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Black Swan3353 ₽Diary of a Dog-walker. Time spent following a lead | Edward Stourton muses on the meaning of life and all things canine as he walks his dog Kudu. 'If you are accompanied by a dog you can talk to anyon...
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Black Swan3352 ₽Wedding Girl | At eighteen, Milly was up for anything. So when a friend asked her to marry him just so that he could stay in England, she didn't hesitate. To make it seem real she dressed up in weddin...
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Black Swan4098 ₽Ladies Can’t Climb Ladders. The Pioneering Adventures of the First Professional Women | It is a myth that either of the World Wars liberated women. The Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act of 1919 was o...
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Black Swan3724 ₽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...
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Black Swan3721 ₽Caesar's Last Breath. The Epic Story of The Air Around Us | With every breath, you literally inhale the history of the world. On the ides of March, 44 BC, Julius Caesar died of stab wounds in the Roma...
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Black Swan3352 ₽Snap | Snap Decisions Can Be Dangerous... On a stifling summer's day, eleven-year-old Jack and his two sisters sit in their broken-down car, waiting for their mother to come back and rescue them. Jack...
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Black Swan3301 ₽Expectation | What happened to the women we were supposed to become? Hannah, Cate and Lissa are young, vibrant and inseparable. Living on the edge of a common in East London, their shared world is abl...
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Black Swan4098 ₽The Happiest Kids in the World. Bringing up Children the Dutch Way | Why do: · Dutch babies seem so content, and sleep so well? · Dutch parents let their kids play outside on their own? · The Dutch tr...
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Black Swan3620 ₽The Thief of Time | Matthieu Zela has lived his life well. In fact, he's lived several lives well. Because Matthew Zela's life is characterised by one amazing fact: his body stopped ageing before the ...
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Black Swan2139 ₽The Man Who Forgot His Wife | Lots of husbands forget things: they forget that their wife had an important meeting that morning; they forget to pick up the dry cleaning; some of them even forget their...
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Black Swan2138 ₽The Forest of Wool and Steel | What he experienced that day wasn’t life-changing . . . It was life-making. Tomura is startled by the hypnotic sound of a piano being tuned in his school. It seeps into ...
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Black Swan2351 ₽Storm in a Teacup. The Physics of Everyday Life | Our world is full of patterns. If you pour milk into your tea and give it a stir, you'll see a swirl, a spiral of two fluids, before the two liquids m...
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Black Swan3725 ₽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...
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Black Swan4471 ₽Avenue of Mysteries | Juan Diego's little sister is a mind reader. As a teenager, he struggles to keep anything secret - Lupe knows all the worst things that go through his mind. And sometimes she kno...
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Black Swan3620 ₽Next of Kin | 1936: London is abuzz with gossip about the affair between Edward VIII and Mrs. Simpson. But the king is not the only member of the aristocracy with a hard decision to make. Owen Montign...
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Black Swan3721 ₽The Wrong Case | Milo Milodragovitch is a once-successful divorce lawyer, who now prefers to spend his days drinking and staring out the window. That all changes when Helen Duffy walks into his office...
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Black Swan4034 ₽Still Water. The Deep Life of the Pond | Great nature writing needs to be informative, detailed, accurate, lyrical, and, above all, to instil a sense of gratitude and wonder. John Lewis-Stempel succee...
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Black Swan4036 ₽Gridlock | Gridlock is when a city dies. Killed in the name of freedom. Killed in the name of oil and steel. Choked on carbon monoxide and strangled with a pair of fluffy dice. How did it come to this...
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Black Swan3725 ₽Wake | Remembrance Day 1920: A wartime secret connects three women's lives: Hettie whose wounded brother won't speak. Evelyn who still grieves for her lost lover. And Ada, who has never received an of...
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Black Swan1662 ₽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...
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Black Swan3727 ₽Behind the Scenes at the Museum | 'Little short of a masterpiece...Fizzing with wit and energy, Kate Atkinson's hilarious novel made me laugh and cry' Daily Mail Kate Atkinson's brilliant and unforget...
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Black Swan2576 ₽Chocolat | Try me...Test me...Taste me. When an exotic stranger, Vianne Rocher, arrives in the French village of Lansquenet and opens a chocolate boutique directly opposite the church, Father Reynaud ...
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Black Swan3721 ₽The Unmumsy Mum | This is not a parenting manual. This is real life. The Unmumsy Mum writes candidly about motherhood like it really is: the messy, maddening, hilarious reality, how there is no 'one s...
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Black Swan1826 ₽A Desirable Residence | Liz and Jonathan are in trouble. They can't sell their old house, and they've already moved into their new one. Stuck with two mortgages, mounting debts and a sulky teenage dau...
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Black Swan3352 ₽From a Low and Quiet Sea | Farouk's country has been torn apart by war. Lampy's heart has been laid waste by Chloe. John's past torments him as he nears his end. The refugee. The dreamer. The penitent...
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Black Swan1923 ₽The Things We Thought We Knew | The first memory I have of you is all knickers and legs. You had flipped yourself into a handstand and couldn't get back down. We became best friends, racing slugs, pre...
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Black Swan3353 ₽The Broken | Best friends tell you everything; about their kitchen renovation; about their little girl’s schooling. How one of them is leaving the other for a younger model. Best friends don’t tell li...
