1901. Cork can sound very similar to New York to foreign ears and tired brains, so it's no surprise that Ruth's family - Jewish refugees fleeing the European pogroms - mistakenly disembark from their tramp steamer to America a few stops and a few...

1929. George and Serena Pemberton arrive in the wilds of the North Carolina mountains to build a life together in a rural logging town. Unlike any woman the timber empire has ever seen, Serena oversees crews, hunts rattlesnakes and saves her husband's life in...

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...

1938. A perfect summer on the Greek island of Lefkas for three young people untroubled by the simmering politics of Europe. Peter, visiting from Germany while his father leads an archaeological dig, has become close friends with locals Andreas and Eleni. As the world...

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 the world is at war. It is a war that has already shattered families and devastated countries. But for some, it will also mean the greatest of adventures. In a burns hospital in Sussex, a beautiful young singer performs to a ward...

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...

From the best-selling author ofand The Name of the Roseand andand The Prague Cemetery,and a novel about the murky world of media politics, conspiracy, and murderA newspaper committed to blackmailand andand mud slinging,and rather than reporting the news.and A paranoid editor, walking through the...

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 Last War of Independence

1946, Texarkana: a town on the border of Texas and Arkansas. Disgraced New York reporter Charlie Yates has been sent to cover the story of a spate of brutal murders - young couples who've been slaughtered at a local date spot. Charlie finds himself...

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...

1950s Morocco: murder,and magic and divided loyalties...Hamou Badi is born in a mountain village with the magical signs of the zouhry on his hands. The zouhry is a figure of legend, capable of finding all manner of treasure. But instead of finding treasure, young...

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...

1970s Mexico City: while student protests and political unrest consume the city, Maite seeks escape from her humdrum life in the stories of passion and danger filling the latest issue of Secret Romance.She is deeply envious of her neighbour, a beautiful art student apparently...

1971 Ethnic Cleansing of Biharis in East Pakistan

1971. Sheikh Mujibur Rehman in East Pakistan has just won an electoral mandate to become the prime minister of Pakistan. Accustomed to treating the eastern wing of the country as a colony, the ruling disposition in West Pakistan is not pleased, and launches a...

1973. US participation in the Vietnam War ends. As troops withdraw, President Nixon pledges to assist the South in the event of invasion by the North.1975. North Vietnam begins a full-scale assault on the South. Congress does nothing. Hundreds of thousands of South Vietnamese...

1974 and Elena Damiani lives a gilded life. Born to wealth and a noted beauty, no door is closed to her, no man can resist her. At twenty-six, she is already onto her third husband when she meets her love match. But he is...

1978 and two 14-year-old white boys are creating dubious art by using a hacksaw to cut multiple quarters into pieces. A child who's just bought ice cream from a Mr. Softee truck witnesses a daylight sidewalk shooting in 1979. At another time, a couple...

1984 Cotton Printed Tote Bag

1985: For Jack Ryan, the Cold War is burning hotA top secret F117 aircraft crashes into the Nevada desert. The Nighthawk is the most advanced fighting machine in the world and the Soviets will do anything to get their hands on its secrets.In East...

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...

1992. Two strangers bring a hospital patient a list of names. They ask him for one more, but it's a question the patient can't answer. Minutes later he is dispatched through the 12th floor window. His death generates some unexpected attention. That attention comes...

1994, rural China: Twelve-year-old Chen Di loves and protects her long-awaited little brother, but when she witnesses an unforgettable scene with her aunties and the authorities, everything she thought she knew about her community is ripped away from her. 2002, Shanghai: A gutsy young...

1994, rural China: Twelve-year-old Chen Di loves and protects her long-awaited little brother, but when she witnesses an unforgettable scene with her aunties and the authorities, everything she thought she knew about her community is ripped away from her.2002, Shanghai: A gutsy young aikido-practising...

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1st November 2006: Alexander Litvinenko is brazenly poisoned in central London. Twenty-two days later he dies, killed from the inside by Polonium - a rare, lethal and highly radioactive substance. His crime? He had made some powerful enemies in Russia.This is the inside story...

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2 BOOKS IN 1! Get whisked away in the #1 bestselling chapter book series of all time! This bindup includes the first two adventures with Jack and Annie as they travel in time and all over the world. . .There's a mysterious tree house...

