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Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor were a Sixties supercharged couple in an era of supercharged couples. As a pairing they were fantasy figures, impossibly desirable. Liz supple and soft, in perfumes and furs – yet with something demonic and lethal about her. Dick, in turn, with his ravaged, handsome face,…
”Soaring, spellbinding, utterly epic” MUSA OKWONGA”A time-travelling wonder of a read” PATERSON JOSEPH
”A work of fierce imagination” NII AYIKWEI PARKES
WHERE IS ADA?
In a small village in West Africa, in what will one day become Ghana, Ada gives birth again, and again the baby…
Flora Mackie was twelve when she first crossed the Arctic Circle on her father’s whaling ship. Now she is returning to the frozen seas as head of her own expedition of exploration.
Jakob de Beyn was raised in Manhattan but his yearning for new horizons leads him to the Arctic as part of a rival expedition. When…
A gripping alternative history thriller set in the Second World War, from the internationally acclaimed and bestselling author of the Bernie Gunther novels.
Autumn 1943. Hitler knows he cannot win the war: now he must find a way to make peace. FDR and Stalin are willing to negotiate; only Churchill refuses to…
Quiet Escapes is the definitive guide to travelling to find your Zen, with 50 carefully selected trips.
In Hidden Strengths, Dr. Lynn Kern Koegel and Claire LaZebnik explore how the strengths of children and young adults diagnosed with ASD are commonly overlooked or misjudged, even by trained professionals. The authors examine how outdated attitudes, a lack of sufficient training and an overreliance on standardised…
’Unputdownable’ MICK HERRON’JP Delaney is King of Thrillers’ FIONA CUMMINS
When Finn Hensen gets a call from his sister Jess to say their father has died, neither is heartbroken. Their parents divorced many years ago, after which their father, Jimmy, continued to live a bohemian lifestyle in…
In Paris 1870, three wandering souls find themselves in a city set to descend into war.
’A historical epic that Jessie Burton fans will adore’ GRAZIA’Exquisite, relevant and immersive’ ANNA MAZZOLA’A triumph’ GUARDIAN
Anne is a former patient from a women’s asylum trying to…
Rome, 1955. The artists are gathering together for a photograph. In one of Rome’s historic villas, a party glitters with socialites and patrons. Bear Bavinsky, creator of vast, masculine, meaty canvases, is their god. He is at the centre of the picture. His wife, Natalie, edges out of the shot.
From the side of…
A twisty new murder story from the bestselling author of the Dr Ruth Galloway Mysteries. An old man lies dead and it looks like poison, but his wife isn’t the only one who had reason to kill him.
Brighton, 1965
When theatrical impresario Bert Billington is found dead in his retirement home, no one suspects foul…
An alternative history with a strong feminist twist, perfect for fans of Robert Harris’ Fatherland, Christina Dalcher’s Vox and the dystopian novels of Margaret Atwood.
This innovative and unique book is a visual guide to the buildings that surround us. Architectural features are pinpointed and labelled on images of buildings so that, unlike with other architectural dictionaries, the reader doesn’t have to know the name before looking it up. Clear line drawings and extensive…
’I’m sorry? A fantasy romcom that is ACTUALLY funny and has a Black woman lead? And there’s buckets of nachos? And a lesbian centaur? Give me a million books in the series, please.’ Goodreads review
All I wanted to do was live my life in peace. Maybe get a cat, expand my spice farm. Really…
**THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO IS BACK!**
**The sixth in the Millennium series – more than 100 million copies sold worldwide**
”Expertly told, the plot crackles with life” DAILY MAIL
”Salander is centre stage . . . A pacy read” SUNDAY EXPRESS
”Exciting and disturbing”…
Some people think foxes go around collecting qi, or life force, but nothing could be further than the truth. We are living creatures, just like you, only usually better looking . . .
Manchuria, 1908: A young woman is found frozen in the snow.
Her death is clouded by rumours of foxes, believed to lure people into peril…
From the internationally bestselling author of the Artemis Fowl series: Eoin Colfer’s first adult fantasy novel is a hilarious, high-octane adventure about a vodka-drinking, Flashdance-loving dragon who’s been hiding out from the world – and potential torch-carrying mobs – in a Louisiana bayou…
Constance Verity – soon to be played on the big screen by Crazy Rich Asians superstar Awkwafina! – is still saving the universe, one crisis at a time – but now the rules have changed. Constance Verity is still saving the universe, one crisis at a time, but the rules have changed.
She’s managed…
From Andrew Caldecott, the bestselling author of ROTHERWEIRD, comes a dark, enigmatic, compelling new adventure.
