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Birdcage Walk | It is 1792 and Europe is seized by political turmoil and violence. Lizzie Fawkes has grown up in Radical circles where each step of the French Revolution is followed with eager idealis...

The Lauras | As Ma and Alex make their way from Virginia to California, each new state prompts stories and secrets of a life before Alex. Together they put to rest unsettled scores, heal old wounds, a...

The Wardrobe Mistress | JANUARY 1947.London is in ruins, there’s nothing to eat, and it’s the coldest winter in living memory.To make matters worse, Charlie Grice, one of the great stage actors of the...

The Readymade Thief | An addictive literary puzzle that introduces an unforgettable young heroine plunged into the twisted world of a secret society with a dark agenda. Lee Cuddy is seventeen years ol...

Exposure | A deceptively simple masterpiece' Independent on Sunday 'Will haunt you for months, if not years' Guardian 'Outstanding ... if you only buy one book, make it this one' Good Housekeeping The...

Uncommon Type | A small-town newspaper columnist with old-fashioned views of the modern world. A World War II veteran grappling with his emotional and physical scars. A second-rate actor plunged into ...

The Twelve Tribes of Hattie | Fifteen years old and blazing with the hope of a better life, Hattie Shepherd fled the horror of the American South on a dawn train bound for Philadelphia. Hatties is a t...

Tower. An Epic History of the Tower of London | No building has been more intimately involved in the story of Britain than the Tower of London - a mighty, brooding stronghold in the very heart of the ...

Also Human. The Inner Lives of Doctors | Doctors are the people we turn to in our darkest moments. We trust them with our lives. But what does that stress do to a person? What does it take to confront...

The Submission | A jury gathers in Manhattan to select a memorial for the victims of a devastating terrorist attack. Their fraught deliberations complete, the jurors open the envelope containing the a...

In A Land Of Plenty | In a small town in the middle of England, the aftermath of the Second World War brings change. For ambitious industrialist Charles Freeman, it offers new opportunities and marria...

Kill ’Em All | It is 2017 – the time of Trump, Brexit and fake news. And time for the return of Steven Stelfox, former A&R man who made his millions from a hit reality TV show. Now Stelfox works occas...

Arcadia | In the fields of western New York State in the 1970s, on the grounds of a decaying mansion called Arcadia House, a few dozen idealists set out to live off the land. Abe and Hannah's only chi...

The Peterloo Massacre | The Peterloo Massacre is a revealing and compelling account of one of the darkest days in Britain's social history. On 16 August 1819, a strong force of yeomanry and regular ca...

The Four-Dimensional Human. Ways of Being in the Digital World | We spend more time than ever online, and the digital revolution is rewiring our sense of what it means to be human. Smartphones let us ...

Staring at God. Britain in the Great War | A major new work of history on the profound changes in British society during the First World War The Great War saw millions of men volunteer for or be recru...

Florida | In these vigorous stories, Lauren Groff brings her electric storytelling to a world in which storms, snakes and sinkholes lurk at the edge of everyday life, but the greater threats are of a ...

The Ten Types of Human. Who We Are and Who We Can Be | We all have ten types of human in our head. They're the people we become when we face life's most difficult decisions. We want to believe there a...

Testimony | Robbie Robertson finally tells his own spellbinding story of the band that changed music history, his extraordinary personal journey, and his creative friendships with some of the greatest...

House of Gold | VIENNA, 1911. Greta Goldbaum has always dreamed of being free to choose her own life's path, but the Goldbaum family, one of the wealthiest in the world, has different expectations. Un...

Player One | A real-time five-hour story set in an airport cocktail lounge during a global disaster. Five disparate people are trapped inside: Karen, a single mother waiting for her online date; Rick,...

I Am Sovereign | How long does it take to change the world? Could it happen in approximately twenty minutes? Charles, a forty-year-old teddy bear maker, is trying to sell his late mother's house, help...

