Narrative theme: Politics

In Star Wars: The Phantom Menace, Palpatine tells Amidala that "e;the Chancellor has little real power .

Seventeen years after fleeing the revolutionary Ethiopia that claimed his father's life, Sepha Stephanos is a man still caught between two existences: the one he left behind, aged nineteen, and the new life he has forged in Washington D.

'A bittersweet work, tough and touching at the same time.

A fashionable house in a London terrace, the House of Journalists is renowned around the world as a place of refuge for exiled writers who have fallen foul of oppressive regimes.

Excitement is building for this year s Twammies and Clementine Darling is hotly tipped to win Best Female Singer and Political Spokesperson!

Perfect for fans of Game of Thrones, Joe Abercrombie and Robin Hobb, this is the thrilling and captivating sequel to The City from bestselling author Stella Gemmell.

Perfect for fans of Game of Thrones, Joe Abercrombie and Robin Hobb, a stunningly imagined and thrilling epic fantasy from bestselling author Stella Gemmell.

Let Anne McCaffrey, storyteller extraordinare and New York Times and Sunday Times bestselling author, take you on a journey to a whole new world: Pern.

Let Anne McCaffrey, storyteller extraordinare and New York Times and Sunday Times bestselling author, take you on a journey to a whole new world: Pern.

Terrific Daily Mail Tremendous Guardian Page-turning The Times Gripping Daily TelegraphAutumn 1939.

**Now adapted for the stage by Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti as a Lyric Hammersmith Theatre and Birmingham Rep co-production running 22nd May 21st June 2025**SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA FIRST NOVEL AWARD AND LONGLISTED FOR THE DESMOND ELLIOTT PRIZEFROM THE AUTHOR OF THE BOY WITH THE TOPKNOT AND EMPIRELAND'Enormously enjoyable' SUNDAY TIMES'A satirical masterpiece' TELEGRAPH'Sanghera's tender and funny book is a cracking and pacy read' OBSERVER'A stunning novel .

Despite the heavy rain, the officer at Polling Station 14 finds it odd that by midday on National Election day, only a handful of voters have turned out.

Bestselling author Douglas Jackson expertly brings the Roman Empire to life in this brutal and bloody historical adventure.

Meili, a young peasant woman born in the remote heart of China, is married to Kongzi, a village school teacher, and a distant descendant of Confucius.

The moving story of a brother and a sister caught in the tide of the Cold War K the is a Jewish sculptor living in East Berlin.

Banned for many years in the author's native South Africa, Looking on Darkness tells the story of actor Joseph Malan as he awaits execution for the murder of his white lover.

Maggie Helwig's stunning British debut is an extraordinary war novel, a poignant and gripping story about the ripples that carry on long after the fighting is over, and about two people kept apart by history, ethics and human frailty.

Christopher Isherwood gives fascinating insight into pre-war Berlin.

It s a brutal race to the finish line .

After a chance encounter on a train the English teacher William Bradshaw starts a close friendship with the mildly sinister Arthur Norris.

THE 2025 BOOKER PRIZE WINNING AUTHOR OF FLESH It is 1948 in Russia and Aleksandr, a major in the MGB (the forerunner of the KGB) is sent to an isolated psychiatric clinic to investigate one of the patients there.

Read the searing first novel from the celebrated author of Beloved, which immerses us in the tragic, torn lives of a poor black family in post-Depression 1940s Ohio.

The nation is stunned silent when presidential hopeful James Kilcannon is shot dead point blank, while sharing the stage at a benefit concert with his rock star girlfriend Stacy Tarrant.

William Lasco is a self-made multimillionaire who's got an eye for wealth and influence, the ear of the President, and a talent for using both to get what he wants.

Set in Alabama, society lawyer Adam Shaw is married to the beautiful Kris Ann who has bound him to a life he despises and her father, Roland Cade, his senior partner and rival.

The Making of Zombie Wars is a hilarious black comedy from Aleksandar Hemon, celebrated author of The Lazarus Project.

In Ireland in 1826 millions knew only famine, oppression and degradation.

This is a vivid and memorable novel set in Dublin, 1916, during the Easter Rebellion and the bitter years which followed.

It is 1649.

In Half a Life we are introduced to the compelling figure of Willie Chandran.

With a preface by the author.

Miguel Street, V.

A pulse-racing spy thriller by Andrew Grant, now the co-author of the Jack Reacher novels as Andrew Child.

Winner of the Booker Prize 1971 and nominated for the Golden Man Booker Prize in 2018.

SOON TO BE FEATURED ON THE GRAHAM NORTON BOOK CLUB PODCAST ON AUDIBLEDiscover Albert French's haunting first novel; a story of racial injustice, as unsentimental as it is heartbreaking.

'Her gallery of personages is huge, her scene painting superb, her pathos controlled, her humour quiet and civilised' - Anthony Burgess'Glittering characterisation, sharp and eloquent writing' - Sunday Telegraph'Wonderfully entertaining' - ObserverBucharest, 1940.

'So glittering is the overall parade - and so entertaining the surface - that the trilogy remains excitingly vivid' - Sunday Times'Wonderfully entertaining' - ObserverAthens, 1941.

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When the Americans make an offer to buy land in Iceland to build a NATO airbase after the Second World War, a storm of protest is provoked throughout the country.

'The most innovative and challenging writer of fiction in his generation in Russia' Guardian Based on a real-life crime which horrified Russia in 1869, Dostoevsky intended his novel to castigate the fanaticism of his country's new political reformers, particularly those known as Nihilists.

In the twilight years of Communist East Germany, Bruno Krug, a womanising 'People s Champion of Art and Culture' who once penned a world-famous novel, falls for Theresa Aden, a music student from the West.

In 1989, the memorable year when the Wall came down, a university student in Berlin on his early morning run finds a corpse lying on a park bench and alerts the authorities.

In Great Waters is a fictional history both familiar and alien.

Look after your sister, Tinashe.

In a wind-battered Mayo cottage, playwright Jack Ferris tries to salvage something from his broken love affair with Catherine Adams.

THE BOOK; Alice Kessleris a fighter and when she is told that her husband only has a few months left to live, she refuses to accept it.

It is the year 1152, and a beautiful woman rides through France, fleeing her crown, her two young daughters and a shattered marriage.

For Cal, some choices are devastatingly simple.

Ahmadou Kourouma's remarkable novel is narrated by Bingo, a West African sora - storyteller and king's fool.

Every week, a writer of political propaganda and a professional blood donor meet for dinner.