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Guerra | Completing his edgy Spanish trilogy, Jason Webster unearths the secrets of the Spanish Civil War, and turns it into a personal quest for its dark legacy in today's Spain. After twelve years i...

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...

The House of Special Purpose | Russia, 1915: Sixteen year old farmer's son Georgy Jachmenev steps in front of an assassin's bullet intended for a senior member of the Russian Imperial Family and is in...

Work Like a Woman. A Manifesto For Change | Are you ready to be your best self at work? Packed with advice, tips and decades of business experience from Mary Portas, this is a book for every one of us...

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 Fourth Hand | 'Imagine a young man on his way to a less-than-thirty-second event - the loss of his left hand, long before he reached middle age.' While reporting a story from India, a New York tel...

A Spanish Lover | Two lives intertwined and seemingly harmonious. One decision that changes everything. Lizzie and Frances are twins, together forming part of a unit. Or at least that's the way Lizzie...

The Other Family | Chrissie, in the twenty-three years she'd been together with Richie, had always believed that he loved her. He loved their three daughters and their house in Highgate and their happ...

Gone | Four strangers are missing. Left at their last-known locations are birthday cards that read: Your gift is the game. Dare to play? The police aren't worried - it's just a game. But the families ...

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...

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...

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...

High Society | The war on drugs has been lost but for want of the courage to face the fact that the whole world is rapidly becoming one vast criminal network. From pop stars and princes to crack whore...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

Wedding Night | It's all gone wrong with the man Lottie thought was Mr Right. Then out of the blue she gets a call from her first love. She decides it muct be Fate, and rushes off to marry him and rek...

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...

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...

Nothing is Real. The Beatles Were Underrated And Other Sweeping Statements About Pop | Pop music's a simple pleasure. Is it catchy? Can you dance to it? Do you fancy the singer? But what's fascinating...

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 ...

Five Rivers Met on a Wooded Plain | 'There exists in all of us a song waiting to be sung which is as heart-stopping and vertiginous as the peak of the cathedral. That is the meaning of this quiet city...

The Remarkable Life of the Skin. An intimate journey across our surface | How does our diet affect our skin? What makes the skin age? And why can't we tickle ourselves? Providing a cover for our delic...

The Stray Cats of Homs | I don't know how you've made it this far . . . Sami's childhood is much like any other - school with his friends, dinners with his family, playing with his pets (stray cats an...

Turning for Home | 'Isn't the life of any person made up out of the telling of two tales, after all? The whole world makes more sense if you remember that everyone has two lives, their real lives and ...

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...

Not The End Of The World | A stunning collection of short stories by the three-times Costa prizewinner Not the End of the World is Kate Atkinson's first collection of short stories. Playful and profou...

The Congress of Rough Riders | William Cody grows up surrounded by his father's tales of Buffalo Bill, to whom he is distantly related, and his fantasies of the Wild West. Though he escapes his herita...

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...

Paradox. The Nine Greatest Enigmas in Physics | Jim Al-Khalili is about to untangle the world's greatest science conundrums... How does the fact that it gets dark at night prove the Universe must have...

Longbourn | It is wash-day for the housemaids at Longbourn House, and Sarah's hands are chapped and raw. Domestic life below stairs, ruled with a tender heart and an iron will by Mrs Hill the housekee...

A Ladder to the Sky | You’ve heard the old proverb about ambition, that it’s like setting a ladder to the sky. It can lead to a long and painful fall. If you look hard enough, you will find stories pr...

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...

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...

Stark | Ben Elton's earth-shattering debut novel. Stark is a secret consortium with more money than God, and the social conscience of a dog on a croquet lawn. What's more, it knows the Earth is dying....

Icons of England | This celebration of the English countryside does not only focus on the rolling green landscapes and magnificent monuments that set England apart from the rest of the world. Many of ...

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...

Peaches for Monsieur le Cure | It isn't often you receive a letter from the dead. When Vianne Rocher receives a letter from beyond the grave, she allows the wind to blow her back to the village in sou...

The Night You Left | It only takes a moment to unravel a perfect life . . . When Grace's fiance vanishes without a trace the night after proposing, her life is turned upside down. But has Nick walked ...

My Not So Perfect Life | Until her not-so-perfect life comes crashing down when her mega-successful boss Demeter gives her the sack. All Katie's hopes are shattered. She has to move home to Somerset, ...

Fat Cow, Fat Chance. The science and psychology of size | At sixty-four, Jenni Murray's weight had become a disability. She avoided the scales, she wore a uniform of baggy black clothes, refused to ma...

Life and other Happy Endings | Three letters. Two mistakes. One Last chance. When Jennifer Cole is told she has three months to live she decides to write three letters sharing the desires, fears and f...

The Unlikely Pilgrimage Of Harold Fry | When Harold Fry nips out one morning to post a letter, leaving his wife hoovering upstairs, he has no idea that he is about to walk from one end of the country ...

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...

Freedom Next Time | John Pilger is one of the world's pre-eminent investigative journalists and documentary film-makers. His best-selling books of reportage, which include Heroes and Hidden Voices, ha...

The Curious Bird Lover’s Handbook | You don't have to be a dedicated birdwatcher to be a bird lover. Millions of us love the sight and sound of them. And yet most of us know very little about their re...

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...

Passchendaele. The Bloody Battle That Nearly Lost The Allies The War | One hundred years on... On 18 July 1917, a heavy artillery barrage was unleashed by the Allied forces against an entrenched Germa...

A History of Loneliness | Odran Yates enters Clonliffe Seminary in 1972 after his mother informs him that he has a vocation to the priesthood. He goes in full of ambition and hope, dedicated to his st...

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...

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...

Almost Like A Whale. The Origin of Species Updated | The Language of the Genes and In the Blood revisits Darwin's The Origin of Species, and updates it for the twenty-first century. In his new book, S...

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...

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...

Parliament: The Biography. Volume II - Reform | Two centuries of reform, revolution and political intrigue in Chris Bryant's epic biography of Parliament Over the last two hundred years Parliament has...

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 Solitude of Prime Numbers | A prime number is inherently a solitary thing: it can only be divided by itself, or by one; it never truly fits with another. Alice and Mattia also move on their own ax...

Blind Faith | A dark, savagely comic novel from the bestselling author of Chart Throb. Imagine a world where everyone knows everything about everybody. Where 'sharing' is valued above all, and privacy...

A God in Ruins | The stunning companion to Kate Atkinson's #1 bestseller Life After Life, "one of the best novels I've read this century" (Gillian Flynn). "He had been reconciled to death during the w...

The January Man. A Year of Walking Britain | The January Man is the story of a year of walks that was inspired by a song, Dave Goulder's 'The January Man'. Month by month, season by season and region ...

All That Remains. A Life In Death | Sue Black confronts death every day. As a Professor of Anatomy and Forensic Anthropology, she focuses on mortal remains in her lab, at burial sites, at scenes of vi...

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...