This is the extraordinary love story of Clare and Henry who met when Clare was six and Henry was thirty-six, and were married when Clare was twenty-two and Henry thirty. Impossible but true, because Henry…
This is the extraordinary love story of Clare and Henry who met when Clare was six and Henry was thirty-six, and were married when Clare was twenty-two and Henry thirty. Impossible but true, because Henry…
The Complete Short Stories of Roald Dahl in the second of two unsettling and sinister volumes. ‘Dahl finds the child in the adult and the adult in the child and, with a little smile, he…
A RICHARD AND JUDY BOOK CLUB 2017 PICK A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The best books make you see differently. This is one of them. The eye-opening new novel from Jodi…
Unpleasant things are going on in an exclusive school for girls – things like murder… Late one night, two teachers investigate a mysterious flashing light in the sports pavilion, while the rest of the school…
Nancy Mitford’s The Pursuit of Love is one of the funniest, sharpest novels about love and growing up ever written. ‘Obsessed with sex!’ said Jassy, ‘there’s nobody so obsessed as you, Linda. Why if I…
Asher Lev is a gifted loner, the artist who painted the sensational Brooklyn Crucifixion. Into it he poured all the anguish and torment a Jew can feel when torn between the faith of his fathers…
Fiona Maye, a leading High Court judge, renowned for her fierce intelligence and sensitivity is called on to try an urgent case. For religious reasons, a seventeen-year-old boy is refusing the medical treatment that could…
______________________ NOW CELEBRATING ITS 75th ANNIVERSARY Betty Smith’s debut novel is universally regarded as a modern classic. The sprawling tale of an immigrant family in early 20th-century Brooklyn, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn is one…
‘One of the most important American novels of the twentieth century’ The Times ‘It is sometimes advantageous to be unseen, although it is most often rather wearing on the nerves’ Ralph Ellison’s blistering and impassioned…
Between 2005 and 2009, in a remote Mennonite colony, over one hundred girls and women were raped by what many thought were ghosts or demons. Their accounts were dismissed as ‘wild female imagination’. Women Talking…
The ultimate Rome story Fresh from triumph in Britain and Gaul, Caesar is marching on Rome with his legions of hardened veterans. To unseat Pompey, now dictator of the empire, he must make the terrible…
‘Wonderfully poetic … extraordinary freshness … a Virginia Woolf quality’ Margaret Drabble Territory of Light is the radiant story of a young woman, living alone in Tokyo with her two-year-old daughter. Its twelve chapters follow…
Lose yourself in the sun-drenched hills of the Amalfi coast with bestselling author of Songs of Love and War, Santa Montefiore… Gianluca has to admit his life is empty so, in search of serenity and…
Agatha Christie’s ingenious murder mystery, reissued with a striking new cover designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie fans and book lovers. Beautiful Caroline Crale was convicted of poisoning her husband, yet…
‘DEFTLY TACKLING THE SUBJECT OF RELIGIOUS INTOLERANCE, THIS BEWITCHING NOVEL STIRS THE SENSES’ Good Housekeeping It isn’t often you receive a letter from the dead. When Vianne Rocher receives a letter from beyond the grave,…
This powerful collection of stories, set in the mid-West among the lonely men and women who drink, fish and play cards to ease the passing of time, was the first by Raymond Carver to be…
Three generations. One heartbreaking secret. And pasts about to be uncovered . . . Jess Penhaligon is on her way to Devon to receive an award for her botanical painting. Hosting her will be Kate,…
‘ONE DAY is destined to be a modern classic’ – Daily Mirror Twenty years, two people, ONE DAY. The multi-million copy bestseller that captures the experiences of a generation. ‘I can imagine you at forty,’…
‘Though their house was new, the wall had been there a long time.’ In these two stories, which have never before been translated into English, Tsushima shows how memories, dreams and fleeting images describe the…
The death and burial of Addie Bundren is told by members of her family, as they cart the coffin to Jefferson, Mississippi, to bury her among her people. And as the intense desires, fears and…
