When the residents of St Kilda ask to be evacuated from their remote island home in the summer of 1930, it's in search of a better life on the mainland rather than the scratch existence on their mountain in the sea. For 18-year old...

When the shots rang out in the shopping mall, Simone Knox knew what to do. Shelter in place. That's what they taught you to do in the event of a mass shooting. So on that terrible, hot summer day in 2005, Simone was lucky....

When the Vikings attack, a novice monk's life is changed forever in Matthew Harffy's new historical adventure.Lindisfarne, AD793.and There had been portents - famine, whirlwinds, lightning from clear skies, serpents seen flying through the air. But when the raiders came, no one was prepared.They...

When troops invaded Iraq in 2003 to topple Saddam Hussein's regime, most people expected an easy victory. Instead, the gamble we took was a grave mistake, and its ramifications continue to reverberate through the lives of millions, in Iraq and the West. As we...

When twenty-eight-year-old Lexi Smart wakes up in a London hospital, she's in for a big surprise. Her teeth are perfect. Her body is toned. Her handbag is Vuitton. Having survived a car accident-in a Mercedes no less-Lexi has lost a big chunk of her...

When you live on the edge of society, it only takes one step to fall between the cracks Twins Jeanie and Julius have always been different. At 51 years old, they still live with their mother, Dot, in rural isolation and poverty. Their rented...

Where did the idea of race come from, and what does it mean? In an age of identity politics, DNA ancestry testing and the rise of the far-right, a belief in biological differences between populations is experiencing a resurgence. The truth is: race is...

Whilst the young King Henry VIII basks in the pageants and games of his glittering court, his doting queen's health and fortunes fade. Henry's affections for his older wife soon stray, leaving the lonely Katharine to instead use her marital sway to dangerous foreign...

Whip-smart and uncompromising' NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW'Quietly riveting' IRISH TIMES'It's the perfect crime' NEW YORKER'Impressive and complex' GUARDIAN'Addictive' OPRAH DAILYThe riveting new novel from the author ofand The Great Believers, finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book AwardA successful film professor...

Who tells the greatest story God or Manto? Dozakhnama: Conversations in Hell is an extraordinary novel, a biography of Manto and Ghalib and a history of Indian culture rolled into one. Exhumed from dust, Manto's unpublished novel surfaces in Lucknow. Is it real or...

Widely acclaimed as Naguib Mahfouz's best novel,and Midaq Alleyand brings to life one of the hustling, teeming back alleys of Cairo in the 1940s. From Zaita the cripple-maker to Kirsha the hedonistic cafe owner, from Abbas the barber who mistakes greed for love to...

Widely acclaimed since publication,and The French Lieutenant's Womanand is John Fowles' best-loved novel and the ultimate in epic historical romance.Charles Smithson, a respectable engaged man, meets Sarah Woodruff as she stands on the Cobb at Lyme Regis, staring out to sea. Charles falls in...

Will he take his rightful place as King of Manhattan's kink kingdom? A man who can't be tamed… Bouncing from bed to bed on the Upper East Side, Kingsley Edge is brilliant, beautiful and utterly debauched. No one can relieve his self-destructive appetite for...

Willa Cather's first Great Plains novel,and is at once a love letter to Nebraska and the tale of a remarkable heroine who remains resilient in the face of tragedy. She is undoubtedly one of the greatest American writers'and ObserverAlexandra Bergson inherits the family farm...

William Makepeace Thackeray'sand Vanity Fairand depicts the anarchic anti-heroine Beky Sharpe cutting a swathe through the eligible young men of Europe, set against a lucid backdrop of war and international chaos. This Penguin Classics edition is edited with an introduction and notes by John...

Winner of the 2012 Philip K. Dick Award Theorem: Petrovitch has a lot of secrets. Proof: Secrets like how to make anti-gravity for one. For another, he's keeping a sentient computer program on a secret server farm - the same program that nearly destroyed...

WINNER OF THE 2020 WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION - THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Richly sensuous... something special' The Sunday Times 'A thing of shimmering wonder' David Mitchell TWO EXTRAORDINARY PEOPLE. A LOVE THAT DRAWS THEM TOGETHER. A LOSS THAT THREATENS TO TEAR THEM APART....

