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Two backcountry skiers find the body of a young woman embedded in the ice of a remote mountain creek. All through the night police work with arc lights and chainsaws...

A Book of the Decade, 2010-2020 (Independent)'Outrageous, hilarious and profound.' Simon Schama, Financial Times'The longer you stare at Beatty's pages, the smarter you'll get.' Guardian'The most badass first 100 pages...

'A gorgeous novel' Mail on SundayFrom the bestselling author of The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel comes a thrilling story of power, lust and deception...Seventeenth-century Amsterdam - a city in the...

WINNER OF THE 2014 FOLIO PRIZE AND SHORTLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD 2013George Saunders's most wryly hilarious and disturbing collection yet, Tenth of December illuminates human experience and explores...

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERA BESTSELLING RICHARD AND JUDY BOOKCLUB PICKSHORTLISTED FOR THE DESMOND ELLIOTT PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR THE AUTHOR'S CLUB BEST FIRST NOVEL AWARD'A lush, romantic novel' Daily Mail1992: Leo Deakin...

In 1954 a fisherman is found dead in the nets of his boat, and a local Japanese-American man is charged with his murder. In the course of his trial, it...

In 1865, as Darwin's new theory of evolution begins to sweep aside old certainties, a young Jesuit priest and plant-hunter sets out into an unknown world. He is driven by...

1920. The Great War has been over for two years, and it has left a very different world from the Edwardian certainties of 1914. Following the death of his wife...

'Georgette Heyer meets William Boyd ... Intrigue, murder, love and betrayal - I couldn't put it down' Diney Costeloe. Napoleon has won the Battle of Waterloo and England is under...

Acid Row. The name the beleaguered inhabitants give to their 'sink' estate.A no-man's land of single mothers and fatherless children - where angry, alienated youth controls the streets. Into this...

The second in the detective series featuring DI Geraldine Steel When a man dies in a gas explosion, the police suspect arson. But the case takes on a new and...

'He could be out there right now. Passing you on the street. You'd never know ...' DI Charlotte Savage is back, chasing a killer who was last at large ten...

In awe of his wife, hounded by his agent and ignored by his editor, mild mannered crime novelist David Slavitt finds his life is spiralling out of control. He needs...

Information specialist Vanessa 'Michael' Munroe has a global reputation for getting things done, often dangerous and violent things. But her reputation has brought her dangerous enemies.On a busy Dallas street,...

A gripping new crime novel from the global bestseller Cathy Glass writing as Lisa Stone 'The Darkness Within hooked me from the start. Once you start you won't be able...

Winner of the Paddy Power Political Novel of the Year1998: foreign minister Mark Lucas is in a dilemma. A disk containing the names of British informants to the Stasi has...

Allison Weiss is a typical working mother, trying to balance a business, ageing parents, a demanding daughter and a marriage. But when the website she develops becomes a huge success,...

The Victorian gossipmongers called them The Petticoat Men. But to young Mattie Stacey they are Freddie and Ernest, her gentlemen lodgers. She doesn't care that they dress up in sparkling...

'Masterful' SUNDAY TIMES_________________Ancient Rome. 70 B.C. The height of the Republic.A city rippling with power - and with no shortage of men who'd do anything to wield it... When Tiro,...

SPECIAL 10TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION with exclusive extra behind-the-scenes material from the authorIt is 1939. In Nazi Germany, the country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier - and...

Discover the love story that captured 21 million hearts . . . from the author of The Last Letter from Your Lover, now a major motion pictureThe No. 1 bestselling...

The myths don't have a clue what to do with women. They have nothing to say about us whatsoever. We need to build our own f**king mythology. When Ivy League...

MORE THAN 100 MILLION COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDE**Pre-order FREED, 'Fifty Shades Freed' as told by Christian**When literature student Anastasia Steele interviews successful entrepreneur Christian Grey, she finds him very attractive and...

A hugely engaging adventure set in a Victorian-style world - a fantastical version of Dickens - that will appeal to fans of Susanna Clarke and Philip Pullman. Two orphans are...

'I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day of January 1960; and then again, as a teenage boy, in an emergency room near...

Shortlisted for the RNA Historical Romantic Novel AwardThe long-awaited prequel to Elizabeth Chadwick's beloved first novel The Wild Hunt'Picking up an Elizabeth Chadwick novel you know you are in for...

The new novel from the author of the much-loved Girl with a Pearl Earring and Falling Angels. The Lady and the Unicorn tapestries are a set of six medieval tapestries....

The wonderful new novel from the much loved author of Girl with a Pearl Earring and Falling Angels. The Lady and the Unicorn tapestries are a set of six medieval...

A remarkable story of a Scottish woman in Occupied France pursuing a perilous mission of her own FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER BIRDSONGIn 1942, Charlotte Gray, a young...

"The Damned United" is directed by Tom Hooper (John Adams, Longford, Elizabeth I), and adapted for the screen by Peter Morgan ("The Queen", "The Last King of Scotland", "Frost/Nixon") from...

For the second time in her marriage, Mariah White catches her husband with another woman, and Faith, their seven-year-old daughter, witnesses every painful minute. In the aftermath of a sudden...

By the bestselling author of Chocolat, international multi-million copy seller Joanne Harris, comes a passionate story of love, nuns and witches, set in 17th-century France. Perfect for fans of Victoria...

OVER FIVE MILLION COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDE 'A phenomenon' Jessie Burton 'Dazzling' Daily Mail 'Truly magical' Guardian Those eyes are fixed on someone. But who? What is she thinking as she...

In 1964, a young Australian girl, Linda Carr, is trying to track down the wreckage of the Liberator bomber in which her father died when it crashed in northern Italy...

On a misty London afternoon in 1886, piano tuner Edgar Drake receives a strange request from the War Office: he must leave his wife, and his quiet life in London,...

What is the mystery of Thomas Chatterton? A young poet and elderly female novelist try to decode the clues found within an eighteenth-century manuscript, only to discover that their investigation...

On the twentieth anniversary of the death of Rebecca, the hauntingly beautiful first wife of Maxim de Winter, family friend Colonel Julyan receives an anonymous parcel. It contains a black...

From the acclaimed author of The English Patient comes a stunningly beautiful novel about a boy's life-changing journey from Ceylon to England in the 1950s.What had there been before such...

Don't miss the captivating new book from Sunday Times bestselling author Susan Lewis! A terrible secret When Jessica's husband comes home one night and says he has something to tell...

From the Suffolk countryside to the old Basque towns of Spain, Emma Darwin's unforgettable debut tells the astoundingly moving story of Stephen, a veteran of Waterloo, whose suffering and secret...