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Black Swan3185 ₽Once Upon a River | Some say the river drowned her... Some say it brought her back to life On a dark midwinter's night in an ancient inn on the Thames, the regulars are entertaining themselves by tell...
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Black Swan3667 ₽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...
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Black Swan3985 ₽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...
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Black Swan3352 ₽The Vanishing Hours | This was how I heard the most important story of my life, the thing that decided me, the story that determined who I was in the end. As snow begins to fall outside, two strangers...
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Black Swan2136 ₽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 ...
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Black Swan1684 ₽Into the Water | The addictive new psychological thriller from the author of The Girl on the Train, the runaway Sunday Times No. 1 bestseller and global phenomenon. In the last days before her death, ...
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Black Swan2139 ₽The Ballroom | 1911: Inside an asylum at the edge of the Yorkshire moors, where men and women are kept apart by high walls and barred windows, there is a ballroom vast and beautiful. For one bright ev...
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Black Swan1709 ₽Enter the Aardvark | We all know politics is absurd. But could a Republican be brought down by a stuffed aardvark? Republican congressman Alexander Paine Wilson is determined that nothing will stop hi...
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Black Swan3301 ₽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...
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Black Swan3536 ₽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,...
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Black Swan3352 ₽Old Baggage | What do you do next, after you’ve changed the world? It is 1928. Matilda Simpkin, rooting through a cupboard, comes across a small wooden club – an old possession of hers, unseen for mor...
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Black Swan3184 ₽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...
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Black Swan3184 ₽Cocktails for Three | Three women, smart and successful, working in the fast and furious world of magazines, meet for cocktails and gossip once a month. Roxanne: glamorous, self-confident, with a secr...
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Black Swan3725 ₽The Rector's Wife | It's never too late to find your own way For twenty years, Anna Bouverie, as a priest's wife, has served God and the parish in a variety of ways. She has baked for the Brownies, de...
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Black Swan3724 ₽Overpaid, Oversexed and Over There. How a Few Skinny Brits with Bad Teeth Rocked America | The Beatles landing in New York in February 1964 was the opening shot in a cultural revolution nobody predict...
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Black Swan4099 ₽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...
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Black Swan4471 ₽Extreme Economies | To understand how humans react and adapt to economic change we need to study people who live in harsh environments. From death-row prisoners trading in institutions where money is ...
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Black Swan3725 ₽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 ...
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Black Swan3727 ₽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...
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Black Swan3724 ₽I Am An Island | When Tamsin Calidas first arrives on a remote island in the Scottish Hebrides, it feels like coming home. Disenchanted by London, she and her husband left the city and high-flying car...
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Black Swan3620 ₽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...
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Black Swan3539 ₽I Owe You One | The irresistible standalone from Sophie Kinsella is a story of love, empowerment and an IOU that changes everything . . . Fixie Farr can't help herself. Straightening a crooked object,...
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Black Swan1924 ₽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...
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Black Swan2605 ₽It Must Have Been the Mistletoe | At Christmas, Anything Can Happen... Thea's parents decide to host a big family Christmas in a house by the sea... even though they are, in fact, about to split up. A...
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Black Swan1924 ₽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...
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Black Swan3725 ₽This Other Eden | Small, well appointed future. Semi detached. If the end of the world is nigh, then surely it's only sensible to make alternative arrangements. Certainly the Earth has its points, but...
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Black Swan2317 ₽An Appetite for Wonder. The Making of a Scientist | An early memoir from the world's most famous atheist, and scientist. Born to parents who were enthusiastic naturalists, and linked through his wider...
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Black Swan3727 ₽Balancing Act | Four strong women. All working in a family business. But what happens when they begin to want different things? And what about the men – and the children – in their lives? Susie Moran ...
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Black Swan3725 ₽Next Of Kin | A family in crisis. A catalyst that threatens to change everything... The land running down to the River Dean has been farmed by the Meredith family for generations. Robin Meredith bough...
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Black Swan3352 ₽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...
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Black Swan3352 ₽The Fire Starters | Dr Jonathan Murray fears his new-born daughter is not as harmless as she seems. Sammy Agnew is wrestling with his dark past, and fears the violence in his blood lurks in his son, t...
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Black Swan3725 ₽Second Honeymoon | When the children have come and gone, can a marriage pick up where it left off? Ben is, at last, leaving home. At twenty-two, he's the youngest of the family. His mother, Edie, an a...
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Black Swan4096 ₽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...
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Black Swan3352 ₽Mad Blood Stirring | 1815: The war is over but for the inmates at Dartmoor Prison, peace - like home - is still a long way away. On the eve of the year 1815, the captured sailors of the Eagle arrive a...
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Black Swan1924 ₽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...
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Black Swan3349 ₽A Dangerous Crossing | England, September 1939 Lily Shepherd boards a cruise liner for a new life in Australia and is plunged into a world of cocktails, jazz and glamorous friends. But as the sun beat...
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Black Swan3985 ₽The Cider House Rules | 'The reason Homer Wells kept his name was that he came back to St Cloud's so many times, after so many failed foster homes, that the orphanage was forced to acknowledge Homer's...