A classic murder mystery from the award-winning Michael Pearce, in which The Mamur Zapt races to prevent an explosion of religious violence in the Cairo of the 1900s.
A blockbuster novel of suspense, intrigue and revenge, from the celebrated author of Platinum Coast and EclipseKathryn de Moubray comes from a respectable English family.
Three classic Richard Sharpe adventuresRichard Sharpe and the Vitoria Campaign, February to June 1813Major Richard Sharpe awaits the opening shots of the army's new campaign with grim expectancy.
A magnificent novel that vividly evokes the atmosphere of a seventeenth century English country estate, and the seething intrigue of Rembrandt's Amsterdam where the population is in the grip of a fever of tulip trading.
From the author of THE FROZEN LAKE comes an enthralling novel of love, betrayal and idealism, as three very different young women go up to Oxford in the years immediately before World War Two.
A stirring adventure novel set amid the tumultuous clashes between the Roman and Carthaginian empires, battling for control of the Mediterranean, north Africa and Rome itself.
A brilliant, stylish novel encompassing the robust life of Boston and London, just at the time of greatest resentment and rebellion by the colonists against the British Government, and displaying the remarkably contemporary prejeudice shown by people on both sides.
The epic story concludes in Cherish, the sixth in New York Times bestselling author Tracy Wolff's lush, action-packed and romantic young adult paranormal fantasy series.
Alex Devereux, former cavalry Major and hardened mercenary takes on a mission to raise a private army and attack a diamond mine in Africa - and in doing so, comes face to face with an ancient prophecy with earth-shattering implications.
A novel of the American West narrates the story of a dying man's attempts to make peace with his daughter, their struggle to rescue his granddaughter from renegades and slave traders, and his lifelong search for inner peace.
The debut novel from Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Suzan-Lori Parks is a gutsy, funny, tragic and completely original work for fans of William Faulkner and Alice Walker.
A sensational international bestseller, and winner of Frances' coveted Prix Goncourt, 'The Lover' is an unforgettable portrayal of the incandescent relationship between two lovers, and of the hate that slowly tears the girl's family apart.
George Washington's slave Caesar escapes to fight for the British against his former master - in this action-packed historical adventure set against the spectacular background of the American Revolution.
FOUR WOMEN AND THE MEN THEY ARE FORBIDDEN TO LOVEFour nuns find themselves suddenly thrust into a hostile world they long ago abandoned for the safety of the convent.
The International Bestseller from the Man Booker Prize shortlisted author'An absorbing story of a world in transition' JM Coetzee'A Doctor Zhivago for the Far East' The IndependentRajkumar is only another boy, helping on a market stall in the dusty square outside the royal palace, when the British force the Burmese King, Queen and all the Court into exile.
From the Booker Prize-winning author of 'Offshore', 'The Blue Flower' and 'Innocence', this is a funny, touching, authentic story of life at Broadcasting House during the Blitz.
In her second volume of short stories, which follows the hugely successful 'Encounters', Barbara Erskine has created a compelling world of love, betrayal, suspense and grief.
From the Booker Prize-winning author of 'Offshore', 'The Blue Flower' and 'Innocence' comes this Booker Prize-shortlisted tale of a troubled Moscow printworks .
In his first paperback for HarperCollins, master storyteller Jack Higgins displays all his customary skills in a heart-pounding adventure with a less familiar setting - 19th-century rural Ireland - and featuring a swashbuckling new hero.
Twenty years ago Katherine Neville's groundbreaking thriller THE EIGHT was a global bestseller - a thriller in the style of THE DA VINCI CODE way before Dan Brown ever got there.
There's little room in this world for a moral manMeet Early "e;Trenchmouth"e; Taggart, a man born and orphaned in 1903, a man nicknamed for his lifelong oral affliction.
Discover the scope of the world's history* With exclusive article by Richard Overy *Beginning with the story of early man, and culminating in the rise of global terrorism and environmental issues, the text is a breathtaking and unrivalled narrative which includes voyages of discovery, revolutions and wars, dynasties and empires.
With this novel of mounting tension among apparently normal people, Ngaio Marsh achieved a triumph on a level with her most famous detective novels Surfeit of Lampreys, Scales of Justice and Off With His Head.
