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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....

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...

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...

Coastliners | On the tiny Breton island of Le Devin, life has remained almost unchanged for over a hundred years. For generations, two rival communities have fought for control of the island's only be...

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...

Shop Girl. A Memoir | Young Mary Newton, born into a large Irish family in a small Watford semi, was always getting into trouble. When she wasn’t choking back fits of giggles at Holy Communion or eati...

Other People's Children | For eight-year-old Rufus life has become complicated. His parents, Josie and Tom, have divorced and are setting off on separate paths. But now, other people have had to becom...

The Last Good Kiss | Meet Private Detective C. W. Sughrue. Private detectives are supposed to find missing persons and solve crimes. But more often than not Sughrue is the one committing the crimes – ...

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 Country Road, A Tree | Paris, 1939: The pavement rumbles with the footfall of Nazi soldiers marching along the Champs Elysees. A young writer, recently arrived from Ireland to make his mark, smokes ...

Away With the Penguins | A Richard & Judy Book Club and BBC Radio 2 Book Club pick. A truly feel-good book club read - a #1 bestseller in ebook and audio! 'This year's Eleanor Oliphant . . . Funny, bi...

Lament for the Fallen | A strange craft falls from the stars and crashes into the jungle near an isolated West African community. Inside, the locals discover the broken body of a man unlike any they h...

The Princess Diarist | When Carrie Fisher discovered the journals she kept during the filming of the first Star Wars movie, she was astonished to see what they had preserved - plaintive love poems, un...

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...

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...

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...

Setting Free The Bears | 'The brown bears paced, brushing their thick coats against the bars; their heads swayed low to the ground, in rhythm with some ritual of stealth they were born knowing and poi...

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...

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...

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...

Beneath the Earth | In this collection of twelve dark, unerring and surprising short stories, John Boyne explores the extremities of the human condition in all its brilliance and brutality. The secret...

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...

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...

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 ...

Transcription | In 1940, eighteen-year old Juliet Armstrong is reluctantly recruited into the world of espionage. Sent to an obscure department of MI5 tasked with monitoring the comings and goings of ...

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...

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...

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 ...

For the Winner | Some three thousand years ago, in a time before history, the warriors of Greece journeyed to the ends of the earth in the greatest expedition the world had ever seen. One woman fought...

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...

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 ...

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 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...

Lost | How can you solve a crime if you can't remember the clues? There is an explosion at a military ball. The casualties are rushed to hospital in eight ambulances, but only seven vehicles arrive. C...

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...

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 Authenticity Project | Six strangers with one thing in common: their lives aren't always what they make them out to be. What would happen if they told the truth instead? Julian Jessop is tired of ...

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...

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...

Started Early, Took My Dog | The fourth Jackson Brodie novel: literary crime from the prizewinning number-one bestselling author of Big Sky and Transcription. A day like any other for security chief T...

Paris Revealed. The Secret Life of a City | PARIS - one of the most visited cities in the world. BUT do you know ... Which is the most romantic spot to say 'je't'aime'? And the sexiest? Where to see f...

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...

The Smiling Man | A body has been found on the fourth floor of Manchester's vast and empty Palace Hotel. The man is dead. And he is smiling. The tags have been removed from his clothes. His teeth have...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

AIQ. How artificial intelligence works and how we can harness its power for a better world | What is AIQ? How does it work? Most importantly, how can it help us? Two leading data scientists offer an u...

A Prayer For Owen Meany | 'If you care about something you have to protect it. If you're lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.' Summer, 1953. In the sma...

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...

Alone Time. Four cities, four seasons and the pleasures of solitude | The average adult spends about a third of his or her waking time alone. Yet research suggests we aren't very good at using, never ...

Different Class | After thirty years at St Oswald's Grammar in North Yorkshire, Latin master Roy Straitley has seen all kinds of boys come and go - the clowns, the rebels, the underdogs, and those he ...

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...

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 ...

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...

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 ...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

The Wild Life. A Year of Living on Wild Food | The Wild Life is John Lewis-Stempel's account of twelve months eating only food shot, caught or foraged from the fields, hedges, and brooks of his forty-...

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...

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, ...