*WINNER OF THE NERO BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION 2025**LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2025**WINNER OF THE WINSTON GRAHAM HISTORICAL PRIZE 2026**SHORTLISTED FOR THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE FOR HISTORICAL FICTION 2026*'A book about honest work and modest dreams, about sons and their duty, and those brief, wonderful moments when we glimpse the possibility of living a different life.
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2016 DESMOND ELLIOTT PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR THE 2016 WALKER SCOTT PRIZE FOR HISTORICAL FICTIONLONGLISTED FOR THE 2015 GUARDIAN FIRST BOOK AWARDLove is a bygone idea, centuries-worn.
A Sunday Independent Book of the YearAgainst the backdrop of China s Cultural Revolution and Europe s sexual revolution, the fates of two families in London and Beijing become unexpectedly intertwined, in this dazzling new novel from the author of Mrs Engels.
'I am as Ambitious as ever any of my Sex was, is, or can be; though I cannot be Henry the Fifth, or Charles the Second, yet I endeavour to be Margaret the First.
COMMENDED FOR THE 2011 KATE CHALLIS RAKA AWARDSHORTLISTED FOR THE 2006 QUEENSLAND PREMIER S LITERARY AWARDS AUSTRALIAN SHORT STORY COLLECTION Change for us came so unexpectedly.
The ninth volume in the thrilling adventure series featuring Nathan Peake, British naval officer and spy, finds a young America divided against itself .
THE BOOK: In every generation, according to Jewish tradition, thirty-six just men, the Lamed-waf, are born to take the burden of the world's suffering upon themselves.
I have heard, but not believed, the spirits of the dead may walk again A hidden roomWhen architect Johnny Carter is asked to redesign a long-abandoned Victorian shoe factory, he discovers a hidden room deep in the basement.
WINNER OF THE 2025 SALTIRE SCOTTISH FICTION OF THE YEAR from the bestselling author of The Second Sight of Zachary Cloudesley'A triumph - vivid, exquisite, enthralling' Kate Griffin, author of Fyneshade'Lusk conjures prose of a spell-binding elegance and charm' Essie Fox, author of The Fascination Witty, insightful and moving Sunday Times---'I shall be a thousand different Marys and, in such manner, shall find the one I wish to be.
Katherine Howe, New York Times bestselling author of The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane returns with her dazzling new historical novel, The House of Velvet and Glass, set against the backdrop of the sinking of the Titanic.
Fans of Katie Flynn, Rosamunde Pilcher and Dinah Jeffries will love this emotional and sweeping wartime romance set in Singapore from bestselling author Margaret Mayhew.
A must read for fans of Cecelia Ahern, Fiona Valpy and Katie Flynn - this is an enthralling and gripping romantic adventure from the multi-million copy seller Mary Jane Staples.
A BBC RADIO 2 BOOK CLUB PICK 'I adored this book' Florence Knapp'An impressive, involving novel' The Times'I was enthralled' Jennie Godfrey London, 1835.
An in-depth look at the US' desperate battle to secure Carentan and support the Normandy invasion and the elite German units that sought to repel them.
An in-depth look at the US' desperate battle to secure Carentan and support the Normandy invasion and the elite German units that sought to repel them.
The acclaimed true story—originally published in Mountain Gazette and a finalist for the Livingston Award in International Reporting One night in September 1943, a Jewish mother took her nine-year-old son in one arm and five-year-old daughter in the other and jumped off a moving train to save their lives.
Jennifer Higgie presents a year in the life of Rich,ard Dadd, infamous inmate of one of England's most notorious sanitariums, London's Bethlem Hospital, better known as Bedlam.
Since meeting her husband Ruan, Baron St Trevone, Jemima has discovered a good deal more about the world of governmental intelligencers - that's spies to the uninitiated - than she had ever thought to learn.
Demon Copperhead meets Les Choristes in this tender coming-of-age story, told through the intersecting lives of a group of troubled boys in a home for delinquent young men in the American south in the 1980s'A stunningly beautiful debut; a novel of life on the margins, written with style and grace, and populated with characters that stay with you long after the final page' Tom Newlands, author of Only Here, Only NowLONGLISTED FOR THE CENTER FOR FICTION 2026 FIRST NOVEL PRIZE*** I don t know about that, sir.
In a thrilling new series set during the explosive Texas Whiskey Wars, a proud family of distillers faces off with a ruthless rival who's trading shots of liquor with hot lead.
About the Book: The Mind Makers takes readers on a compelling journey through the world of political marketing — from the legendary "e;Daisy"e; TV ad of 1964 to the Cambridge Analytica data scandal — exposing the hidden machinery that shapes public opinion and manufactures political reality in the modern age.
'Excellent in basically every imaginable way' IRISH INDEPENDENT'A revelatory meditation on humanity' GUARDIAN'De Tores builds Selkirk's world with detail and patience it's an impressive imaginative feat' THE TIMES'Beautiful, fascinating, heartbreaking, philosophically engaging and often very funny' JO HARKINHow big must a man's folly be, that it can cost him the whole of his life?
