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The Black Count | So how did such this extraordinary man get erased by history? Why are there no statues of 'Monsieur Humanity' as his troops called him? The Black Count uncovers what happened and the...

Spider Woman. A Life | Lady Hale is an inspirational figure admired for her historic achievements and for the causes she has championed. Spider Woman is her story. As 'a little girl from a little scho...

The Hungover Games | People always said I'd find love where I least expected it. I always said they were idiots. I had no idea how to commit to another human being. I could barely commit to reading a ...

The Time Traveller's Guide to Restoration Britain. A Handbook for Visitors to the Years 1660-1700 | The past is a foreign country: this is your guidebook. If you could travel back in time, the period ...

Bluebeard's Egg | A man finds himself surrounded by women who are becoming paler, more silent and literally smaller; a woman's intimate life is strangely dominated by the fear of nuclear warfare; a me...

When the Facts Change. Essays 1995 - 2010 | A great thinker's final testament: a characteristically wise and forthright collection of essays from the author of Postwar and Thinking the Twentieth Centu...

A Horse Walks into a Bar | The setting is a comedy club in a small Israeli town. An audience that has come expecting an evening of amusement instead sees a comedian falling apart on stage; an act of d...

The Amur River. Between Russia and China | In his eightieth year, Colin Thubron takes a dramatic and often treacherous journey from the Amur's secret source to its giant mouth, covering almost 3,000 m...

The Amateur Marriage | Michael and Pauline seemed like the perfect couple - young, good-looking, made for each other. The moment she walked into his mother's grocery store in Baltimore, he was smitten...

The New World | The end of the world Or the beginning… On to the shores of Texas a raging sea coughs up two castaways: Jim and Natty, shipwrecked on their way home from Treasure Island. The Nightingal...

Italian Neighbours. An Englishman in Verona | 'I recommend his book to all those who are fed up with accounts of roughing it agreeably in Tuscany and similar junk that scarcely scratches the surface o...

The Secret Network of Nature | An exploration of the invisible connections sustaining the entire natural world from the bestselling author of The Hidden Life of Trees Did you know that trees can influ...

The Old Devils | Malcolm, Peter and Charlie and their Soave-sodden wives have one main ambition left in life: to drink Wales dry. But their routine is both shaken and stirred when they are joined by p...

The Schooldays of Jesus | David is the small boy who is always asking questions. Simon and Ines take care of him in their new town, Estrella. He is learning the language, he has begun to make friends ...

Far Eastern Tales | Mesmerising short stories by this neglected 20th century master. Far Eastern Tales is a collection of short stories born of Maugham's experiences in Malaya, Singapore and other out...

Strange Shores | A missing woman. A missing boy. Detective Erlendur returns - for the last time A young woman walks into the frozen fjords of Iceland, never to be seen again. But Matthildur leaves in ...

Dream of Ding Village | A searing novel that traces the destruction of a community in communist China. Told through the eyes of Xiao Qiang, a young boy, this deeply moving novel shares the tragic stor...

A Treacherous Paradise | A Treacherous Paradise sees Henning Mankell turn his talents for writing gripping thrillers to a world where power and powerlessness meet and passion is a dangerous commodity....

You Are Awful (But I Like You). Travels Through Unloved Britain | A nostalgic and very funny celebration of the slightly slapdash place we call home: Great Britain Would you cheer if they sent you to ...

Never Saw Me Coming | Meet Chloe. First-year student. Ordinary girl next door. Psychopath. Chloe Sevre can be whoever you want her to be. A cool girl, a best friend, someone to tell secrets to over mi...

One by One | Snow is falling in the exclusive alpine ski resort of Saint Antoine, as the shareholders and directors of Snoop, the hottest new music app, gather for a make or break corporate retreat to...

Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals | 'Iris Murdoch has written a book which concerns all of us as human beings. There are pages here that one wants to embrace her for, pages that say things of fundament...

Dancing Girls and Other Stories | From the international bestselling author of The Handmaid's Tale, Dancing Girls and Other Stories showcases Margaret Atwood's masterly skill for storytelling. Student...

Not That Sort of Girl | When, on the night of their wedding, Ned asks his new wife Rose to promise that she will never leave him, Rose is quick to give her aristocratic husband her word: keeping it, h...

The Time Traveller's Guide to Elizabethan England | Discover the era of William Shakespeare and Elizabeth I through the sharp, informative and hilarious eyes of Ian Mortimer. We think of Queen Elizabe...

The Last Resort | Jenny has devoted her life to her husband, the famous naturalist Wilkie Walker. But this year, as winter comes on, Wilkie seems distant and depressed. In desperation Jenny persuades ...

To The End of the Land | Ora, a middle-aged Israeli mother, is about to celebrate her son Ofer's release from army service when he returns to the front for a major offensive. Instead of waiting at hom...

The Schooldays of Jesus | David is the small boy who is always asking questions. Simon and Ines take care of him in their new town, Estrella. He is learning the language, he has begun to make friends ...

The Railway | Set mainly in Uzbekistan between 1900 and 1980, The Railway introduces to us the inhabitants of the small town of Gilas on the ancient Silk Route. Among those whose stories we hear are M...

Eat A Peach. A Chef's Memoir | The celebrated chef behind Momofuku and star of Netflix's Ugly Delicious gets uncomfortably real in his New York Times bestselling memoir. In 2004, Momofuku Noodle Bar o...

On Green Dolphin Street | Reissued in new series style to match Faulks's most recent novel Where My Heart Used to Beat, which was a major Sunday Times bestseller in 2016 A vividly evocative novel set ...

The Way Back | The sequel to All Quiet on the Western Front, one of the most powerful novels of the First World War and a twentieth-century classic. After four gruelling years the survivors of the Gre...