WINNER OF THE 2022 PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION2021 NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD WINNERAand NEW YORK TIMESand NOTABLE BOOK OF 2021Aand WALL STREET JOURNALand BEST BOOK OF 2021Aand KIRKUSand BEST FICTION BOOK OF 2021"Absorbing, delightful, hilarious, breathtaking and the best and most relevant novel I've...

WINNER OF THE AN POST IRISH BOOK AWARDS NOVEL OF THE YEAR 2022SHORTLISTED FOR THE WATERSTONES DEBUT FICTION PRIZE 2022ANand OBSERVERand BEST DEBUT NOVELIST OF 2022A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK AT BEDTIMEA 2022 BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR:and THE TIMES * SUNDAY TIMES *...

Winner of the Blogger's Book Prize, 2021and Shortlisted for the People's Book Prize, 2021Winner of Best Literary Fiction and Best Multicultural Fiction at American Book Fest International Book Awards, 2021'An epic account of Viet Nam's painful 20th-century history, both vast in scope and intimate...

WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2021One family. One promise. One chance to tell a new story.'A moving, brilliantly told family epic' Elizabeth DayTHEand SUNDAY TIMESand BESTSELLEROn a farm outside Pretoria, the Swarts are gathering for Ma's funeral. The younger generation, Anton and Amor, detest...

WINNER OF THE DESMOND ELLIOTT PRIZE 2021'Riveting, appalling, addictive' Megan NolanEngland, 1643. Puritanical fervour has gripped the nation. In Manningtree, depleted of men since the Civil War began, the women are left to their own devices and Rebecca West chafes against the drudgery of...

Winner of theand Guardianand Children's Fiction Award, GOODNIGHT MISTER TOM is of one of the best-loved stories set during the Second World War.'Everyone's idea of a smash-hit novel: full-blown characters to love and hate, moments of grief and joy, and a marvellous story that...

WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE 2024'An ambitious story of love and betrayal' -and Irish Times'The ending is like a bomb thrown into your room -- you'll be reeling for days and weeks to come.' - Neel MukherjeeBerlin. 11 July 1986.and They meet by...

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE 2023'A must-read for anyone concerned with human rights in Iran. A gripping, moving and utterly shocking account.' Kylie Moore-GilbertIranian prisons systematically violate human rights. Inand White Torture, fourteen women, including Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, share their experiences of imprisonment: harassment...

WINNER OF THE OCM BOCAS PRIZE FOR CARIBBEAN LITERATURESHORTLISTED FOR THE RSL ONDAATJE PRIZE, THE GREEN CARNATION PRIZE, and the HISTORICAL WRITERS AWARD'Miller's storytelling is superb' SUNDAY TIMESOne April day in Augustown, Jamaica. Ma Taffy, old and blind, sits in her usual spot on...

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTIONTWICE WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL FICTIONSHORTLISTED FOR THE JAMES TAIT BLACK PRIZE FOR FICTIONTHE MULTI-MILLION COPY SELLING AUTHORBOOK AT BEDTIME ON BBC RADIO 4AN OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK'Without a doubt the...

Winner of the Waterstones Debut Fiction PrizeWinner of the National Book Award for Fiction 2022A Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle AwardA Waterstones Book of the Year for 2022Winner of the Barnes and Noble Discover PrizeAn Oprah Daily Book of the Year, 2022...

WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION'Tense, dark and intensely gripping . . . written so seductively that passages sing out from the page 'and Sunday TimesCathy and her brother, Rob, don't know why they have been abandoned by their parents. Alone in their...

Witchfinder General,and Salem,and Malleus Maleficarum.and The world ofand witch-huntsand andand witch trialsand sounds archaic and fanciful, these terms relics of an unenlightened, brutal age. However, we often hear witch-hunt' in today's media, and the misogyny that shaped witch trials is all too familiar.and Three...

With "The Glass Kitchen," Linda Francis Lee has served up a novel that is about the courageit takes to follow your heart and be yourself.A true recipe for life.Portia Cuthcart never intended to leave Texas. Her dream was to run the Glass Kitchen restaurant...

With a new introduction by JESMYN WARDBorn on the wrong side of the creek, John Buddy Pearson, the son of a slave, has come a long way since his shoeless days. With some schooling, a job and marriage to clever Lucy Potts, his fortunes...

