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Imagine you are twenty-two and have never met anyone your own age. You live with your parents and younger siblings in an empty tower block outside ...

Set in Tasmania and Antarctica, this is the beautifully told new novel from bestselling author Favel Parrett. When the Night Comes tells the story ...

This is the forgotten story of the million white Europeans, snatched from their homes and taken in chains to the great slave markets of North Afric...

* The Whitbread-shortlisted novel from the bestselling author of THE PROMISE OF HAPPINESS *'Brilliant, dazzling, unsettling; subtle and haunting; c...

Do you hate going forward? Do you shudder when a colleague wants to reach out? Are you disgusted by low-hanging fruit, sick of being on the team, a...

'Haunting, atmospheric' Samira Ahmed'I loved this immensely evocative novel' Anita SethiGripping and atmospheric, Winter in Tabriz tells the story ...

Gripping and atmospheric, Winter in Tabriz tells the story of four young people living in 1970s Iran during the months immediately prior to the rev...

In this gloriously original social history, Travis Elborough argues that our national character - our snobbishness and willingness to laugh at ours...

The A?chele family were decent, cultured, peace-loving Germans trying their hardest not to get swept up in the madness of Hitler's Third Reich. But...

It's market day in an English city two years into the Great War. The farmers are coming in from the country, the cattle are being driven through th...