As a psychiatrist, Nadine Lavoie wants to help people, but she has dark troubles of her own - some she can't even think about and some she can't even remember.

As battle cries of the American Revolution echo in the distance, servants flutter about preparing for one of New York society's biggest events: the Schuylers' grand ball. Descended from two of the oldest and most distinguished bloodlines in New York, the Schuylers are proud...

AS COMPELLING AS ANY OF DU MAURIER'S OWN WORKS'and SUNDAY TIMESShe wrote her stories in his shadow. Now Daphne's past is catching up with her...In a beautiful house in the wilds of Cornwall, Daphne du Maurier is on the brink of a nervous breakdown....

As Daniel Deronda opens, Gwendolen Harleth is poised at the roulette-table, prepared to throw away her family fortune. She is observed by Daniel Deronda, a young man groomed in the finest tradition of the English upper-classes. And while Gwendolen loses everything and becomes trapped...

AS FEATURED ON BBC RADIO 4 WOMAN'S HOURHer decision changed history.Now her family must survive it.British Malaya, 1930sDiscontented housewife Cecily is seduced by Japanese general Fujiwara and the glorious future he is promising for 'independent' Malaya, free from British colonialism. As she becomes further...

As romantic asand One Day,and you won't be able to put down this love story with a twist . . .When thirty-year-old English teacher Anna Emerson is offered a summer job tutoring T.J. Callahan at his family's holiday home in the Maldives, she accepts...

As sisters they share an everlasting bond; as queens they can break each other's hearts…When Katherine of Aragon is brought to the Tudor court as a young bride, the oldest princess, Margaret, takes her measure. With one look, each knows the other for a...

As World War One brings women unexpected new freedoms, bookbinder Peggy has the chance at a new future.'A wonderful book' Fiona Valpy, author ofand The Dressmaker's Gift'Your job is to bind the books, not read them.'When the men of Oxford University Press leave for...

Assassin's Creed: Revelationsand is the thrilling novelisation by Oliver Bowden based on the game series.Older, wiser and more deadly than ever, Master Assassin Ezio Auditore embarks on an epic journey to find the lost library of Altair - a library that may hold the...

Assassin's Creed: The Secret Crusade is the thrilling novelisation by Oliver Bowden based on the game series.Niccolò Polo, father of Marco, will finally reveal the story he has kept secret all his life - the story of Altaïr, one of the brotherhood's most extraordinary...

At least that post-Reformation sovereignty of the word still yields novels as richly imagined and skilfully crafted as this'and The SpectatorThings change; we have to recognise that; the world will not stay still. What we must hope is that the new is better and...

At nine years old, Amani Al-Khatahtbeh watched from her home in New Jersey as two planes crashed into the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. That same year, she heard her first racial slur. Muslim Girl: A Coming of Age is the extraordinary...

At nine years old, Frankie Presto is sent to America in the bottom of a boat. His only possession is an old guitar and six precious strings.But Frankie's talent is unique, and his amazing journey weaves him through the musical landscape of the twentieth...

At the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, Dora Chambers volunteers to enforce proper conduct on the Egyptian belly dancing exhibition to earn the approval of the World Fair's Board of Lady Managers, and appease her socially ambitious husband. But Dora finds herself captivated by these...

At the beginning of the fourteenth century, an ambitious sultan, Ala-ud-Din Khilji, becomes infatuated with the famed beauty of Rani Padmini. He arrives at her doorstep in Chittor and lays siege to her fort. Padmini convinces her husband, Maharawal Ratan Singh, and his warriors...

At the centre of young Ismail's world is the unknowable figure of his mother. Naïve and fragile as a paper doll, she is an unlikely presence in her husband's great stone house, with its hidden rooms and infamous dungeon, and is constantly at odds...

Atkinson on her finest form. A marvel of plate-spinning narrative knowhow, a peak performance of consummate control.'and OBSERVER'This isand the perfect novel for uncertain times.' THE TIMES'I can think ofand few writers other than Dickensand who can match it' SUNDAY TIMES'Brilliant'and RICHARD OSMAN'Kate Atkinson...

