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The Magic of Reality. How we know what's really true | Magic takes many forms. The ancient Egyptians explained the night by suggesting that the goddess Nut swallowed the sun. The Vikings believed a ra...

The Light Between Us | Thea and Isaac have always been friends, despite his constant jokes, despite her stubborn belief in time travel . . . despite the distance between them. But when Isaac returns h...

Daughters-in-Law | When you've dedicated your life to your children, what happens when they grow up? Rachel loves being at the centre of her large family. She has devoted herself fiercely to bringing ...

Duende. A Journey In Search of Flamenco | Having pursued a conventional enough path through school and university, Jason Webster was all set to enter the world of academe as a profession. But when his...

Remember Me? | Lexi wakes up in a hospital bed after a car accident, thinking she's twenty-five with crooked teeth and a disastrous love life. But, to her disbelief, she learns it's actually three yea...

The Book of Negroes | Based on a true story, Lawrence Hill's epic novel spans three continents and six decades to bring to life a dark and shameful chapter in our history through the story of one brav...

The Water-Method Man | Fred 'Bogus' Trumper is a wayward knight-errant in the battle of the sexes and the pursuit of happiness. He also happens to have a complaint more serious than Portnoy's. Yet he ...

The House of Hidden Mothers | How Far Would You Go to Get the Life You Can't Have? Shyama, aged forty-eight, has fallen for a younger man. They want a child together. Meanwhile, in a rural village in ...

Surprise Me | Those we think we know best can sometimes surprise us the most . . . After being together for ten years, Sylvie and Dan have a comfortable home, fulfilling jobs, beautiful twin girls, an...

How To Find Home | Molly has lived on the streets for nearly a decade. She has close friends but spends most of her nights sleeping rough in dangerous places. So when a new acquaintance invites her on...

Slumdog Millionaire | A former tiffinboy from Mumbai, Ram Mohammad Thomas, has just got twelve questions correct on a TV quiz show to win a cool one billion rupees. But he is brutally slung in a priso...

The Secretary | She knows all your secrets. But will she keep them? Look around you. Who holds the most power in the room? Is it the one who speaks loudest, who looks the part, who has the most money,...

The Shut Eye | Five footprints are the only sign that Daniel Buck was ever here. Yesterday they were a family just like any other: Anna and James, and their little boy, Daniel. But in one careless mom...

The Sleepwalker | 'He said he didn't remember killing them…' As a series of rolling blackouts plunge the city into darkness, Detective Aidan Waits sits on an abandoned hospital ward, watching a mass m...

Waking Up. Searching for Spirituality Without Religion | For the millions of people who want spirituality without religion, Sam Harris's new book is a guide to meditation as a rational spiritual pract...

Written From the Heart | The witty, weird and wonderful abound in this early romantic comedy by Sunday Times bestselling author Trisha Ashley. Tina Devino makes more money teaching people to write tha...

Crooked Heart | When Noel Bostock - aged ten, no family - is evacuated from London to escape the Blitz, he winds up in St Albans with Vera Sedge - thiry-six, drowning in debts. Always desperate for mo...

Ellie and the Harpmaker | Sometimes it takes a chance encounter to discover what happiness really is . . . Meet Dan: Dan needs peace and order. He likes perfectly triangular sandwiches, the way coffee...

The Last Days of Rabbit Hayes | Here is a truth that can’t be escaped: for Mia ‘Rabbit’ Hayes, life is coming to an end... Rabbit Hayes loves her life, ordinary as it is, and the extraordinary people ...

The Incarnations | Beijing, 2008, the Olympics are coming, but as taxi driver Wang circles the city’s congested streets, he feels barely alive. His daily grind is suddenly interrupted when he finds a ...

The Wrong Boy | It's 1991. Raymond Marks is a normal boy, from a normal family, in a normal northern town. Only lately, he's been feeling dead down. His dad left home after falling in love with a five...