With a wife he loves and an exciting London-based career, architect Charles Waterston's life seems in perfect balance. Nothing in his comfortable existence prepares him for the sudden end to his ten-year marriage - or his unwanted transfer to his firm's New York office....

With his characteristic warmth, inventiveness and brilliant wit, Alexander McCall Smith gives us more of the gloriously entertaining comings and goings at 44 Scotland Street, the Edinburgh townhouse.Six-year-old prodigy Bertie perseveres in his heroic struggle for truth and balanced good sense against his insufferable...

With neither friends nor family, Lucy Snowe sets sail from England to find employment in a girls' boarding school in the small town of Villette. There she struggles to retain her self-possession in the face of unruly pupils, an initially suspicious headmaster and her...

With the centennial year of the United States as the target of this historical novel, Gore Vidal again mounts a glorious expedition into that grimy and intricate activity called politics. And this is politics as it ought to be: gossip, corruption, money, dinner parties,...

With this highly praised collection of short fiction, Lorna Goodison demonstrates why she may be one of literature's best-kept secrets. In the Pushcart Prize-winning title story, humble Dottie thinks her luck has turned when she meets Frenchie, the best-looking, if not most reliable, man...

Witness the rise of the Tudors in the stunning conclusion to Conn Iggulden's powerful retelling of the Wars of the Roses.'An utterly compelling page-turner full of historical facts. A fascinating read'and SunEngland, 1470.and A divided kingdom cannot stand.King Edward of York has been driven...

'Wonderfully written and a real page turner. Christina tells a story equally as well as Barbara Erskine' 5* reader review Brimming with romance, adventure and vivid historical detail, Christina Courtenay does for the Vikings what Diana Gabaldon's Outlander and Clanlans does for Scottish history....

Wry, readable and often astonishing... A provocative and absorbing history of the United States'and New York TimesThe United States denies having dreams of empire.We know America has spread its money, language and culture across the world, but we still think of it as a...

Xenophon's History recounts nearly fifty turbulent years of warfare in Greece between 411 and 362 BC. Continuing the story of the Peloponnesian War at the point where Thucydides finished his magisterial history, this is a fascinating chronicle of the conflicts that ultimately led to...

Yanis Varoufakis, world renowned economist, writes to his daughter to teach her the hazards of capitalism. Why is there so much inequality?' asked Xenia to her father. Answering her questions in a series of accessible and tender letters, Varoufakis educates her to what economics...

Yet beneath the veneer, and fuelled by the pressure of the life she leads, Electra's already tenuous control over her state of mind has been rocked by the death of her father, Pa Salt, the elusive billionaire who adopted his six daughters from across...

Yona has used her knowledge of the wilderness to help hundreds of Jews escape the Nazis. But what happens when a secret from her past emerges and threatens everything?After being stolen from her wealthy German parents and raised in the unforgiving wilderness of eastern...

You may think you know the story. Penniless orphan Jane Eyre begins a new life as a governess at Thornfield Hall, where she meets one dark, brooding Mr. Rochester--and, Reader, she marries him. Or does she?Prepare for an adventure of Gothic proportions, in which...

You'll be lucky if you read a more engaging novel this year'and The Timesand Thriller of the Month'Small Merciesand is thought-provoking, engaging, enraging, and can't-put-it-down entertainment' Stephen King'A jaw-dropping thriller... a resonant, unflinching story written by a novelist who is simply one of the...

You've heard all about the brilliant men' of ancient myth, but what about the scheming and scandalous women who were so often lost in their shadow?Bad Girls of Ancient Greeceand contains profiles of wayward wives, mad mothers, scandalous sisters and damsels, that quite frankly,...

You've met the Bridgertons . . . now discover the Blydons. In Julia Quinn's witty, delightful debut, one scandalous Season will change two lives foreverThere are two things everyone knows about Alexander Ridgely. One, he's the Duke of Ashbourne. And two, he is determined...

You've seen the BBC 2 series, now read the novel based on the TV show. Don't miss VERSAILLES the most sexy and shocking drama ever written about the king who built the world's most famous palace. Packed with sex, scandal and intrigue, VERSAILLES will...

Yuval Noah Harari, author of the bestselling Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, envisions a not-too-distant world in which we face a new set of challenges. Now, in Homo Deus, he examines our future with his trademark blend of science, history, philosophy and every...