Attacked, damned, praised and read around the world, THE CARPETBAGGERS was first published in 1961 and shelved high enough that the kids couldn't get their hands on it.Set in the aviation industry and Hollywood in the 1930s, it is said the lead protaganist Jonas...

Attending a New England summer camp as an adolescent, young Erik Schroder - a first generation East German immigrant - adopts a new name and a new persona - Eric Kennedy - in the hopes that it will help him fit in. This fateful...

Attica Morgan - a rebellious and resourceful English spy - is laying low after an abortive mission. So when she's offered a pardon in return for solving a gruesome murder in Paris, she jumps at the chance to redeem herself.Once in the city, it...

Autobiography - M.H PANHWAR - (HB)

Axel Heyst, a dreamer and a restless drifter, believes he can avoid suffering by cutting himself off from others. Then he becomes involved in the operation of a coal company on a remote island in the Malay Archipelago, and when it fails he turns...

Banished for centuries, as punishment for trying to measure time, the inventor of the world's first clock is finally granted his freedom, along with a mission: a chance to redeem himself by teaching two people the true meaning of time.He returns to our world...

Based on true events in nineteenth century Ireland, Hannah Kent's startling new novel tells the story of three women, drawn together to rescue a child from a superstitious community.and Nora, bereft after the death of her husband, finds herself alone and caring for her...

BBC Between the Covers Book Club pick!Set against Iceland's stark landscape, Hannah Kent brings to vivid life the story of Agnes, who is charged with the brutal murder of her former master.'Outstanding' - Madeline Miller- The Women's Prize for Fiction Shortlist- The Guardian First...

BBC2's major Autumn 2015 TV show THE LAST KINGDOM is based on the first two books in the series. A fragile peace is about to be broken… King Alfred's son Edward and formidable daughter, Æthelflaed, rule Wessex, Mercia and East Anglia. But all around...

Be the first to read the next action-packed adventure from the indomitable Gauls by pre-ordering now!Follow Asterix and Obelix as they set out on their 39th adventure on a long journey in search of a strange and terrifying creature. Half-eagle, half-lion, and idolised and...

Becky is on a major rescue mission! Her father has vanished from Los Angeles on a mysterious quest with her best friend's husband. Becky's mum is hysterical; her best friend, Suze, is desperate. Worse, Becky must tolerate an enemy along for the ride, who...

Before everything changed, Hannah Rosenthal lived a charmed life. But now the streets of Berlin are draped in swastikas and Hannah is no longer welcome in the places she once considered home. A glimmer of hope appears in the shape of the St Louis,...

Before the Steven Spielberg film, before the National Theatre production, there was the classic children's novel - War Horse.From the nation's favourite storyteller, Michael Morpurgo.In the deadly chaos of the First World War, one horse witnesses the reality of battle from both sides of...

The million-copy bestselling series.Toshikazu Kawaguchi's poignantand Before We Say Goodbye,and translated from Japanese, explores the age-old question: what would you do if you could travel back in time? More importantly, who would you want to meet, maybe for one last time?The regulars at the...

Behind the Moon Gate lies a mystery... Theand most mesmerising story of family secrets, sweeping from wartime London to Ireland to Australia.and From the author of the beloved Richard and Judy Book Club pickand The Midnight House.'A rich, sweeping mystery . . . beautifully...

Believing in magic makes dreams come true…Jackie dreams of having a horse of her own, one that'll be the fastest on the estate, the fastest in all Ireland and the fastest in the world. Mum dreams of a little cottage in the country for...

Berlin, 1938. Newly-appointed military attache Noel Macrae and his extrovert wife Primrose arrive at the British Embassy. Prime Minister Chamberlain is intent on placating Nazi Germany, but Macrae is less so. Convinced that Hitler can be stopped by other means than appeasement, he soon...

Best-selling author Michael Morpurgo turns his storytelling skills to the drama and tragedy of the Spanish Civil War, illustrated by Michael Foreman.TORO,TORO is the story of a young boy growing up in Andalucia, Spain, on a farm rearing bulls for the bull ring. Antonito...

