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'A Baedeker of the past, absorbing and revealing in equal measure' Peter Ackroyd'Brings the age's tortuous splendours and profound murkiness vividly to life' ObserverWhen Dr Johnson published his great Dictionary in 1755, London was the biggest city in Europe. The...
In this compelling biography, Christopher Sandford explores the full, inside story of Kurt Cobain. From the disruptive childhood which had such a crucial impact on Cobain's personality to the ambitious career musician who, as a friend said, "lunged for success", and...
*The Missing File has now been adapted for television in a new series called The Calling out in November 2022*A sixteen-year-old boy is missing in a Tel Aviv suburb. His mother is worried. Inspector Avraham Avraham is not. It is unheard of for children to vanish in this...
Jimmy Connors took the tennis world by storm like no player in the history of the game. A shaggy-haired working-class kid from the wrong side of the tracks, he was prepared to battle for every point, to shout and scream until he was heard, and he didn't care whom he...
Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Tokas were the talk of pre-war Paris. Photographed by Cecil Beaton and Man Ray, painted by Picasso and written about by Hemingway, they were at the heart of Parisian cultural and literary life. Alice, convinced thatGertrude was a genius,...
In the seven decades since the darkest moments of the Second World War it seems every tenebrous corner of the conflict has been laid bare, prodded and examined from every perspective of military and social history. But there is a story that has hitherto been largely...
Return to the lands of Aurian.Return to a time when even the land was a different shape. When the fabled Artefacts of Power were shaped. And when a race was fighting for freedom ...Corisand, shaman of the Xandim, is locked in a desperate fight to free her tribe from...
Some people find it hard to trust Robin Allbeury, a wealthy lawyer and an expert on marital secrets, who runs an unorthodox sideline helping troubled wives escape from their abusive marriages.For some women, help comes too late. Women like Lynne Bolsover, wife and...
There's something chillingly familiar about what's happening to Nick Miller. He was so sure he'd left the past - and Holly Bourne - behind. Holly, pure delight to everyone else, but Nick's girlfriend-from-hell. Except that all that was over years ago. Holly's happily...
The glorious novel from the bestselling Lesley Lokko; an epic tale of three women whose lives interweave over decades.In a beachfront mansion in Martha's Vineyard, Annick and Rebecca relax, safe in the knowledge that their young children are in the care of life-long...
MAX WALKER - BLUE-EYED BOY OR GIRL NEXT DOOR?'Terrific. A poignant, brave and important book. - S J WATSON'A gripping read. Tarttelin is a natural storyteller' MATT HAIG'Tarttelin broaches the topic of intersexuality bravely, describes the crimes committed against Max...
Florence, 1466. A lust for life, a passion for power and a taste for adventure...InFlorence, everyone has a passion. With 60,000 souls inside the city, crammed into a cobweb of clattering streets, countless alleys, towers, workshops, tanneries, cloisters, churches and...
Brilliant' BERNARD CORNWELL'Enthralling' THE TIMES'Nobody writing today depicts the chaos, terror and brutality of war better' MATTHEW HARFFYINTRODUCING ROGUISH HERO JACK LARK: SOLDIER, LEADER, IMPOSTER.A compelling military adventure for fans of Bernard Cornwell, Conn...
A funny and clever novel about art and reality and the way they imitate each other, from the author of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. With an introduction by Mark Lawson.Would-be novelist Fleur Talbot works for the snooty, irascible Sir Quentin Oliver at the...
Remember you must die.Dame Lettie Colston is the first of her circle to receive insinuating anonymous phone calls. Neither she, nor her friends, wish to be reminded of their mortality, and their geriatric feathers are thoroughly ruffled. As the caller's activities...
Four strangers, one addictive drama, and a season of surprises. . .When Edward invites his neighbours to watch Downton Abbey, he never imagines that his weekly screenings will change the lives of three very different women . . .Samantha married for the wrong reason:...
Ned Henry is a time-travelling historian who specialises in the mid-20th century - currently engaged in researching the bombed-out Coventry Cathedral. He's also made so many drops into the past that he's suffering from a dangerously advanced case of 'time-lag'....
A Richard and Judy Summer 2013 Book Club pick.The Sea Change by Joanna Rossiter is a haunting and moving novel about a mother and a daughter, caught between a tsunami and a war.Yesterday was Alice's wedding day. She is thousands of miles away from the home she is so...
'She was . . . marvellous' GUARDIAN 'I admired many authors. But Molly, I loved' DIANA ATHILL 'A writer of genius' WALL STREET JOURNAL Angel, formidable hostess, social charmer and mother par excellence, confidently awaits the return of her little boy from the trials...
The fifth novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Free Love,The Past and Late in the Day, Clever Girl is a tale of an ordinary life made extraordinary by the gifts of Tessa Hadley. Stella was a clever girl, everyone thought so. Living with her mother and...
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