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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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

Running Like a Girl | Alexandra Heminsley had high hopes: the arse of an athlete, the waist of a supermodel, the speed of a gazelle. Defeated by gyms and bored of yoga, she decided to run. Her first a...

The Second Coming | God takes a look at the Earth around the time of the Renaissance and everything looks pretty good – so he takes a holiday. In Heaven-time this is just a week’s fishing trip, but on...

The Lie | Set during and just after the First World War, The Lie is an enthralling, heart-wrenching novel of love, memory and devastating loss by one of the UK's most acclaimed storytellers. Cornwall,...

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...

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...

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 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...

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...

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...

Tigerman | Sergeant Lester Ferris is a good man in need of a rest. He’s spent a lot of his life being shot at. He has no family, he’s nearly forty, burned out and about to be retired. The island of Ma...

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...

Girl, Balancing | Haunting, uplifting, beautiful: the final work from Helen Dunmore Helen Dunmore passed away in June 2017, leaving behind this remarkable collection of short stories. With her tradema...

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...

King John. Treachery, Tyranny and the Road to Magna Carta | The brilliantly compelling new biography of the treacherous and tyrannical King John, published to coincide with the 800th anniversary of Ma...

Made for Love | Hazel has just moved into a trailer park of senior citizens, with her father and Diane - his sex doll companion. Life with Hazel's father is strained at best, but it's got to be better...

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 ...

Before You Know It. The Unconscious Reasons We Do What We Do | 'John Bargh's Before You Know It moves our understanding of the mysteries of human behaviour one giant step forward. A brilliant and conv...

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 ...

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...

A Map of the Invisible. Journeys into Particle Physics | What is the universe really made of? How do we know? Follow the map of the invisible to find out... Over the last sixty years, scientists aroun...

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...

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...

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 ...

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 ...

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...

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 ...

Common Ground | After moving from London to a new home in Yorkshire, and about to become a father for the first time, Rob Cowen finds himself in unfamiliar territory. Disoriented, hemmed in by winter ...

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...

Cold Hands | You thought you could leave the past behind. Think again. Donnie Miller counts himself lucky. Living in a beautiful, spacious house in the wild and remote landscape of central Canada, he ...

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,...

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...

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...

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 ...

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 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...

Still Life with Bread Crumbs | Still Life with Bread Crumbs begins with an imagined gunshot and ends with a new tin roof. Between the two is a wry and knowing portrait of Rebecca Winter, a photographe...

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...

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 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 ...

The Finest Type of English Womanhood | It is 1946, and seventeen-year-old Laura Telling is stagnating in her dilapidated Sussex family home, while her eccentric parents slip further into isolation. 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...

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...

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...

Straight White Male | Kennedy Marr is a novelist from the old school. Irish, acerbic, and a borderline alcoholic and sex-addict, his mantra is drink hard, write hard and try to screw every woman you m...

Lonely Boy | Foreword by Chrissie Hynde Without the Sex Pistols there would be no punk rock, and without Steve Jones there would be no Sex Pistols. It was Steve who formed Kutie Jones and his Sex Pist...

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 Balkan Trilogy | The Balkan Trilogy is the story of a marriage and of a war, a vast, teeming, and complex masterpiece in which Olivia Manning brings the uncertainty and adventure of civilian exist...

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...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

In the Light of Morning | May 1944: High above the mountains of occupied Slovenia an aeroplane drops three British parachutists – brash MP Major Jack Farwell, radio operator Sid Dixon, and young acade...

Swan Song | To the outside world, they were the icons of high society - the most glamorous and influential women of their age. To Truman Capote they were his Swans: the ideal heroines, as vulnerable a...

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 ...

Strictly English. The Correct Way To Write... And Why It Matters | Издание полностью на английском языке. The author's incisive and amusingly despairing emails to colleagues at the "The Daily Telegrap...