Fatal Legacy

Lindsey Davis

An unpaid bar bill leads Flavia Albia to her most bitter and complex case yet. Decades earlier Appius Tranquillus Surus wrote his will: it freed his slaves and bequeathed his businesses to them. He left an orchard to the Prisci, a family he was friendly with, on the...

Life Worth Living

Matthew Croasmun , Ryan Mcannally-Linz , Miroslav Volf

What kind of life would be truly worth wanting?What kind of world would be truly worth seeking? How should we live?We are facing a crisis of meaning. Swept up in the obstacles of the day-to-day, the deeper questions of our fundamental purpose linger just beneath the...

The House of Eve

Sadeqa Johnson

Reading the Glass

Elliot Rappaport

What's in a cloud? What separates a tropical storm from a winter blizzard? And what exactly is El Niño? Elliot Rappaport, a professional captain of traditional sailing ships, has spent three decades at sea, where understanding weather could be the difference between...

Battle Song

Ian Ross

When the Mountains Dance

Christine Toomey

'In the wake of the strongest earthquake in Italy for nearly forty years and the many aftershocks that followed, Italians began speaking of the earth beneath our feet as la terra ballerina, the dancing earth. The dance they spoke of was unrelenting.'Foreign...

Jamie

L.D. Lapinski

Saving Time

Jenny Odell

**THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER**'To read it is ... to experience how freedom might feel' Oliver Burkeman'The visionary author of How to Do Nothing returns ... Expect to feel changed by this radical way of seeing' EsquireWe're living on the wrong clock. And it's...

Murder Under the Tuscan Sun

Rachel Rhys

'Rachel Rhys is in a league of her own, creating compelling, engrossing historical mysteries that grip readers by the throat every single time' LISA JEWELL'Rachel Rhys should be everyone's summer reader' CLARE MACKINTOSH------------An isolated castle, a deadly crime. Is...

Ghosts in the Hedgerow

Tom Moorhouse

'A delight' Hugh Warwick, ecologist and author of A Prickly Affair'Hilarious and heartbreaking' Lee Schofield, author of Wild Fell'A triumph' Charles Foster, author of Cry of the Wild, Being a Human and A Little Brown Sea'A necessary nature book, with prose as sharp as...

Emma Brown

Clare Boylan

When Charlotte Bronte died in 1855, she left behind the beginnings of a new novel - twenty pages of a work in progress called Emma. Now, almost 150 years later, Clare Boylan has returned to this most intriguing of fragments, and turned them into an astonishing story of...

Beyond the Reach of Earth

Ken Macleod

'IF YOU LIKE SCIENCE FICTION YOU WILL LOVE THIS. . . A ROLLICKING GOOD READ' Scotsman on Beyond the Hallowed Sky'MACLEOD'S BEST BOOK TO DATE' SFX on Beyond the Hallowed SkyTHE FERMI ARE AWAKE. With the invention of faster-than-light travel there is nowhere that humanity...

Until Proven Innocent

Nicola Williams

WINNER OF THE DIVERSE BOOK AWARDS READERS CHOICE AWARD 2024‘Oozes authenticity, honesty and grit’ Daily MailTHE BRILLIANTLY TAUT AND TWISTY NEW LEGAL THRILLER FOLLOWING BARRISTER LEE MITCHELL IN HER MOST CONTROVERSIAL CASE YETWhen the teenage son of a south London...

Jacky Ha-Ha Gets the Last Laugh

James Patterson

The third instalment in the hilarious Jacky Ha-Ha series!Jacky Hart finally knows the thrill of having people laugh with her (not at her). She tries to put her comedy and theatre skills to use in her summer job-but the boardwalk crowds aren't exactly adoring. So Jacky...

Run Britain

Nick Butter

In the spring of 2021, as the UK's latest pandemic lockdowns were lifted, Nick Butter set out from the Eden Project to become the fastest person to cover every mile of Britain's mainland coastline on foot.Battling the most extreme winds Britain had seen in 100 years,...

Apples

Richard Milward

'We got a McDonald's the night my mam got lung cancer.'As a distraction from sleazy male admirers, spiteful classmates and her mother's cancer, Eve's eyes are opened to a multicolour life of one-night stands, drug-fuelled discos and cheap booze. She barely has time to...

The Company

J.M. Varese

Man-Eating Typewriter

Richard Milward

'A major talent' Irvine Welsh'Remarkable, beautiful, magic. Like Ulysses for those who can't cope with reading Ulysses' Paolo Hewitt'We're all in the gutter but some of us are ogling the sparkles.'Set at the fag-end of the 1960s and framed as a novel within a novel...

Masquerade

Oliver Soden

'This is the biography - truthful, sympathetic and thorough - that Coward deserves'DAILY TELEGRAPHThe voice, the dressing-gown, the cigarette in its holder, remain unmistakable. There is rarely a week when one of Private Lives, Hay Fever, and Blithe Spirit is not in...

Babi Yar

A. Anatoli , David Floyd

This gripping story of Kyiv during the Second World War told by a young boy who saw it all.'Rightly hailed a masterpiece' Daily Mail'So here is my invitation: enter into my fate, imagine that you are twelve, that the world is at war and that nobody knows what is going...