A fine debut - fast-paced and bleak, with a vivid setting and gut-wrenching twists.' MICK HERRON********The funny thing with suffering is just when you think you've suffered enough, you realize it's o
Frank has a gift for finding his customers the music they need to hear. When he meets Ilsa Brauchmann, a mysterious and beautiful woman with no ear for music, and engaged to another man, he falls in l
From the Nasa astronaut who spent a record-breaking year aboard the International Space Station - what it's like out there and what it's like now, back here. Enter Scott Kelly's fascinating world and
From the author of the world-wide bestseller, The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, a new novel about learning how to listen and how to feel; and about second chances and choosing to be brave despite
A fine debut - fast-paced and bleak, with a vivid setting and gut-wrenching twists.' MICK HERRON********The funny thing with suffering is just when you think you've suffered enough, you realize it's o
It's invisible. It's ever-present. Without it, you would die in minutes.And it has an epic story to tell.In Caesar's Last Breath, New York Times bestselling author Sam Kean takes us on a journey throu
OBSERVER THRILLER OF THE MONTH ‘A page-turning, adrenaline-soaked read . . . an eloquent and meditative insight into motherhood and what it means, its many small trials and wonders.’ Alison Flood, Obs
"Compelling and operatic...Reads like a modern thriller". (Simon Sebag Montefiore, author of The Romanovs). "A dark and irresistible novel". (Lucy Worsley). 1789: Henrietta Lightfoot, a young Englishw
2045-2059. After the cataclysmic upheavals of Step Day and the Yellowstone eruption humanity is spreading further into the Long Earth, and society, on a battered Datum Earth and beyond, continues to e
Shyama is in love like she has never been before. Pale and English, Toby, a farmer's son, treats her with the love and respect her former Asian husband never did. Shyama loves so keenly that she badly
Ben Chambers wakes up to find something rusty and lost underneath the willow tree in his garden. Refusing to throw it on the skip as his wife Amy advises, he takes it home.
Taggie and Jemima are summer holidaying on their dad's farm, when they see a white squirrel wearing glasses . . . and soon after their father is captured and trapped in a faerie world that's fallen to
November 1920A soldier with no name begins his journey home from France Five days laterHe will be greeted by silent crowds and bright red poppies:The Unknown WarriorMeanwhile three women devastated by
“You told me you didn’t have a dad,” he said.“Maybe I said that just because I don’t want the one I got.”Easter Quillby’s mom died two months ago, so she and her little sister Ruby are in a foster hom
"Just brilliant." (DONAL RYAN). "An exceptionally good book." (C J SANSOM). 1816 was the year without a summer. A rare climatic event has brought frost to July, and a lingering fog casts a pall over a
As we grow older - most of all, in what we remember and what we dream - we live in the past. Sometimes, we live more vividly in the past than in the present. As an older man, Juan Diego will take a tr
As the glorious summer of 1914 drew to a close, it was difficult for the author to realize that the world he had planned and prepared for at Clifton College was a world in which he now had to prepare
Odran Yates enters Clonliffe Seminary in 1972 after his mother informs him that he has a vocation to the priesthood. He goes in full of ambition and hope, dedicated to his studies and keen to make fri
