world she's begun to glimpse through music, books - and through Isaac Bauerman, the cultured son of the wealthy Jewish family she works for. Yet in...

She didn't want Prince Charming. She wanted the demon.From #1and New York Timesand bestselling author Kerri Maniscalco,and Throne of the Fallenand is a seductive new standalone novel set within theand Kingdom of the Wicked world.A wicked prince.and A fallen painter.and Let the games begin...

She is society's most rebellious lady.After spending years writing scandalous political essays, Lady Alexandra Grey is used to society's censure. Her father, however, is determined to get his headstrong daughter under control.He is king of London's underworld.Nicholas Thorne has never been above lying, cheating,...

Sherman Alexie's stature as a writer of stories, poems, and novels has soared over the course of his twenty-book, twenty-year career. His wide-ranging, acclaimed stories from the last two decades, from The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven to his most recent PEN/Faulkner...

Shortlisted for Pageturner of the Year at the British Book Awards A Waterstones Book of the Month 'Vivid, wise and unflinching, this is a triumph' The Times 'I loved it' Jennifer Saint 'I couldn't put it down' Claire Douglas 'Utterly spellbinding' Woman andamp; Home...

Shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize andamp; the Orwell Prize for FictionAand Sunday Timesand Fictionand Book of the Year'aand serious accomplishment'and Sunday Times'vivid and expansive' Sophie Mackintosh'aand lyrical celebration'and TLS'aand glorious, poetic feat' Bolu BabalolaThis is a novel about two women - Melissa and Catarina.Catarina...

Short-listed for the Man Booker Prize In "Satin Island, " Tom McCarthy the acclaimed, Man Booker Prize-nominated author of "Remainder" and "C" captures the way we experience our world and our efforts to find meaning in the narratives we think of as our lives....

Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize'A triumph' -and The Observer'A masterly achievement' -and The IndependentIn January 1895 Henry James anticipates the opening of his first play,and Guy Domville, in London. The production fails, and he returns, chastened and humiliated, to his writing desk. The...

Shortlisted for The Orange Prize for Fiction 2012 If it hadn't been for the child then none of this might have happened. She saw me kissing her father. She saw her father kissing me. The fact that a child got mixed up in it...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE ROMANTIC NOVELISTS' ASSOCIATION HISTORICAL ROMANTIC NOVEL AWARDA gripping and poignant love story set in a remote village in the Scottish Highlands at the end of the Second World War.'the only fault I can find with this book is that I've already...

Shortlisted for the Winston Graham Prize for Historical Fiction'This book is a rarity - a novel as remarkable for the vigour of the storytelling as for its literary ambition. Kim Sherwood is a writer of capacity, potency and sophistication' HILARY MANTELA Wild andamp; True...

Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2023A Reese's Bookclub December Pick (2022)An Instantand Sunday Times,and New York Timesand andand Irish Timesand Bestseller (August 2022)Aand Guardianand and LitHub Book of the Year (December 2022)'Every bit as evocative and spellbinding asand Hamnet. O'Farrell, thank God,...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2023SHORTLISTED FOR THE WATERSTONES DEBUT FICTION PRIZE 2023AN OBSERVER BEST DEBUT NOVEL OF THE YEARIt's time to dance, to love, to be free… Mesmerising'and BERNARDINE EVARISTO, author ofand Girl, Woman, Other Fabulous'and MAGGIE O'FARRELL, author ofand Hamnet...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2024'Rey Lescure's prose is cinematic, compelling, perceptive and poignant'and The Guardian'I ... loved Aube Rey Lescure's River East, River West, which portrays western expats in Shanghai with both clear-eyed critique and compassion'and Rebecca F Kuang, author ofand...

Simone's mother was murdered when she was thirteen. When her father was convicted, everything changed. Overnight, Simone went from living in a wealthy white neighborhood to scraping by.Ten years later, Simone has given up on her dreams and lives a quiet life, writing book...

Since his astonishing Academy Award-nominated film, My Beautiful Laundrette (1985), Hanif Kureishi has been recognized as a major writer who has both documented and profoundly influenced contemporary British culture. His first novel, The Buddha of Suburbia (1990), remains a key work in redefining our...

Sindh Shanasy

Sindh Studies Culture And History

Sir Edwin Arnold, CSI, CIE (1832-1904), was an English poet and journalist, who is best known for his work, The Light of Asia (1879). In 1856, he went to India as principal of the Government Sanskrit College at Poona, a post which he held...

Sisters Tiao and Fan grew up in the shadow of the Cultural Revolution where they witnessed ritual humiliation and suffering. They also witnessed the death of their baby sister in a tragic accident. It was an accident they could have prevented; an accident that...

Sitting quietly in his room in an old people's home, Allan Karlsson is waiting for a party he doesn't want to begin. His one-hundredth birthday party to be precise. The Mayor will be there. The press will be there. But, as it turns out,...

Sizzling romance with a splash of intrigue' Julia Quinn, author of Bridgerton Fast-paced and feisty Regency fiction with a dazzlingly daring heroine who breaks the mould. Not every Regencyand Sizzling romance with a splash of intrigue' Julia Quinn, author ofand BridgertonFast-paced and feisty Regency...

Slaka! Land of lake and forest, of beetroot and tractor. Slaka! Land whose borders are sometimes here, often further north, and sometimes not at all! Dr Petworth is on a cultural exchange to the small (and fictional) Eastern European country of Slaka. Pallid and...

Slappy's back! The demented dummy and all his creepy pals are back for this sequel to the hit 2015 Goosebumps movie. Scholastic's junior novelization has all the chills, thrills, and laugh-out-loud horror of the new movie, due in theaters October 12, 2018. Includes eight...

Small Islandand by bestselling author Andrea Levy won the Orange Prize for Fiction and the Orange Prize 'Best of the Best' as well as the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and the Whitbread. Possibly the definitive fictional account of the experiences of theand Empire Windrushand generation,...

So it is that Struan Robertson, orphan, genius, and just seventeen, leaves his dour native town of Cuik, and arrives in London in the freakish fine summer of 1989. His job, he finds, is to care for Phillip, dumbfounded and paralysed by a massive...