Perfect | Summer, 1972: In the claustrophobic heat, eleven-year-old Byron and his friend begin 'Operation Perfect', a hapless mission to rescue Byron's mother from impending crisis. Winter, present da...

The Waiter | Exquisitely observed and wickedly playful, The Waiter is a novel for lovers of food, wine, and of European sensibilities, but also for anyone who spends time in restaurants, on either sid...

My Wild and Sleepless Nights. A Mother's Story | Mother to five children, Clover Stroud has navigated family life across two decades, both losing and finding herself. In her touching, provocative and ...

This House is Haunted | 1867. On a dark and chilling night Eliza Caine arrives in Norfolk to take up her position as governess at Gaudlin Hall. As she makes her way across the station platform, a pair...

The Electric Kool Aid Acid Test | I looked around and people's faces were distorted...lights were flashing everywhere...the screen at the end of the room had three or four different films on it at onc...

Last Night in Twisted River | In 1954, in the cookhouse of a logging and sawmill settlement in northern New Hampshire, a twelve-year-old boy mistakes the local constable's girlfriend for a bear. Both ...

The Covent Garden Ladies | In 1757, a down-and-out Irish poet, the head waiter at the Shakespear's Head Tavern in Covent Garden, and a celebrated London courtesan became bound together by the publicat...

The Weight of Love | London, 1996. Robin and Ruth meet in the staff room of an East London school. Robin, desperate for a real connection, instantly falls in love. Ruth, recently bereaved and fragile,...

Strange Flowers | In 1973, twenty-year-old Moll Gladney takes a morning bus from her rural home and disappears. Bewildered and distraught, Paddy and Kit must confront an unbearable prospect: that they...

Before I Saw You | Alice and Alife couldn't be more different. He's charming, talkative and outgoing. She's reserved, efficient and a workaholic. Forced together by circumstance, they can't see each o...

The First Casualty | Flanders, June 1917: a British officer and celebrated poet, is shot dead, killed not by German fire, but while recuperating from shell shock well behind the lines. A young English...

Knowledge of Angels | A beautiful, magical novel. It is, perhaps, the fifteenth century and the ordered tranquillity of a Mediterranean island is about to be shattered by the appearance of two outside...

The Life of Stuff. Possessions, obsessions and the mess we leave behind | What do our possessions say about us? Why do we project such meaning onto them? What becomes of the things we leave behind? On...

A Leap of Faith | Sappho Jones stopped counting birthdays when she reached thirty but, even with her hazy grip on mathematics, she realises that she's on the slippery slope to the big four-oh! With th...

Life on the Edge. The Coming of Age of Quantum Biology | The startling discovery that the weirdness of quantum mechanics provides the vital spark that ignites life Life is the most extraordinary pheno...

Where the Light Gets In | Sometimes the cracks in your heart can be mended in unexpected ways . . . If Lorna's learned one thing, it's that courage is something you paint on like red lipstick, even wh...

Crippen | July 1910: The grisly remains of Cora Crippen, music hall singer and wife of Dr Hawley Crippen, are discovered in the cellar of 39 Hilldrop Crescent, Camden. But the Doctor and his mistress,...

Twenties Girl | If you suddenly had a friend that only you could see or hear, what would you do? You could worry that your stressful life has tipped you over the edge and you have lost the plot, big t...

Brother & Sister | Nathalie and David have been good and dutiful children to their parents, and now, grown-up, with their own families, they are still close to one another. Brother and sister. Except ...

The Whispering House | When I think of Byrne Hall - which I do more often than I'd like - it's the dead weight of the heatwave that comes back to me, and the smell of things going rotten. Freya Lyell ...

Hunt | Sometimes to catch a killer you have to become the prey. The Foreign Secretary is being held under the Terrorism Act. He will answer the police's questions on one condition - they let him speak...

