**Explore the fascinating history of theand realand Downton Abbey as the Crawley family saga makes its way on to the big screen withand Downton Abbey, the major motion picture**'An excellent depiction of English aristocratic life ... a compelling portrait'and Publisher's Weekly* * * *...

**FROM THE AUTHOR OFand INSIDE THE WAVE, THE COSTA BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017**Leningrad, September 1941. Hitler orders the German forces to surround the city at the start of the most dangerous, desperate winter in its history. For two pairs of lovers - Anna...

A fine, lyrical novel, impressive in its complex interweaving of the grand and the intimate, of the personal and political' ObserverLandry and Prentiss are two brothers born into slavery, finally freed as the American Civil War draws to its bitter close. Cast into the...

**Now adapted as the Netflix documentary - Big Vape tells the story of how a cigarette start-up became a multibillion-dollar company until an epidemic causes its success to go up in smoke**'Big Vapeand is a dazzling story that crackles with the energy of a...

**Selected for BBC 2and Between the Coversand Book Club 2023**'Tense. Moving. Morally complex. Zina Pavlou is wholly unforgettable.'and Rachel Rhys'Hugely powerful...and Easily one of the best books you'll read this year.' Emma ChristieTHEY HAVE TOLD SO MANY LIES ABOUT ME.London, 1954.and Zina Pavlou, a...

**The spellbinding new retelling of the Trojan War drawn from the perspective of the fearless women at the heart of it all.** 'The story and its characters swept me up and engulfed me, I could not put this one down' ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐...

*A National Book Award Finalist*From the author ofand Nowhere Boy -and called “a resistance novel for our times byand The New York Times -and comes a brilliant middle-grade survival story that traces a harrowing family secret back to the Holodomor, a terrible famine that...

*'A once-in-a-lifetime work of literature, the kind that changes your understanding of the world' Yara Rodriguez Fowler, Guardian * 'Astonishingly rich in character and incident, filled with magic and mystery' Nick Rennison, Sunday Times * 'Tremendous. A masterfully absorbing, mythic work from a vital...

*A Women's Prizeand Futures 10and Finalist *A Waterstones Best Book of the YearLonglisted for the Walter Scott PrizeLonglisted for the Portico Prize'Highly atmospheric and tense' Richard OsmanFrom the bestselling author ofand The Familiarsand andand The Foundlingand comes Stacey Halls' most compelling and ambitious novel...

*Anand Evening Standardand Must Read,and Graziaand Best Book of 2021 andand Independentand Debut Not to Miss*'Beautifully written, this is a book of real hope and connection'and StylistDid you ever have a friend who made you see the world differently?Stan did, and his name was...

*INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER**AN OBSERVER DEBUT OF 2022**AS FEATURED ON FRONT ROW*When we go through something impossible, someone, or something, will help us, if we let them . . .It is October 1966 and William Lavery is having the night of his life at...

*Kayte Nunn's brand new achingly romantic novel,and THE LAST REUNIONand is available to pre-order now!!*'Exquisitely written, this vivid story may just bewitch you'and Woman'Utterly spellbinding'and Natasha Lester'Exquisitely written, this vivid story may just bewitch you'and Woman's WeeklyAn enchanting mystery kept hidden for hundreds of...

*Million-copy bestselling author Jodi Ellen Malpas is back - with herand first everand Regency series. Don't miss this summer's hottest read andamp; pre-order the first book now!*One forbidden night...It's 1816 and nineteen-year-old Eliza Melrose, daughter of a printing magnate, is about to be launched...

*NOW A MAJOR FILM STARRING TOM HANKS AND FELICITY JONES*Florence: Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon awakes in a hospital bed with no recollection of where he is or how he got there. Nor can he explain the origin of the macabre object that is found...

*Picked as one of the best historical novels of 2023 byand The Times!*'A creepy, chilling story - another Anna Mazzola triumph!'and JENNIFER SAINT'Chilling and compelling, with echoes of Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca'and ESSIE FOX'This gothic ghost novel will keep you reading well into the...

*Special collector's edition with foiled signature on the board, exclusive to the first print run*SHARPE IS BACK.The brand new novel from Bernard Cornwell in the global bestselling Sharpe series.If any man can do the impossible it's Richard Sharpe . . .And the impossible is...

*The Grishaverse will be coming to Netflix soon with Shadow and Bone, an original series!*Enter the Grishaverse with book one of the Shadow and Bone Trilogy by number one New York Times-bestselling author, Leigh Bardugo. Perfect for fans of Laini Taylor and Sarah J....

*The Grishaverse will be coming to Netflix soon with Shadow and Bone, an original series!*Enter the Grishaverse with book three of the Shadow and Bone Trilogy by number one New York Times-bestselling author Leigh Bardugo. Perfect for fans of Laini Taylor and Sarah J....

*The international bestseller**and One of the BBC's '100 Novels that Shaped the World'*"Every true love and friendship is a story of unexpected transformation. If we are the same person before and after we loved, that means we haven't loved enough..."Ella Rubinstein has a husband,...

Available to pre-order now!The heartwarming new novel from the international million-copy bestselling author of THE LITTLE PARIS BOOKSHOP'Everyone knows me, but none can see me. I'm that thing you call love'__________In a small town in balmy Provence, Marie-Jeanne has a gift.She can see the marks...

*Victoria Hislop's most recent novel, THE FIGURINE, is available to pre-order in paperback.* This is a story of courage, brutality and fear, of loyalty and betrayal, of love and hatred, of despair and unquenchable hope. As always, Victoria Hislop brings vividly to life a...

`A shocking account of extreme violence and its complicated after-effects. It is a vivid and unsettling novel filled with surprises and insights' Ian McGuire, bestselling author of The North Water 'A heart-breaking and heart-stopping new novel; a dark Northern noir that moves at breakneck...

