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It's never too late to live your dreams!

What price would you pay for fame?

Not even love could stop her.

Georges Simenon's chilling portrayal of tragic love, persecution and betrayal.

A powerful 1931 portrayal of a German town on the brink of chaos, from bestselling author Hans Fallada (writer of Alone in Berlin)It is summer, 1929, and in a small German town a storm is brewing.

A murder.

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2022 McILVANNEY PRIZE FOR BEST SCOTTISH CRIME NOVEL OF THE YEARAs the house burns, the hunt for a killer begins.

For eight years, big game hunter and war hero Harold Ryan has been presumed dead, lost in the Amazon rainforest while hunting for diamonds.

'Forsyth has lost none of his storytelling finesse and geopolitical grasp .

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER FROM THE AUTHOR OF EXPECTATION'Hope breathes fresh thinking into the dusty corners and overgrown hedges of the English country house dilemma' The Times'Superb Anna Hope engages, head-on, with some of the most urgent and challenging issues facing the world today, and transforms them into spellbinding family drama' Jonathan Coe Beautiful .

What happens when the cops become the prey?

Selected as a Book of the Year in 2017 in the Irish Times and The Times SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA FIRST NOVEL AWARD 2017 A delicate, crystalline, hugely impressive novel He's yet another masterful younger writer coming through Wonderful - Sebastian BarryHer house is on Montpelier Parade just across town, but it might as well be a different world.

Love, rivalry.

Charlie, a wealthy banker with an uneasy conscience, invites his troubled cousin Matthew to visit him and his wife in their idyllic mountain-top house over the summer.

Across London people are dying in apparently unconnected freak accidents.

'Not for the faint-hearted.

After this city hits midnight, everyone becomes equal.

They say there's no place like home.

The first body comes as a shock The second brings horror The third signals the beginning of a nightmare When fifteen-year-old Isla Bell finds three bodies propped against Hadrian s Wall, her whole world falls apart.

'Hugely enjoyable and compelling' LOUISE DOUGLAS'Full of friendship, grief, love and loss .

A feel-good tale of old secrets, new friendships and second chances from the Sunday Times bestselling author of An Ideal Husband'You won't want to put it down once you start reading' Five Star Reader Review'Had me hooked from the first page.

'Oh how I wish the Comfort Food Cafe was real!

'Stylish, vibrant, romantic and written in beautiful prose - the characters' various realisations that the only thing any of us have is the moment we are living in will stay with me for a very long time' KATE SAWYERFrank and Chrissy meet a few days into 70.

A richly imagined tale of one woman's search for love and belonging.

Henry and Cato is the story of two prodigal sons.

THE ACCLAIMED TRANSLATION BY ROBIN ROBERTSON (FORWARD PRIZE, MAN BOOKER PRIZE SHORTLIST 2018)Euripides' Medea, the brutally powerful ancient Greek tragedy that reverberates down the centuries, has been brought to fresh and urgent life by one of our best modern poets.

FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF FATES AND FURIES AND MATRIX'Everything a reader might have expected from this gifted writer, and more' Stephen King'Bold and beautiful' Lorrie Moore'Pleasurably surreal' Guardian'Will give you paper cuts from turning pages' Marie ClaireWillie Upton returns to her ancestral home of Templeton, New York after a disastrous affair with her married archaeology professor.

The ADDICTIVE THRILLER perfect for fans of Fiona Barton's The Child and Lisa Jewell's Then She Was Gone.

The highly anticipated sequel to the cult classic Grasshopper JungleIn the small town of Ealing, Iowa, Austin and his best friend Robby have accidentally unleashed an unstoppable army.

New friends.

'A mad, moving, beautiful novel' IndependentThe world of Mood Indigo is a stained-glass cartoon kind of a place, where the piano dispenses cocktails, the kitchen mice dance to the sound of sunbeams, and the air is three parts jazz.

Samuel Tyne always believed he was destined for greatness.

For fans of Rachel Rhys' The Dangerous Crossing and Victoria Hislops's Cartes Postales from Greece, NOW AT THIS SPECIAL EBOOK PRICE It was in the shadow hours of deepest night that this tapestry of lies fell to rags .

WINNER OF THE WORLD BOOK DAY - BOOKS TO TALK ABOUT PRIZE 2008WINNER OF THE JOHN LLEWELLYN RHYS PRIZE 2005WINNER OF THE WAVERTON GOOD READ PRIZE 2005A is for Apple.

London, March 1992.

The legend goes like this: Vincent Smith met bandmates Stevie Mullin and Lynton Powell at a Sex Pistols concert, where he tried to kiss Sid Vicious?

The New York Times No.

A mysterious depiction of masked revellers at the Venice carnival hangs in the college rooms of Oliver's old professor in Cambridge.

Shortlisted for the Orange Prize, nominated for an Edgar Award, an NAACP Image Award and a Los Angeles Times Book PrizeOn a dark night, out on the Houston bayou to celebrate his wife's birthday, Jay Porter hears a scream.

Sometimes it just feels good being bad.

Desperate Housewives meets First Wives Club, set in the glamorous borough of Chelsea.

Compulsively readable and masterfully plotted, Long Gone does not disappoint.

Can she keep her son safe?

'Fabulous, relaxing, page-turning, dream-inspiring' MIRANDA HART'Exquisitely beautiful and so perceptive' JOANNA CANNONFrom the Costa-shortlisted author of THE OTHER HALF OF AUGUSTA HOPE and ALL MY MOTHERSCan two lost people find each other?

'Wise, provocative and wildly endearing' Guardian'Readably juicy and surreptitiously smart' Barbara KingsolverTHE MILLION-COPY BESTSELLERA Meghan Markle Book RecommendationRosemary doesn't talk much, and about certain things she's silent.

25th ANNIVERSARY EDITION OF THE BESTSELLING DEBUT ABOUT A PARTY YOU LL NEVER FORGETFOR FANS OF ONE DAY AND THE FLAT SHARE'Addictively readable' The Times'It was so much fun being reunited with Ralph, Jem, Smith and Siobahn!

Shortlisted for the Orange Prize, nominated for an Edgar Award, an NAACP Image Award and a Los Angeles Times Book PrizeOn a dark night, out on the Houston bayou to celebrate his wife's birthday, Jay Porter hears a scream.

Three women.

DISCOVER THE NAIL-BITING NEW THRILLER FROM THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'Claire Douglas is a class act - she never, ever disappoints' LISA JEWELLWhen Imogen is told she s inherited a country house near Bath, she thinks it must be a mistake.

'A true page-turner' Chat Monthly'Emotional, humorous and heartening, Julie Shackman knows how to bring the feel-good factor to fiction' Woman's WeeklyEscape to the Scottish Highlands with a brand new spring romance from bestselling author, Julie ShackmanDetermined to overcome a family tragedy, Elle Cassidy decides to reopen her late mother's ailing newsagent as a stationery shop in the quiet Scottish town of Fir Haven.