That awkward moment when your date turns up wearing a T-shirt in subzero weather, just to display a ’Tough Mudder: Finisher’ t-shirt. Or when you find out your flatmate’s password is cryptolegend007. Or when you overhear a loud conversation (with no one) at the checkout queue about how…
THE NO. 1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING AUTHOR27 MILLION BOOKS SOLDWINNER OF THE GLASS KEY AWARDIn the penultimate thriller in the New York Times and #1 internationally bestselling Department Q series, Copenhagen’s cold cases division must hunt for a nefarious criminal who has slipped under the radar for decades.On…
How often have you seen a label on a product proclaiming it to be made from ’recycled material’, ’bioplastic’ or similar, without it giving any details of the concrete environmental benefits? What do these terms really mean? A drive for greater transparency and demonstrable environmental…
An Honorary Citizen of the U.S.A., and designated as one of the Righteous among the Nations by Israel, Raoul Wallenberg’s heroism in Budapest at the height of the Holocaust saved countless lives, and ultimately cost him his own.
A series of unlikely coincidences led to the appointment of Wallenberg, by trade a…
A beautifully illustrated and thoroughly engaging cultural history of beekeeping – packed with anecdote, humour and enriching historical detail. The perfect gift. Beekeeper and garden historian Lotte Moeller explores the activities inside and outside the hive while charting the bees’ natural order and…
’It should be mandatory reading … Buy the book, do the work and then push more copies into the hands of everyone you know’ Emma Gannon
Me and White Supremacy shows readers how to dismantle the privilege within themselves so that they can stop (often unconsciously) inflicting damage on people of…
”Spectacular . . . drops the reader through one trapdoor into another” A.J. FINN
It all starts with an innocuous curiosity: at the Hotel de Verbier, a luxury hotel in the Swiss Alps, there is no Room 622.This anomaly piques the interest of Joel Dicker, Switzerland’s most famous literary star, who…
It’s never too late to grow the f*ck up.
And New York Times bestselling author Sarah Knight is hereto help! With her no-bullsh*t bible for the modern adult, you’ll become more self-aware, self-sufficient and resourceful – and turn grownup responsibilities into exciting opportunities for making YOUR…
’Deeply moving’ Katie Fforde’Wise and wonderful’ Veronica Henry’Compelling and beautifully written’ Sarah Morgan
The McKenzies are your average complicated family: knotted together by in-jokes, arguments and a few closely-guarded secrets. Thirty-something sisters Leni and Alice…
From Silvia Moreno-Garcia, the New York Times bestselling author of MEXICAN GOTHIC (July 2020) and VELVET WAS THE NIGHT (August 2021), comes UNTAMED SHORE, a dark cocktail mixing a nuanced coming-of-age story with a classical noir.
’Brutality takes on an almost divine quality’ LA Review of Books
Baja…
Swordplay, magic, intrigue and friendships stronger than iron: the first volume in the new swashbuckling fantasy series set in the universe of THE GREATCOATS.
Damelas Chademantaigne picked a poor night to flee a judicial duel.
He has precious little hope of escaping the wrath of the Vixen, the most feared duellist in…
A twisting new thriller from the author of The Truth about the Harry Quebert Affair
’IT’LL EASILY BE ONE OF MY BOOKS OF THE YEAR’ Hannah Beckerman
For Alice and Hanna, saint and sinner, growing up is a trial. There is their mother, who takes a divide-and-conquer approach to child-rearing, and their father, who takes an absent one. There is also their older brother Michael, whose…
A propulsive new thriller set in London featuring Detective Harbinder Kaur from the author of the No 1 bestselling Dr Ruth Galloway Mysteries. A murderer hides in plain sight – in the police.
DS Cassie Fitzgerald has a secret – but it’s one she’s deleted from her memory. In the 1990s when she…
’This book is pure, sexy, dirty joy’ Goodreads reviewer on That Time I Got Drunk and Saved a Demon
When I was a little girl, my Ma used to read me stories every night. Some were epic adventures with high stakes and exciting twists while others were of princesses trapped in towers guarded by fierce dragons.…
Fashion writing now enjoys its highest-ever profile as the digital world has multiplied the number of platforms on which it is available. No longer confined to restrictive print schedules or occasional broadcast slots, fashion has become an ever-present content driver. With retailers, brands and designers all in on the…
From the bestselling author of THE GREATCOATS: seven war mages with dark pasts and special powers must come together to fight an unknown enemy – but the stakes are higher than anyone can imagine . . . and someone’s setting the seven up for a fall.
Picture a wizard. Go ahead, close your eyes. There he is,…
Maddie and Ian’s love story began with a chance encounter at a party, while she was a travel writer visiting her best friend, Jo. Now, almost two decades later, they are married with a beautiful son, Charlie, and living the perfect suburban life in middle America.
But when a camping accident leaves Maddie badly…
Constance Verity – soon to be played on the big screen by Crazy Rich Asians superstar Awkwafina! – is still saving the universe, one crisis at a time – but now the rules have changed.