Bestselling author Shannon Chakraborty expands the acclaimed, Hugo-nominated Daevabad Trilogy with this magical compilation of stories from before, during, and after the events of the series.Told from the perspective of characters beloved and hated, and even those never heard from until now, these tales...

Between the death of Queen Victoria and the outbreak of the First World War, while the patriarchs of the Liberal and Tory parties vied for supremacy in parliament, the campaign for women's suffrage was fought with great flair and imagination in the public arena.and...

Billy was a champion soccer star, playing for Chelsea in the 1930s. But that was before war broke out…Billy the Kid is told through the voice of an 80 year old man, who looks back on his life as Chelsea's champion striker until the...

Birdsongand is a mesmerising story of love and war spanning three generations between WW1 and present day.THEand SUNDAY TIMESand BESTSELLER1910. Amiens, Northern France.and Stephen Wraysford, a young Englishman, arrives in the French city to stay with the Azaire family. He falls in love with...

Tomorrow, I'll think of some way to get him back. After all, tomorrow is another day.'Set against the dramatic backdrop of the American Civil War, Margaret Mitchell's magnificent historical epic is an unforgettable tale of love and loss, of a nation mortally divided and...

Blood andamp; Sugarand is the thrilling debut historical crime novel from Laura Shepherd-Robinson for fans of C. J. Sansom and Andrew Taylor.June, 1781. An unidentified body hangs upon a hook at Deptford Dock - horribly tortured and branded with a slaver's mark.Some days later,...

Books make beautiful Christmas gifts, and they'll be swept away by this warm hug of a book!'A tour de force' Sarah Winman, author ofand Still LifeThis is the story of an old English manor house by the sea, with crumbling chimneys, draping ivy and...

Boothand is a triumph!' Ruth Ozeki'Accomplished, immersive and profoundly satisfying' Cathy Rentzenbrink'Her finest, most beautiful novel to date' Neel Mukherjee'Effortlessly resonant... breathes rich imaginative colour in her characters'and Daily Telegraph'Karen Joy Fowler's novels are wildly inventive and deservedly popular'and Daily Mail'In its stretch and...

Born during the conflict of 1971, Raees Ali finds his entire life entwined in the political upheavals of Pakistan-something his grandfather, Dost Ali, also goes through during the partition and the following wars.From the time of his birth, we follow Raees Ali into the...

Born into a Jewish ghetto in Hungary, as a child, Elie Wiesel was sent to the Nazi concentration camps at Auschwitz and Buchenwald. This is his account of that atrocity: the ever-increasing horrors he endured, the loss of his family and his struggle to...

Bridging the gap between 'Game of Thrones' and Bernard Cornwell comes the second chapter in James Wilde's epic adventure of betrayal, battle and bloodshed . . .It is AD 367, and Roman Britain has fallen to the vast barbarian horde which has invaded from...

Bridging the gap between 'Game of Thrones' and Bernard Cornwell comes the third and final chapter in James Wilde's epic adventure of betrayal, battle and bloodshed . . .AD 375 - The Dark Age is drawing near . . .As Rome's legions abandon their...

Bright, pacy... Fans ofand Downton Abbeyand will adore this, and it would be surprising if the book weren't made into a luscious mini-series'The Sunday Times'A captivating and page-turning novel about a fascinating family. Fantastic'and Sineadand MoriartyThe Irish Top Ten Bestseller. Step inside the extraordinary...

Brooklyn, 2001. It is the evening of sixteen-year-old Melody's coming of age ceremony in her grandparents' brownstone. Watched lovingly by her relatives and friends, making her entrance to the music of Prince, she wears a special custom-made dress - the very same dress that...

Brutally violent,and Blood Meridianand is the story of one teenage runaway in the nineteenth-century American South, as a sadistic gang unleashes its massacre across the desert land. It is the work that sealed Cormac McCarthy's reputation as one of the twentieth century's greatest writers...