'A delicate novel, finely judged and full of insight' Hilary MantelSHORTLISTED FOR THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE FOR HISTORICAL FICTION 2023SHORTLISTED FOR THE HWA GOLD CROWN AWARD 2023One Wednesday morning in November 1912 the ageing Thomas Hardy, entombed by paper and books and increasingly estranged from his wife Emma, finds her dying in her bedroom.
From Hazel Gaynor and Heather Webb, the bestselling authors of Meet Me in Monaco, comes a coming-of-age novel set in pre-WWII Europe, perfect for fans of Jennifer Robson, Beatriz Williams, and Kate Quinn.
Based on a seldom-told true story, this novel is perfect for everyone who is fascinated by Britains royal familya behind the scenes look into the nurseries of little princes and the foibles of big princes.
For readers of The Paris Wife and Z comes this vivid novel full of drama, passion, tragedy, and beauty that stunningly imagines the life of iconic fashion designer Coco Chanelthe ambitious, gifted laundrywomans daughter who revolutionized fashion, built an international empire, and become one of the most influential and controversial figures of the twentieth century.
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERIn a compelling, richly researched novel that draws from thousands of letters and original sources, bestselling authors Stephanie Dray and Laura Kamoie tell the fascinating, untold story of Thomas Jeffersons eldest daughter, Martha Patsy Jefferson Randolpha woman who kept the secrets of our most enigmatic founding father and shaped an American legacy.
An absorbing work of literary historical fiction that brings to life a little-known chapter of the American Revolution from the author of The Widow's War.
** Shortlisted for the 2020 International Dublin Literary Award **The radical, urgent new novel from the author of The End of Eddy - a personal and powerful story of violence.
Ambientado en la majestuosa geografía de los Andes, este libro apasionante cuenta la vida de Manuela Sáenz, quien ganó su lugar en la historia como el gran amor del libertador de Suramérica, Simón Bolívar.
'Got under my skin in the way the best writing can' SHEILA HETIA fearless and savagely funny examination of masculinity under late capitalism, from an electrifying new voiceSet in Philly one year into Trump's presidency, Sean Thor Conroe's audacious, freewheeling debut follows our eponymous fuccboi, Sean, as he attempts to live meaningfully in a world that doesn't seem to need him.
Perfect for fans of House of Guinness Netflix series, the Top Ten bestselling novel inspired by the lives of the Guinness girls, granddaughters of Edward Guinness 1st Earl Iveagh, and Ireland's most famous daughters.
'Alison Weir transforms Henry VIII's much-maligned fourth wife into a woman of passion, courage and mystery' Tracy Borman Alison Weir, historian and author of the Sunday Times bestsellers Katherine of Aragon: The True Queen, Anne Boleyn: A King's Obsession and Jane Seymour: The Haunted Queen, paints a spellbinding portrait of Anna of Kleve, Henry VIII's fourth queen.
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING SERIES'Alison Weir really gets into the soul of her subject' 'Absolutely brilliant, I couldn't put it down' 'I cried at the end' 'Nobody brings this era to life as magnificently as Alison Weir' The third enthralling novel in the Six Tudor Queens series by Sunday Times bestseller Alison Weir.
From the international phenomenon Karl Ove Knausgaard, the extraordinary final volume of 'the most significant literary enterprise of our times' (Guardian).
The Great Alone is a daring, beautiful, stay-up-all-night story about love, loss and the remarkable and enduring strength of women from the multimillion-copy bestselling author of The Women, The Four Winds and The Nightingale.
By the Sunday Times bestselling author of ROMANTIC COMEDY and PREP'Honest, wonderful and smart as hell' Guardian'Curtis Sittenfeld is in a league of her own' ObserverAll I did is marry him.
After exhausting their resources in the slums of Los Angeles, a junkie and his wife settle in London's "e;murder mile,"e; the city's most violent and criminally corrupt section.
Maura Moynihan's first novel, Covergirl, blends reality and fiction in a brilliant and exciting roman clef that draws richly from the author's own adventures as a Warhol Girl and from her many years of working with Tibetan refugees in Asia.
The hilarious international bestselling novel that has had pensioners ditching their sticks and zimmers to follow the age-defying, youth inducing antics inside The Secret Diary of Hendrik Groen, 83 Years Old .
New York Times bestselling author of The Falls, Blonde, and We Were the Mulvaneys, Joyce Carol Oates returns with a dark, wry, satirical taleinspired by an unsolved American true-crime mystery.
'Electrifying, deeply unsettling and so, so satisfying' Meg Mason, author of Sorrow and Bliss'I raced through this compelling tale about shame, single motherhood, and the lies we tell ourselves and other people' Daily MailHow can you write other people's stories, when you won't admit the truth of your own?
