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When we think of great events in the history of the world, we tend to think of war, revolution, political upheaval or natural catastrophe. But thro...

More than a capital city, Londoners had witnessed the unthinkable - the public execution of a king at Whitehall. Thousands had died in the Plague o...

Barely forty years ago, Abu Dhabi was a fishing village on the Arabian Gulf. Now the capital of the United Arab Emirates, its citizens are each wor...

Annie is obese, lonely and hopeful. Armed with self-help books, her cat and a collection of cow-shaped milk jugs, she moves into her new home and s...

NOW A MAJOR FILM STARRING TOM HANKSThe million-copy bestselling phenomenon: a funny, moving, uplifting tale of love and community that will leave y...

For fans of Elizabeth Day's The Party and Riot Club comes a witty, intelligent and darkly sexy portrait of life among the beautiful people. In a de...

A STUNNING NEW EDITION CELEBRATING 100 YEARS SINCE FIRST PUBLICATIONWith a new introduction by Kamila Shamsie, author of Home Fire, winner of the W...

In turn-of-the-century Australia, Tim Shea supports his young family by running a general store in a remote riverside town, where he finds the same...

A STUNNING NEW EDITION OF FORSTER'S CLASSIC NOVELWith a new introduction by Sarah Winman, bestselling author of Still Life'One of the most beautifu...

With magical, intricate papercuts Rob Ryan tells the story of two birds about to become parents for the first time. From the hopes for their unborn...

Longlisted for the Booker Prize After the upheavals of the Second World War, the Richardson family - Sam, Ellen and their young son Joe - settle ba...

Alma Braithwaite was a teenager in Exeter when her boarding school was bombed in 1942. Twenty-one years later, she remains alone in the house where...

A SUNDAY TIMES AND TLS BOOK OF THE YEAR'Fascinating and important'Natalie Haynes, author of Stone Blind'Monumental and vividly imagined'Daily Teleg...

Kitty Wellington, the narrator of Clare Morrall's absorbing sure-footed first novel, has been brought up in a large family by her painter father. S...

Augustus was the founder of the Roman Empire, adopted son of Julius Caesar, friend and later foe of Mark Antony, patron of Horace and Virgil. Frank...

Melvyn Bragg's first ever memoir - an elegiac, intimate account of growing up in post-war Cumbria, which vividly evokes a vanished world.'The best ...

'The best thing he's ever written . . . I loved it' ObserverMelvyn Bragg's first ever memoir - an elegiac, intimate account of growing up in post-w...

A septuagenarian contract killer, a chronic hypochondriac, two zombie-creating comedians, a good Samaritan and a man called Barnaby whose holiday t...

When Dimp Bettany, a Sydney film producer, comes into possession of her ancestor John Bettany's journals, she believes she has finally found the su...

In April 1586, Queen Elizabeth I acquired a new and exotic title. A tribe of North American Indians had made her their weroanza - 'big chief'.The n...

Grossly misrepresented in her ghosted memoirs, Page Three glamour girl Debra Chase determines to set the record straight. Here then is the truth ab...

There are those who say - and Peter Cook himself was among them - that most of his humour was autobiographical. Others - and Peter Cook himself was...

The story of Joan of Arc has always held a special fascination for writers - among them Voltaire, Mark Twain, George Bernard Shaw and Jean Anouilh....

WITH A NEW FOREWORD AND REVISED INTRODUCTION'A superb biography ... full of compassion, perception' Roger Lewis, The Times'I love this book. Dougla...