Shopaholic & Baby | Becky's life is blooming! She's working at London's newest fashion store The Look, house-hunting with husband Luke (her secret wish is a Shoe Room)... and she's pregnant! She could...

Shopaholic & Sister | Becky thought being married to Luke Brandon would be one big Tiffany box of happiness. But to be honest, it's not quite as dreamy as she'd hoped. The trouble started on honeymoon...

A Son Of The Circus | 'The doctor was fated to go back to Bombay; he would keep returning again and again - if not forever, at least for as long as there were dwarves in the circus.' Born a Parsi in B...

American By Day | She knew it was a weird place. She’d heard the stories, seen the movies, read the books. But now police Chief Inspector Sigrid Odegard has to leave her native Norway and actually go ...

Final Cut | Blackwood Bay. An ordinary place, home to ordinary people. It used to be a buzzing seaside destination. But now, ravaged by the effects of dwindling tourism and economic downturn, it's a g...

The Music Shop | 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 c...

The Life And Times Of The Thunderbolt Kid. Travels Through my Childhood | From one of our most beloved and bestselling authors, a vivid, nostalgic, and utterly hilarious memoir of growing up in the 19...

Human Croquet | The brilliant and profound second novel from the three-times Costa prizewinner and number one bestseller Kate Atkinson. 'Vivid, richly imaginative, hilarious and frightening by turns' ...

Life After Life | This is the winner of the costa novel award. What if you had the chance to live your life again and again, until you finally got it right? During a snowstorm in England in 1910, a ba...

Knife Edge | You never know where danger may come from... 6.45 am. A sweltering London rush hour. And in the last 27 minutes, seven people have been murdered. In a series of coordinated attacks, seven...

The Men And The Girls | At first their ages made no difference... Julia Hunter and Kate Bain have found true happiness with men old enough to be their fathers. Julia organises her husband Hugh and the...

Brick Lane | Still in her teenage years, Nazneen finds herself in an arranged marriage with a disappointed older man. Away from her Bangladeshi village, home is now a cramped flat in a high-rise block...

The Road to Little Dribbling. More Notes from a Small Island | Twenty years ago, Bill Bryson went on a trip around Britain to celebrate the green and kindly island that had become his adopted country....

Miss Benson's Beetle | It is 1950. In a devastating moment of clarity, Margery Benson abandons her dead-end job and advertises for an assistant to accompany her on an expedition. She is going to trave...

A Fabulous Creation. How the LP Saved Our Lives | The era of the LP began in 1967, with 'Sgt Pepper'; The Beatles didn't just collect together a bunch of songs, they Made An Album. Henceforth, everybo...

Life Isn't All Ha Ha Hee Hee | There's no such thing as a happy ending , is there …? Sunita - perfect housewife - is married to Akash, but is her marriage what it seems? Chila - warm, loveable - has m...

Unexpected Lessons in Love | What happens when 'I do' turns into 'I don't know'? Jeannie always wanted to fall in love, and now she's finally got the whirlwind romance she dreamed of. Dan's gorgeous, ...

Sleeping Arrangements | Chloe needs a holiday. She's sick of making wedding dresses and her partner is having trouble at work. Her wealthy friend Gerard has offered the loan of his luxury villa in Spa...

Girl From The South | Can long-term hopes and dreams hold fast in the face of an exotic wind of change? Gillon - red-haired, intelligent, vulnerable - comes to London to escape from the demands of her...

The Beautiful Dead | They wanted the same things. Death - and an audience. Eve Singer makes her living from death. As a TV crime reporter, she'll go to any length to get the latest scoop. But when a t...

Follow Me To Ground | In house in a wood, Ada and her father live peacefully, tending to their garden and the wildlife in it. They are not human though. Ada was made by her father from the Ground, a u...

The Lollipop Shoes | The Lollipop Shoes picks up the story of Vianne and her daughters and takes us on a magical and spellbinding journey to Paris. Exquisitely written with the fluid and beautiful pro...