The Method | Mia Holl lives in a state governed by The Method, where good health is the highest duty of the citizen. Everyone must submit medical data and sleep records to the authorities on a monthly...

Cheri | A vivid, believable love story between an older woman and a younger man. Lea de Lonval is a magnificent and aging courtesan facing the end of her career. She has devoted the last six years to ...

The Beauty and the Terror. An Alternative History of the Italian Renaissance | The Italian Renaissance shaped Western culture - but it was far stranger and darker than many of us realise. We know the ...

Grimus | The extraordinary literary debut of Salman Rushdie Flapping Eagle is a young Axona Indian gifted with immortal life after drinking an elixir from his wayward sister. But after 777 years of sa...

The Sandpit | A journalist becomes embroiled in a world of secrets and paranoia when a nuclear scientist goes missing. When John Dyer returns to Oxford from Brazil with his young son, Leandro, he expe...

Recovery | The hawk was everything I wanted to be: solitary, self-possessed, free from grief, and numb to the hurts of human life. How do we carry on when someone close to us dies? Is it simply a case...

Two for the Road | The next round in the beloved Two Pints series from the ever-brilliant, always hilarious imagination of bestselling author of The Commitments and Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha Two men meet ...

Bodies | A darkly powerful and blackly funny expose of the horrors of life as a junior doctor, from the BAFTA award-winning creator of Bodyguard and Line of Duty Inside every hospital exists a world n...

A Dry White Season | A man investigating the death of a friend discovers the dangers of curiosity... Ben du Toit is an ordinary, decent, harmless man, unremarkable in every way - until his sense of ju...

Captain Corelli's Mandolin | It is 1941 and Captain Antonio Corelli, a young Italian officer, is posted to the Greek island of Cephallonia as part of the occupying forces. At first he is ostracised by...

The Master Bedroom | Kate Flynn has always been a clever girl, brought up to believe in herself as something special. Now Kate is forty-three and has given up her university career in London to come h...

Time's Arrow | Tod. T. Friendly is living his life backwards. Doctor Friendly has just died, but after weeks of improving in the hospital, he is sent home to his affable, melting-pot, primary-colour e...

The Pier Falls | A seaside pier collapses. An expedition to Mars goes terribly wrong. A thirty-stone man is confined to his living room. One woman is abandoned on a tiny island in the middle of the oc...

The Picture of Dorian Gray | Dorian is a good-natured young man until he discovers the power of his own exceptional beauty. As he gradually sinks deep into a frivolous, glamorous world of selfish luxu...

A Rising Man | India, 1919. Desperate for a fresh start, Captain Sam Wyndham arrives to take up an important post in Calcutta's police force. He is soon called to the scene of a horrifying murder. The...

Collected Stories | Richard Yates was acclaimed as one of the most powerful, compassionate and accomplished writers of America's post-war generation. Whether addressing the smothered desire of suburba...

Searching For Caleb | Discover Pulitzer Prize-winning, Sunday Times bestselling author Anne Tyler's deeply personal American historical epic. Duncan Peck is a restless man, always on the move. His wif...

Sweet Tooth | The year is 1972, the Cold War is far from over and Serena Frome, in her final year at Cambridge, is being groomed for MI5. Sent on Operation Sweet Tooth – a highly secret undercover mis...

Round the Bend | When Tom Cutter hires Constantine Shaklin as an engineer in his air freight business, he little realises the extraordinary gifts of his new recruit. Shaklin possesses a religious powe...

The Gap of Time | A baby girl is abandoned, banished from London to the storm-ravaged American city of New Bohemia. Her father has been driven mad by jealousy, her mother to exile by grief. Seventeen ...

The Book and the Brotherhood | A highlight amongst Murdoch's novels, shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. It's the midsummer ball at Oxford, and a group of men and women - friends since university da...

The Mystery of a Butcher's Shop | Rediscover Gladys Mitchell – one of the 'Big Three' female crime fiction writers alongside Agatha Christie and Dorothy L. Sayers. When Rupert Sethleigh's body is foun...

Accidents in the Home. The debut novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author | From the author of The Past, Tessa Hadley's first novel now rejacketed for a whole new audience An improbable coincide...

A Man In Love | This is a book about leaving your wife and everything you know. It is about fresh starts, about love, about friendship. It is also about the earth-shattering experience of becoming a f...

Out Of The Shelter | The restrictions of a wartime childhood in in London and subsequent post-war shortages have done little to enrich Timothy's early youth. But everything changes when his glamorous ...

The Porpoise | A motherless girl grows up in isolated luxury, hidden from the world by her wealthy father. She believes their life together is normal - but as time passes, she has a growing sense that...

Warlight | An elegiac novel set in post-WW2 London about memory, family secrets and lies, from the internationally acclaimed author of The English Patient It is 1945, and London is still reeling from ...

The Gracekeepers | A flooded world. A floating circus. Two women in search of a home. North lives on a circus boat with her beloved bear, keeping a secret that could capsize her life. Callanish lives ...

The Fatal Shore. A History of the Transportation of Convicts to Australia, 1787-1868 | An award-winning epic on the birth of Australia In 1787, the twenty-eighth year of the reign of King George III, ...

Fates Worse Than Death | This is the second volume of Vonnegut’s autobiographical writings – a collage of his own life story, snipped up and stuck down alongside his views on everything from suicidal ...

Cakes and Ale | Stunningly rejacked as part of a major reinvention of this neglected 20th century master WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY NICHOLAS SHAKESPEARE Cakes and Ale is both a wickedly satirical novel a...

The Atom Station | When the Americans make an offer to buy land in Iceland to build a NATO airbase after the Second World War, a storm of protest is provoked throughout the country. Narrated by a coun...