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'ANDREW MILLER'S WRITING IS A SOURCE OF WONDER AND DELIGHT' Hilary Mantel'ONE OF OUR MOST SKILFUL CHRONICLERS OF THE HUMAN HEART AND MIND' Sunday T...

* SHORTLISTED FOR THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE * * SHORTLISTED FOR THE HIGHLAND BOOK PRIZE *The rapturously acclaimed new novel by the Costa Award-winni...

* WINNER OF THE HIGHLAND BOOK PRIZE ** SHORTLISTED FOR THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE *The rapturously acclaimed new novel by the Costa Award-winning autho...

'ONE OF THE MOST BRILLIANTLY INVENTIVE WRITERS OF THIS, OR ANY, COUNTRY' INDEPENDENTShortlisted for the Booker and James Tait Black Memorial Prizes...

'A charming and clever romance'Irish Times'Tender and spell-binding, Okay Days breaks you all the way open'Annie Lord, author of Notes on Heartbrea...

'ANDREW MILLER'S WRITING IS A SOURCE OF WONDER AND DELIGHT' Hilary Mantel'ONE OF OUR MOST SKILFUL CHRONICLERS OF THE HUMAN HEART AND MIND' Sunday T...

'A sparkling debut...this is a very good plot-driven thriller dressed in a glittery jumpsuit.' GUARDIAN'I couldn't stop turning the pages . . . a d...

'A sparkling debut...this is a very good plot-driven thriller dressed in a glittery jumpsuit.' GUARDIAN'I couldn't stop turning the pages . . . a d...

'Full of delicious layers . . . I felt drunk reading it.' Emma Jane UnsworthIntoxicating, compulsive and blackly funny, Other People's Clothes is t...

'Evocative and intelligent' GuardianDiscover the secret history of our green belts.The first book to tell the story of Britain's green belts, Outsk...

Forgotten edgelands, furious battles, suburban mysteries - discover the secret history of our green belts.Green belts are part of the landscape and...

'ANDREW MILLER'S WRITING IS A SOURCE OF WONDER AND DELIGHT' Hilary Mantel'ONE OF OUR MOST SKILFUL CHRONICLERS OF THE HUMAN HEART AND MIND' Sunday T...

On Saturday 9th September, 1922, the victorious Turkish cavalry rode into Smyrna, the richest and most cosmopolitan city in the Ottoman Empire. Wha...

  , In this deliciously strange debut collection, Leon Craig draws on folklore and gothic horror in refreshingly inventive ways to explore queer id...

'Modern classics: elegantly written and breathtaking in their honesty' Daily ExpressSiân Phillips has a long and celebrated career on both stage a...

'ANDREW MILLER'S WRITING IS A SOURCE OF WONDER AND DELIGHT' Hilary Mantel'ONE OF OUR MOST SKILFUL CHRONICLERS OF THE HUMAN HEART AND MIND' Sunday T...

'Melvyn Bragg has added another formidable chapter to one of the most distinguished literary series of recent times' David Robson, Sunday Telegraph...

An optimistic vision of the future after Covid-19 by a leading professor of globalisation at the University of Oxford.Covid-19 left us at a crossro...

In 1322 Sir John Mandeville left England on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem. Thirty-four years later, he returned, claiming to have visited not only Jeru...

In 1611 an astonishing letter arrived at the East India Trading Company in London after a tortuous seven-year journey. Englishman William Adams was...

***Winner of the Booker Prize***'ONE OF THE WORLD'S GREATEST WRITERS' Spectator'Extraordinary' Graham Greene 'Powerful' The Times 'Marvellous' Sund...

In the early 1990s, at an old-fashioned boarding school, two boys form an intense friendship that will shape the course of their lives. Bruno Jacks...

On the edge of a small town in New South Wales, far from the battlefields of the Second World War, lies a prisoner-of-war camp housing Italian, Kor...

On the edge of a small Australian town, far from the battlefields of the Second World War, a camp holds thousands of Japanese, Italian and Korean p...