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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 ...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...