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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...

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...

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...

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...

Can You Keep a Secret? | Emma is like every girl in the world. She has a few little secrets. Secrets from her mother: 1. I lost my virginity in the spare bedroom to Danny Nussbaum while Mum and Dad we...

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 ...

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...

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...

Call of the Penguins | Veronica McCreedy can't resist the promise of adventure . . . Nine-year-old Daisy and nearly ninety-year-old Veronica make an unlikely pair of friends. Fiercely independent and ...

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...

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 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 Tale of the Duelling Neurosurgeons. The History of the Human Brain as Revealed by True Stories | For centuries, scientists had only one way to study the brain: wait for misfortune to strike - stro...

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...

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...

A Good Heart Is Hard to Find | It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man of over forty is in possession of a major defect . . . Cassandra Leigh has woken as if from a bad dream: despera...

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...

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 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,...

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...

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...

A Village Affair | Would you take a chance and set something in motion that could change everything? The Grey House is the final piece in the jigsaw of Alice Jordan's perfect life. It seems to be the ...

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...

The House of Hopes and Dreams | This novel from the Sunday Times bestselling Trisha Ashley will more than satisfy romantic comedy fans. And it also contains recipes! When Carey Revell unexpectedly bec...

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...

Coming Up for Air | On the banks of the River Seine in 1899, a young woman takes her final breath before plunging into the icy water. Although she does not know it, her decision will set in motion an ...

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,...

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, ...

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 ...

Meltdown | For amiable City trader Jimmy Corby money was the new Rock n' Roll. His whole life was a party, adrenalin charged and cocaine fuelled. If he hadn't met Monica he would probably have ended u...

Widow for one year | 'One night when she was four and sleeping in the bottom bunk of her bunk bed, Ruth Cole awoke to the sound of lovemaking - it was coming from her parents' bedroom.' This is the st...

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...

Marrying The Mistress | Merrion Palmer has been Judge Guy Stockdale's mistress for the last seven years and his wife and two grown-up sons know absolutely nothing about her. Up until now, Guy and Merr...

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...

One Summer. America 1927 | Let our favourite writer of narrative non-fiction take you back to a summer when America came of age and changed the world for ever. In summer 1927, America had a booming st...

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 ...

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...

For The Most Beautiful | If you've been gripped by Pat Barker's The Women of Troy and The Silence of the Girls, then For the Most Beautiful is a must-read for you . . . Three thousand years ago a war ...

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...

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...

Blue River, Black Sea | A fascinating and revelatory journey along the Danube to appeal to fans of Michael Palin's New Europe. The Danube is Europe's Amazon. It flows through more countries than any o...

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' ...

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...

The Body Lies | When a young writer accepts a job at a university in the remote countryside, it's meant to be a fresh start. But when one of her students starts sending in chapters from his novel that...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

Sisterland | Identical twins, Kate and Violet are about as unlike as two peas from the same pod can be. Except in one respect - they share a hidden gift. But after Kate inadvertently reveals their sec...

The Running Hare. The Secret Life of Farmland | Traditional ploughland is disappearing. Seven cornfield flowers have become extinct in the last twenty years. Once abundant, the corn bunting and the la...

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 Given Day | 1918. Boston. A city in turmoil as soldiers return home from World War One, bringing with them an epidemic of Spanish influenza. Danny Coughlin is the son of one of Boston's most power...

The Body Lies | When a young writer accepts a job at a university in the remote countryside, it’s meant to be a fresh start. But when one of her students starts sending in chapters from his novel that...

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 ho...

The Five | Polly, Annie, Elizabeth, Catherine and Mary-Jane are famous for the same thing, though they never met. They came from Fleet Street, Knightsbridge, Wolverhampton, Sweden and Wales. They wrot...

The House of Hidden Mothers | Shyama, aged forty-eight, has fallen for a younger man. They want a child together.Meanwhile, in a rural village in India, young Mala, trapped in an oppressive marriage, ...

Code Zero | ZERO, an anonymous activist, has given the world a warning: stop the tech giants before it’s too late.But is anyone listening? Thousands of teenagers are signing up to Freemee, the biggest...

The Secret Ways of Perfume | en-year-old Elena lives in Florence with her cold and distant perfumier grandmother. Only when enveloped in aromas does Elena feel at home, and she has nurtured a unique g...

The Voices Beyond | Summer on the beautiful Swedish island of Oland. Visitors arrive in their thousands, ready to enjoy the calm and relaxation of this paradise. Amongst them is Jonas Kloss, excited a...

The Things We Thought We Knew | Ten years later, eighteen-year-old Ravine Roy spends every day in her room. Completing crosswords and scribbling in her journal, she keeps the outside world exactly whe...

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, ...

Turning for Home | Every year, Robert's family comes together at a rambling old house to celebrate his birthday. Aunts, uncles, distant cousins - it has been a milestone in their lives for decades. Bu...