2 Exciting Hidden Pictures Wooden stylus to reveal the coloured pictures 3 Years+Have lots of fun with this Unicorn Scratch Art Activity Pack, ideal for keeping the unicorn fan in your family entertained. Perfect for rainy play or simply to enjoy in leisure time....

20 easy projects help you to make simple, speedy quilts and quilted objects. Ideal for beginners there is expert advice on short cuts and time-saving tips. For those looking for inspiration there are colourful, modern and fun designs with instructions, illustrations and templates.

20 November, 1979: as morning prayers began, hundreds of hardline Islamist gunmen, armed with rifles smuggled in coffins, stormed the Grand Mosque in Mecca. With thousands of terrified worshippers trapped inside, the result was a bloody siege that lasted two weeks, caused hundreds of...

20 projects using reclaimed timber. If youve always admired experienced makers woodwork but felt too daunted to try wood as a hobby yourself, Woodworking in a Weekend will change your mind. Twenty easy-to-make projects will give you the confidence to give wood a try,...

2007 is the "Year of Rumi," and who better than Coleman Barks, Rumi's unlikely, supremely passionate ambassador, to mark the milestone of this great poet's 800th birthday? Barks, who was recently awarded an honorary doctorate in Persian language and literature by the University of...

2007: at the end of a momentous day, Charlie, Stella and John cross paths under the arches of Paddington Station. As Charlie locks eyes with Stella across the platform, a brief, powerful spark of recognition flashes between them. But they are strangers … aren't...

2008 saw one of the worst financial crises in generations, the global implications of which are still being felt today. Ten years later Ben Bernanke, Timothy Geithner and Hank Paulson reflect on the causes of the crisis, why it was so damaging, and what...

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...

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...

2011 Year is marked with celebrating and paying tribute to iconic 'Faiz Ahmad Faiz'. From February 2011 onward 'Faiz year' was celebrated in Pakistan, India and all over the world.

2012 is the two-hundredth anniversary of the birth of one of our greatest and most important novelists, Charles Dickens. To celebrate we're publishing six of his works in this exclusive and sumptuous boxed set of lavish, clothbound editions, designed by Penguin's own award-winning Coralie...

2013 Randolph Caldecott Honor Awardand In this magical bedtime story, the lyrical narrative echoes a "Runaway Bunny - "like cadence: "Does everything in the world go to sleep?" the little girl asks. In sincere and imaginative dialogue between a not-at-all sleepy child and understanding...

2015 Recipient of the American Book AwardThe first history of the United States told from the perspective of indigenous peoplesand Today in the United States, there are more than five hundred federally recognized Indigenous nations comprising nearly three million people, descendants of the fifteen...

2016 Goodreads Choice Award-winning poet Amanda Lovelace returns inand the witch doesn't burn in this one -and the boldand second book in her "women are some kind of magic" series.and The witch: supernaturally powerful, inscrutably independent, and now-indestructible. These moving, relatable poems encourage resilience...

2016 Silver Nautilus Book Award WinnerBrew your own kombucha at home! With more than 400 recipes, including 268 unique flavor combinations, you can get exactly the taste you want - for a fraction of the store-bought price. This complete guide, from the proprietors of...

2018 marks the 50th anniversary of Corduroy, Don Freeman's story of a beloved teddy bear and his friend Lisa, which has sold millions of copies and delighted children all over the world. In this sequel toand Corduroy, Lisa takes her toy bear to a...

2018 marks the fiftieth anniversary of Dr King's deathCompiled from his own words, this history-making autobiography IS Martin Luther King: the mild-mannered, inquisitive child and student who rebelled against segregation; the dedicated young minister who constantly questioned the depths of his faith and the...

2018 Nautilus Book Awards Silver WinnerWhat if you could unlock a better answer to your most vexing problem-in your workplace, community, or home life-just by changing the question?Talk to creative problem-solvers and they will often tell you, the key to their success is asking...

2019: democracy is eating itself, inequality is skyrocketing, the system is breaking apart. Why?Because in 1962, some bankers in London had an idea that changed the world. That idea was called 'offshore'. It meant that, for the first time, thieves could dream big. They...

2020 has allowed us to pause, observe and self-reflect. We have been provided with the opportunity to shift our perspective, live in the present moment with gratitude, discover the path to our authentic selves, and most importantly, move towards a collective consciousness. 2020: Ripples...