Legacy | A panoramic new history of modern Britain, as told through the story of one extraordinary family, and one groundbreaking company. This is the story of how a family transformed themselves from...

The Sunshine Cruise Company | Susan Frobisher and Julie Wickham are turning sixty. Susan has just discovered that her recently deceased husband was not only a swinger but had run up a fortune in debts...

The Museum of You | This summer, Clover Quinn wants to find the missing pieces of her story. Clover Quinn was a surprise. She used to imagine she was the good kind, now she's not sure. She'd like to a...

Romantic Outlaws. The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley | English feminist Mary Wollstonecraft and author Mary Shelley were mother and daughter, yet these two extraordinary w...

The Age of Decadence. Britain 1880 to 1914 | The folk-memory of Britain in the years before the Great War is of a powerful, contented, orderly and thriving country. She commanded a vast empire. She be...

The Green Road Into The Trees | In the past, Hugh Thomson has written acclaimed books about Peru, Mexico and the Indian Himalaya. Now he returns to the most exotic and foreign country of them all – hi...

Spill Simmer Falter Wither | You find me on a Tuesday, on my Tuesday trip to town. A note sellotaped to the inside of the jumble-shop window: COMPASSIONATE & TOLERANT OWNER. A PERSON WITHOUT OTHER PET...

Disputed Land | Leonard and Rosemary Cannon summon their middle-aged offspring, along with partners and children, to the family home in the Welsh Marches for the Christmas holiday. As the gathered fam...

This Storm | A brilliant historical crime novel, set in Los Angeles and Mexico during the pulse-pounding aftermath of the attack on Pearl Harbor. January, ’42. L.A. reels behind the shock of Pearl Har...

The Unseen World | Boston, 1980 Ada Sibelius is twelve years old and home-schooled. Her days are spent in a lab with her father David, a computer science professor, and the brilliant minds of his coll...

A Song for Issy Bradley | Meet the Bradleys. In lots of ways, they're a normal family: Zippy is sixteen and in love for the first time; Al is thirteen and dreams of playing for Liverpool. And in some ...

The Divide. A Brief Guide to Global Inequality and its Solutions | · The richest eight people control more wealth than the poorest half of the world combined. · Today, 60 per cent of the world's popul...

The Amateurs | Gary is a sweet and decent man. Only two things would improve his life - having children with his gorgeous wife Pauline, and a lower golf handicap. Both are unlikely. Pauline is wonderi...

Mudbound | When Henry McAllan moves his city-bred wife, Laura, to a cotton farm in the Mississippi Delta in 1946, she finds herself in a place both foreign and frightening. Henry's love of rural life ...

Delicate Edible Birds | Lauren Groff's critically acclaimed The Monsters of Templeton was shortlisted for the Orange Broadband Award for New Writers 2008, and critics hailed her as an enormous talent ...

The Shore | The Shore. A collection of small islands sticking out from the coast of Virginia into the Atlantic Ocean that has been home to generations of fierce and resilient women. Sanctuary to some ...

Generation A | In the near future bees are extinct - until five unconnected individuals, in different parts of the world, are stung. Immediately snatched up by ominous figures in hazmat suits, interro...

The Greatcoat | In the winter of 1952, Isabel Carey moves to the East Riding of Yorkshire with her husband Philip, a GP. With Philip spending long hours on call, Isabel finds herself isolated and lone...

The Monsters of Templeton | Willie Upton returns to her ancestral home of Templeton, New York after a disastrous affair with her married archaeology professor. The same day, Willie discovers a hard tr...

Chasing Venus. The Race to Measure the Heavens | On two days in 1761 and 1769 hundreds of astronomers pointed their telescopes towards the skies to observe a rare astronomical event: the transit of Ve...

The F*ck-it List | Frank Brill, a retired small-town newspaper editor, has just been given a terminal diagnosis. Rather than compile a bucket list of all the things he's ever wanted to do in his life,...

