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There were three unexpected deaths that summer. After Letitia died, her husband decided to bring in his mother-in-law to help with the baby. None of the likely nannies had proved...

Misha Glenny's acclaimed account of the war in former Yugoslavia contains substantial new material that discusses the end of the five-year conflict and looks ahead to an uneasy future in...

Queen - or, as she would prefer to be remembered King - Hatchepsut was an astonishing woman. Brilliantly defying tradition she became the female embodiment of a male role, dressing...

Images of the Greek goddess Athene tell us something about "the feminine", and so have relevance to our current debates on gender and the nature of women and men. This...

Rudyard Kipling's reputation as Britain's unofficial Poet Laureate has obscured the true nature of his achievement. Far from being an Establishment figure, he was a fiercely independent poet, opposed to...

An autobiography, revealing Nabokov's comfortable childhood and adolescence, of his rich, liberal-minded father, his beautiful mother, army of relations and family hangers-on and of lovely civilized houses in St Petersburg...

From the seed of an actual attempt to blow up the Greenwich Observatory, this book recreates the world of the secret agent. The world of law and order is mirrored...

A striking and joyous new look for the novels of one of the greatest storytellers of our time 'Compulsively readable, realistic, funny, touching' The Times When eighteen-year-old Ian Bedloe pricks...

A delightful and uniquely imaginative tribute to the Bard, incorporating biography, theatrical history, and a vivid recreation of the Elizabethan age. Among Shakespeare's many biographers none brings to his subject...

Allan Quatermain is a Victorian Indiana Jones - he triumphs over deserts, snowy mountains, tribal warfare and witches, and unearths the mythical treasure of King Solomon's mines. Allan Quatermain is...

On they went singing 'Eternal Memory', and whenever they stopped, the sound of their feet, the horses and the gusts of wind seemed to carry on their singing ...Doctor Zhivago...

Florence Nightingale, Gustave Flaubert and the temptations of Egypt In the winter of 1849, Florence Nightingale was an unknown 29-year-old - beautiful, well-born and deeply unhappy. After clashing with her...

With sympathy and care, Trollope observes the romances of two controversial heroines in the first of his Palliser novels 'Anthony Trollope knew more about women than any other novelist of...

Reissued in electric new backlist style, The Facts is Philip Roth's idiosyncratic memoir How does a novelist write about the facts of his life after spending years fictionalising those facts...

'Dumas is a master of ripping yarns full of fearless heroes, poisonous ladies and swashbuckling adventurers.' The Guardian **AS SEEN ON WRITE AROUND THE WORLD WITH RICHARD E GRANT** A...

The first of Jean Plaidy's flamboyant French Revolution series France eagerly awaits the day the young King, Louis XV, comes of age and breaks free from the rule of his...

The brand new Aristotle detective novel In the winter of 330-329 BC Athens itself suffers a series of alarming thefts and home robberies. It seems that nobody is safe. The...

The human female form is the brilliant end-point of millions of years of evolution, loaded with amazing adjustments and subtle refinements. It is the most remarkable organism on the planet....

In the world of rare books, everything has its price. But when the book is a satanic tract, the trading currency is not money, but life... A well-know bibliophile is...

A fresh look at Chaplin from the masterful Peter Ackroyd He was the very first icon of the silver screen, and is one of the most recognisable faces in Hollywood,...

Maugham's brilliantly executed novel of the tensions and triumphs of performance, on stage and off Julia Lambert is in her prime, the greatest actress in England. Off stage, however, she...

A dark and mesmerising story, at once lyrical and terrifying The pogrom that swept through Poland was interpreted as a sign of the Coming of the Lord. In the little...

'He was, he is, the best of critics' Dilys Powell, Guardian Collected Essays contains nearly eighty essays, reviews and occasional pieces composed between novels, plays and travel books over four...

A biography of Goebbels, drawing on dramatic new material released from secret archives in former East Germany.

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the first content creator to interview President Biden, leading progressive voice Brian Tyler Cohen takes a step back from the day-to-day news cycle to...

The fear of playing the fool is a universal psychological phenomenon and an underappreciated driver of human behavior; in the spirit of Malcolm Gladwell's Blink, Dan Ariely's Predictably Irrational, and...

The New York Times bestselling author of SuperLife and cohost with Zac Efron of the hit Netflix series Down to Earth, Darin Olien offers invaluable advice for addressing the health...

The shocking and hilarious novel of dating, sex, and distress in an average American suburb, now a major motion picture directed by Jason Reitman and starring Adam Sandler, Jennifer Garner,...

"Melville at his best invariably wrote from a sort of dream self, so that events which he relates as actual fact have indeed a far deeper reference to his own...

It's THE NEVER BEFORE SEEN BOOK in THE hottest romantasy sensation that EVERYONE is talking about! An instant New York Times bestseller! 'Everything I had hoped for and then some'...

'A mischievous boy hero and an equally amusing ghoul,' Guardian An iconic ghost story for children from Penelope Lively, one of the modern greats of British fiction. Just because you...

An Amazon Best Books of 2026 So Far Pick! Five passengers. Five minutes until the next train ... five minutes until someone dies. 'Will have you glued to the page...

Blue Peter Award winning author David Long takes readers on a captivating exploration into the culture and legacy of ancient Greek civilisation. Around 3,000 years ago, the ancient Greeks created...

'Simply the most consistently inventive, brilliant, curious and creative writer going' GILLIAN FLYNN 'Gripping ... Bravura storytelling' VOGUE 'A blood-soaked, gothic nightmare' FINANCIAL TIMES From one of our most accomplished...

**The gripping, new, edge-of-your-seat crime thriller from the bestselling author of the smash-hit novel The Serial Killer's Wife, now a major TV series** ----------- ' Superbly written. Chillingly compulsive.' Jane...

'Let us now praise Ray Bradbury' THE TIMES Bradbury's first story collection is a must-read for any fan of the genre, spinning stardust and cobwebs in its wondrous wake. It...

'A gripping story of family betrayal, full of passion and anger ... moving and memorable' Rose Tremain 'Harrowing, poignant and ambitious ... a definite for book clubs' Nina Bhadreshwar What...

Do you want to feel happier, healthier, and younger? From impaired brain function to poor skin, weakened immunity to premature aging, your gut health affects more than just your digestive...

The Sunday Times Bestseller A new, fully updated narrative edition of David Attenborough's seminal biography of our world, The Living Planet . Nowhere on our planet is devoid of life....