`I wouldn't scream if I were you. Unless you want the whole world to learn about your husband and his mistress.' Agatha Christie, in London to visit her literary agent, boards a train, preoccupied and flustered in the knowledge that her husband Archie is...

1190 AD: Richard the Lionheart has launched his epic crusade to seize Jerusalem from the cruel Saracens. Marching with the vast royal army is Britain's most famous, most feared, most ferocious warrior: the Outlaw of Nottingham, the Earl of Locksley -- Robin Hood himself....

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...

1453. The empire has shrunk to what lies within its no-longer magnificent walls. Yet for one man, Constantinople is the stepping stone to destiny. Mehmet II, just twenty when he is anointed Sultan, brings an army of one hundred thousand, outnumbering the defenders ten...

1640, and the pall of war hangs over France . . . The young Chevalier de Roland has scarcely set foot in the city before he crosses swords with a cruel nobleman to defend a young woman's honour. Too late he learns he has...

1814 promises to be another eventful season, but not, This Author believes, for Anthony Bridgerton, London's most elusive bachelor, who has shown no indication that he plans to marry. And in all truth, why should he? When it comes to playing the consummate rake,...

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...

1930s America, southern high society: Part love story, part coming-of-age novel, this is the moving, raw and exquisitely vivid story of an uncommon girl navigating a treacherous road to womanhood. Thea Atwell is fifteen years old in 1930, when, following a scandal for which...

1941. The Blitz rages over London.And even in Cornwall, the war is being fought…When Violet loses her sister in the Blitz, she must take her nieces to safety in Cornwall. On the coast, she meets carefree chorus girl Eva, who is also running from...

1942.and When Helda Dahlstrøm flees her abusive husband and Nazi-occupied Norway with her eight-year-old son she doesn't know if they'll make it out alive. In her desperate journey to safety she'll find safety on the rocky shores of the Shetland Islands, rescued by Canadian...

1945, Sunderland.and Ida Boulter makes the heart-wrenching decision to leave her five children behind as she escapes her husband and moves to London to start afresh with the love of her life.1953, County Durham.and Ida's children have since built a new life in the...

1946. Three years after a cataclysmic event which tore their lives apart, a mother and daughter flee Poland for Paris, shame and fear at their heels, not knowing how hard it is to escape your past. Nearly eighty years later, Gretel Fernsby lives a...

1955- In an apartment on the Lower East Side, school teachers Dovie and Gillian live as lodgers. Dancing behind closed curtains, mixing cocktails for two, they guard their private lives fiercely. Until someone guesses the truth . . . 1975- Ava Winters is keeping...

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...

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...

2017 marked three important anniversaries for the Palestinian people: 100 years since the Balfour Declaration; 50 years since the Six-day War; and ten years since the Blockade of Gaza. As an act of penance, solidarity and hope, actor and musician Justin Butcher - along...

A “spellbinding and “deeply intelligent historical novel about Marie Antoinette on the eve of the French Revolution (The Washington Post ) Through the untold love story between Marie Antoinette and Swedish aristocrat Axel von Fersen, acclaimed author Francine du Plessix Gray weaves history with...

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 Top 100 Novels that Shaped Our WorldEffia and Esi: two sisters with two very different destinies. One sold into slavery; one a slave trader's wife. The consequences of their fate reverberate through the generations that follow. Taking us from the Gold Coast...

A beautiful book ... It warmed my heart' MAX PORTER'Electrifying ... A pocket epic'and GUARDIANAn astounding debut, both epic and intimate, about grief, trauma, revelation, and the hidden lives of women - by a major new talentIn the year of 1413, two women meet...

A beautiful hardback edition ofand Angela Carter's feminist retelling of fairy tales - masterful, seductive and luminous.From familiar fairy tales and legends -and Red Riding Hood,and Bluebeard,and Puss in Boots,and Beauty and the Beast, vampires and werewolves - Angela Carter has created an absorbing...

A beautiful, powerful and utterly devastating novel from Orange-prize shortlisted author Georgina Harding'Georgina Harding's novel is the finely tuned work of a writer exceptionally at ease with her craft and a testament to the power and poetry of clean and disciplined prose'and GuardianThe memory...

A bitter wind blows over a small town in the Wyoming cattle country as a newcomer arrives. Qualified schoolteachers are hard to attract and golden-haired Miss Morrow, popular with the children, has drawn trouble of her own. A private investigator has followed a woman...

A body washed up on the beach... Evacuation to an old house with forbidden rooms and dark secrets... An animal rescue service... Set in world War two, Emma Carroll explores the resilience, resourcefulness and inventiveness of children when their lives fall to pieces. Introducing...

A bold, funny epic'and Observer'Compelling and satisfying . . . At times, incredibly funny, at others, heartrending'and Sarah Winman, author ofand Still Life___Cyril Avery is not a real Avery. At least, that's what his parents make sure to remind him. Adopted as a baby,...

A brand new wartime family saga, perfect for fans of Sheila Newberry and Val WoodSouthampton, 1905Young Ellie-May and Jack are best friends, having grown up together on the same street and been inseparable since birth. But when Jack and his mother are forced into...

A captivating sequel to the national bestselling novel Veil of Roses. Knowing she could never be happy in Iran, Tamila Soroush took her mother's advice to "Go and wake up your luck" and joined her sister in the United States. Now, after a spur-of-the-moment...

A charming and nostalgic World War II tale from the author ofand The Nursemaid's Secretand andand Bicycles and Blackberries, perfect for readers of Katie Flynn.1934Following the death of her beloved mother, twelve-year-old Tess Rainbow cares for her brother and father. Until one day, when...