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Marriage Material | To Arjan Banga, who has returned to the Black Country after the unexpected death of his father, his family's corner shop represents everything he has tried to leave behind - a leth...

Rich People Problems | Nicholas Young's grandmother Su Yi is on her deathbed. While he rushes to be by her bedside, he's not the only one. The entire Shang-Young clan has convened from all corners of ...

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 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...

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 Daylight Gate | The Forest of Pendle used to be a hunting ground, but some say that the hill is the hunter - alive in its black-and-green coat cropped like an animal pelt. Good Friday, 1612. Two n...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

Holiday | 2019 marked the centenary of Stanley Middleton's birth. Holiday, winner of the 1974 Booker Prize, remains the most celebrated and popular novel from 'the Chekhov of suburbia'. Edwin Fisher h...

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...

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...

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...

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 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...

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...

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...

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...

David Bowie. A Life | Drawn from a series of conversations between David Bowie and Dylan Jones across three decades, together with over 180 interviews with friends, rivals, lovers, and collaborators -...

A Line Made By Walking | ‘When I finished Sara Baume’s new novel I immediately felt sad that I could not send it in the post to the late John Berger. He, too, would have loved it and found great joy i...

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...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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 ...

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...

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 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...

Castle. A History of the Buildings that Shaped Medieval Britain | Beginning with their introduction in the eleventh century, and ending with their widespread abandonment in the seventeenth, Marc Morri...

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...

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 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...

The Spoilt City | Bucharest, 1940. The city is on the brink of invasion and Guy and Harriet Pringle find their position growing ever more dangerous. Harriet longs for safety, while Guy's idealism frus...

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...

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 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 ...

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...

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 ...

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 ...

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...

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 ...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

Immortal | The two time winner of the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award on George Best, considered the greatest footballer of our time. No other imposed himself so completely on to the romant...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

Perfidia | Los Angeles, December 6, 1941. Last hopes for peace are shattered when Japanese squadrons bomb Pearl Harbor. War fever and race hate grip the city and the internment of Japanese-Americans b...

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...

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 ...