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When George Alagiah was dropped off at a Hampshire boarding school as a child back in 1967 he was confronted with an extreme version of the private...

Review This is a small, wise book of small prose miracles . . . It is a larger miracle in this way: it makes us feel we see Johnson and his fr...

Review A brilliant, painful account of a doomed love affair. While the storm clouds are gathering, the teller of the story belives the picnic ...

Review Holden is the best possible guide to the new worlds of poker. He has seen it before, and lived it ― Telegraph It's Holden's effortless pro...

Review Riotous . . . [those seeking wisdom and insight] will be gripped, astonished and profoundly moved ― Sunday Times A thoughtful, funny and h...

Andrew, an advertising executive in his mid-30s, returns to his hometown in upstate New York for his mother's funeral. He does not intend to stay i...

The dramatic and shocking events of the Peasants' Revolt of 1381 are to be the backdrop to Juliet Barker's latest book: a snapshot of what everyday...

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Product Description The beautiful, spoiled and bored Olivia, married to a civil servant, outrages society in the tiny, suffocating town of Sa...

Product Description Ibrahim Al-Brehm is a respectable husband a police inspector on Jeddah's murder squad. But for the past year, he has been hav...

Review Everything about [McCall Smith] is appealing. He's just full of delight - it just bubbles out of him ― Sunday Herald The hypnotic ease of ...

Review A very special little book. I absolutely loved it, and I find myself still thinking about Sprout. She embodies all the best characteristics...

Review Exactly what you want from a history of the boffins and technological pioneers of the First World War. There are bluff military adventu...

Review You-Jeong Jeong is a certified international phenomenon . . . That Jeong has actually been at the top of her game for a long time is ab...

The riveting story of the hundred-year intelligence war between Russia and the West with lessons for our new superpower conflict with China 'A mas...

Review A genuinely fresh perspective . . . shocking in its rawness . . . achieves the almost impossible feat of capturing something of the excess ...

Review Magnificent ― The GUARDIAN A superb achievment, incisive, illuminating and readable ― Sunday TIMES A superbly rich and erudite portrait o...

Review A heart-warming and sweet story of small-town life and self-discovery ― Vanessa Greene, author of The Vintage Teacup ClubAn exquisitely...

Review Bainbridge's account of the horribly familiar story is both fresh and sure-footed. The power of her imagination, her clarity of express...

This wonderful novel showing Beryl Bainbridge at her darkly comic best - out for the first time as an Abacus paperback.

Review This novel is a perfect killing machine of flesh, bone, blood and cartilage. The story of the Crocodile will make you tremble to your v...

'It was a night that would be long remembered. The Florence police would come to call it a night of horror, the start of a new nightmare ...' Afte...

Review So beautifully written and so sharp in its details and atmosphere that it's no wonder Lehane's books attract filmmakers with such ease ...

Product Description Norman is the clever one of a close-knit Jewish family in the East End of London. Infant prodigy; brilliant barrister; the ap...

Product Description Sunday Times Crime Book Club PickMail on Sunday Thriller of the Week 'A coldly brilliant exposé of the depths of human nature...

Product Description 'A twisting spiral of lies and corruption' Val McDermid From the hilltop he could see London, stretched towards the hills of ...

Review THE ICE STORM is one of the wittiest books about family life ever written ― THE GUARDIAN A huge '70s nostalgia trip, a litany of kitsch, a...

Product Description A grandfather who learns to let go.A grandson who learns to love.Eighty-five years old, a rebel, a retired boxer, Napoleon Su...

Review Christopher Matthew is a comic genius ― Sandi Toksvig Product Description Daunted by the prospect of old age? Fearful of beco...

Product Description Winner of an English PEN 'PEN Translates!' award. Barcelona, 1952: General Franco's fascist government is at the height of it...

Review The book I most often give as a gift to cheer people up -- Hilary Mantel ― Guardian A delicious book. Funny and happy, it's like the breat...

Review James Le Fanu meticulously dissects the science, spin and unethical practices -- Gavin Francis ― The Times This is a profoundly disturbing...

Review Wealth and Power offers everything readers might expect from its two eminent authors. It is both sweeping and specific, authoritative and l...

By the author of international bestseller The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry. Aviva Grossman, an ambitious intern in Florida working for a politician, ...