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'Taylor Downing is a wonderful historian and a wonderful history communicator' Dan Snow, History Hit 'Vividly brings to life a terrible year' Max ...

Savagely funny, compelling and a cult classic, A Private Place has struck a chord with generations. It's now available with a new afterword by the ...

Product Description From the hugely popular 44 Scotland Street series comes the latest adventures of Bertie and his family and friends.The winds ...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE FOR HISTORICAL FICTION 'Utterly absorbing, cleverly constructed and beautifully written' The Times 'Moving...

The Ashes may be the longest and fiercest sporting soap opera the world has known. The anticipation is always intense, expectations are high and, f...

The First World War was too big to be grasped by its participants. In the retelling of their war in the competing memories of leaders and commander...

Product Description Even down to its well-set Georgian townhouses, Edinburgh is a hymn to measure and harmony. But on Scotland Street, domestic ac...

A lavish gift edition of David Sedaris's best stories, spanning his spectacular bestselling career. Hand-picked by David himself, these are stories...

Now that she is finally and happily married to her long-term suitor Mr J.L.B. Matekoni, Mma Ramotswe of the No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency of Botswa...

Edwidge Danticat's groundbreaking debut, with new introduction from Booker Prize winner Bernardine Evaristo At the age of twelve, Sophie Caco is s...

Product Description British Summer Time Begins is about summer holidays of the mid-twentieth century and how they were spent, as recounted to Yse...

'All his novels are terrific' Sarah Waters Patrick Hamilton's novels were the inspiration for Matthew Bourne's new dance theatre production, The M...

The astonishing, true account of one man's quest to immerse himself in nature and live with wild deer for seven years. 'Haunting, remarkable and u...

Amazon Review After taking on the ill-fated Scott expedition to the South Pole in her previous book, The Birthday Boys, the novelist tackles a...

When sweet, healthy hearty Holly Fox dies suddenly in childbirth, the Surrey village whose pearl she was reverberates with shock. She leaves behind...

'These Benson and de Vere stories are unputdownable... A five star bravura performance. This writer gets better and better' A.N. Wilson The Hither...

Review In Forgotten Country, Catherine Chung tells an inexpressibly beautiful story about a Korean family with a complex history... The story ...

Review A fascinating study of friendship -- Rachel Cooke ― Observer Friends offers poignant observations about how we have evolved to rely on one...

Review A new age J.D Sallinger on smart drugs. ― TIME OUT **Dizzying sparkle and originality. ― THE TIMES, **Quirky, witty, with an affection ...

Book Description In Gurkha we hear, for the first time in two hundred years of service to the British crown, the authentic voice of a Gurkha soldi...

'It's hard to think of a better living practitioner of hilarious honesty than David Sedaris' The Times In Happy-Go-Lucky, David Sedaris once again...

A short, exquisite novel about love, loss and making sense of the world - as heartbreakingly moving as it is outrageous and funny 'A universal l...

In the 144 years since Karl Marx's Das Kapital was published, the doctrine that bears his name has been embraced by millions in the name of equalit...

In 1995, high-flying British journalist Toby Young left London for New York to become a contributing editor at Vanity Fair. Other Brits had taken M...

A new edition of Primo Levi's classic memoir of the Holocaust, with an introduction by David Baddiel, author of Jews Don't Count 'With the moral s...

THE SIXTH BOOK IN THE BELOVED NO. 1 LADIES' DETECTIVE AGENCY SERIES The one where Mma Makutsi finds a dancing partner . . . Although Mma Ramotsw...

Product Description 'Intriguing and very scary' Ken Follett Abducted at thirteen.Returned at twenty-eight.Is it time to go back into the labyrint...

Review Bloch's candour made it impossible to publish the book until now. It has been well worth the wait. For those too young to remember Thorpe, ...

Product Description 'A masterpiece of research, The Last Kings of Shanghai is a vivid and fascinating story of wealth, family intrigue, and p...

The awkward and lovable hero of Andrew Sean Greer's bestselling and prize-winning novel Less returns in this unforgettable road trip across America...

Review Unexpectedly moving...a good introduction for the general reader suddenly turns to questions of love, grief, deceit and identity -- Sholto ...

Acclaimed bestselling novelist Kunihiko Hidaka is found brutally murdered in his home on the night before he's planning to leave Japan and relocate...

Product Description Recently distracted by the arrival of her and Jamie's second son, Magnus, Isabel Dalhousie - philanthropic editor of the Revi...

The latest installation in the beloved Isabel Dalhousie series 'Cosy and effortlessly charming' Herald 'Delightful' Sunday Telegraph 'Humorous a...

Migrants cuts through the toxic debates to tell the rich and collective stories of humankind's urge to move. 'Fascinating... Miller's perspective ...

Step into the vibrant world of Botswana with Precious Ramotswe, the beloved detective whose charm and wit will captivate you. In this third volume ...

THE REESE WITHERSPOON OCTOBER BOOK CLUB PICK 'Governments are right to fear words. They can change hearts and topple tyrannies....It's impossible ...

Jane Gardam's funny and wise masterpiece, reissued with a new introduction by Nina Stibbe 'Old Filth has stayed with me for years' SATHNAM SANGHE...

Product Description I remain in the curious position of disliking, distrusting, disapproving and fearing nationalism wherever it exists . . . ...