Jasper Jones | Summer, 1965. Late one night, thirteen-year-old Charlie Bucktin is startled by a knock on his window. His visitor is Jasper Jones. Rebellious, mixed-race and solitary, Jasper is intrigu...

High Dive | 'A meticulous and gripping reimagination of the Brighton bomb' Observer, Best Novels of 2015 In September 1984, a man calling himself Roy Walsh checked into The Grand Hotel in Brighton and...

Worst. Person. Ever. | A razor-sharp portrait of a morally bankrupt and gleefully wicked modern man, Worst. Person. Ever. is Douglas Coupland's gloriously filthy, side-splittingly funny and unforgetta...

Exposure | The Cold War is at its height, and a spy may be a friend or neighbour, colleague or lover. At the end of a suburban garden, in the pouring rain, a woman buries a briefcase deep in the earth...

Caught in the Revolution. Petrograd, 1917 | 'A past more dramatic than Chekhov, more tragic than Tolstoy and more romantic than Pasternak' Between the first revolution in February 1917 and Lenin's Bol...

Sex and Vanity | When Lucie Tang Churchill meets George Zao at a lavish wedding in Capri, she can't stand him. She can't stand that he gallantly offers to trade hotel rooms with her so she can have a ...

The German Heiress | Essen, 1946. Clara Falkenberg, once an iconic heiress, is on the run. With the city in ruins and her dear friend Elisa missing, Clara enlists the help of Jakob, a charming young r...

Fourth of July Creek | A dark and powerful debut novel set in the hardscrabble American heartlands. 'If I knew for a certain’ty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me ...

Friends And Heroes | Athens, 1941. Harriet Pringle feverishly awaits news of her husband, trapped in the spoilt city of Bucharest. Yet when the young couple are reunited, Guy once again becomes absorb...

Leap In. A Woman, Some Waves, and the Will to Swim | Alexandra Heminsley thought she could swim. She really did. It may have been because she could run. It may have been because she wanted to swim; or...

How To Be Human | A disturbing look at obsession, delusion and the way boundaries between the domestic and the wild can blur, HOW TO BE HUMAN marks the arrival of an incredible new voice. SHORTLISTED ...

Salt Houses | On the eve of her daughter Alia’s wedding, Salma reads the girl’s future in a cup of coffee dregs. Although she keeps her predictions to herself that day, they soon come to pass in the w...

Radicals | In the last few years the world has changed in unexpected ways. The power of radical ideas and groups is growing. What was once considered extreme is now the mainstream. But what is life li...

The Murderer of Warren Street. The True Story of a Nineteenth-Century Revolutionary | On 8 December 1854, Emmanuel Barthelemy visited 73 Warren Street in the heart of radical London for the very last ...

Tinkers | An old man lies dying. Confined to bed in his living room, he sees the walls around him begin to collapse, the windows come loose from their sashes, and the ceiling plaster fall off in great...

My Age of Anxiety | As recently as thirty-five years ago, anxiety did not exist as a diagnostic category. Today, it is the most common form of officially classified mental illness. Scott Stossel grace...

Heft | Former academic Arthur Opp weighs 550 pounds and hasn't left his rambling Brooklyn home in a decade. Twenty miles away, in Yonkers, seventeen-year-old Kel Keller navigates life as the poor kid ...

Tamed. Ten Species that Changed Our World | The extraordinary story of the species that became our allies. Dogs became our companions Wheat fed a booming population Cattle gave us meat and milk Maize ...

Bright Air Black | In brilliant poetic prose Bright Air Black brings us aboard the ship Argo for its epic return journey across the Black Sea from Persia's Colchis - where Medea flees her home and fat...

The Brother Gardeners. Botany, Empire and the Birth of an Obsession | A wonderfully readable investigation of the origins of the modern garden in 18th-century England. Popular history at its finest. O...

The Panopticon | Fifteen-year old Anais Hendricks is smart, funny and fierce, but she is also a child who has been let down, or worse, by just about every adult she has ever met. Sitting in the back o...