European History

THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER AND BBC RADIO 4 BOOK AT BEDTIME PICK 'Sheer joy' Graham Norton, author of Home Stretch 'Utterly beautiful ... filled with hope' Joanna Cannon, author...

Set in a grand hotel as Milan shuts down in early 2020, this is a classic story of a man's emotional reckoning and the unexpected kindness of strangers From the...

The charioteer in his purest form. The supreme master of destiny and the elements. A man who made a circus out of life, and life out of a circus. 'A.D....

An exhilarating, gripping new psychological thriller from the author behind the record-breaking, multimillion-copy bestseller, The Silent Patient This is a tale of murder. Or maybe that's not quite true. At...

'A powerful story, beautifully told' M.L. STEDMAN 'Truly compelling' WILLIAM BOYD 'Exquisitely written and deeply human' CHRIS CLEAVE 'Far-reaching, but also intimate and intensely personal' FLORENCE KNAPP 'Alluring in its...

'A powerful story, beautifully told' M.L. STEDMAN 'Truly compelling' WILLIAM BOYD 'Exquisitely written and deeply human' CHRIS CLEAVE 'Far-reaching, but also intimate and intensely personal' FLORENCE KNAPP 'Alluring in its...

'A powerful story, beautifully told' M.L. STEDMAN 'Truly compelling' WILLIAM BOYD 'Exquisitely written and deeply human' CHRIS CLEAVE 'Far-reaching, but also intimate and intensely personal' FLORENCE KNAPP 'Alluring in its...

Alone in an ethnographic museum in Paris, Gabriela Wiener is confronted with her unusual inheritance. She is visiting an exhibition of pre-Columbian artefacts, the spoils of European colonial plunder, many...

'A tantalising mystery, executed with perfection.' - THOMAS ENGER He was locked inside an abandoned house. But he's not the only one . . . When a dead man is...

Papa whispered to Chana, ' If we get separated, if something happens to me, look after Mama and Aron. And one last thing- ' He smoothed an affectionate hand over...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE PETRONA AWARD 2025, CELEBRATING THE BEST SCANDINAVIAN CRIME NOVELS OF THE YEAR From the internationally bestselling author of Quicksand , a brilliant, gut-wrenching story of childhood friends...

The international sensation about two young Italian boys from different backgrounds who meet in the mountains every summer, and the men they grow to become 'Could Cognetti be the new...

'Darkly glamorous. Your summer read is sorted' Sunday Times Style 'Glamorous, exuberant and propulsive' Daisy Buchanan ' Mad Men meets White Lotus ' Red 'Stylish and twisting' The Times 'A...

The charming and original story of a small, declining community's struggle to survive in the shadow of an all-consuming metropolis, from from the multi-million copy bestselling author of The Hundred-Year-Old...

'I urge you to read Bad Habit' PEDRO ALMODOVAR 'Had me hooked from the first page ... Savour every word' DUA LIPA 'The book that everyone is reading' NEW YORK...

The charming and original story of a small, declining community's struggle to survive in the shadow of an all-consuming metropolis, from from the multi-million copy bestselling author of The Hundred-Year-Old...

The new sun-drenched summer read from the bestselling author and TV presenter 'Soak up the glamour' PRIMA You're invited to the most glamorous wedding of the year... The guests are...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE 2019 Set in a sun-drenched Sicily, among the decadent Italian aristocracy of the late 1950s, Steven Price's Lampedusa explores the final years of Giuseppe...

A private meeting, chance encounters and a mysterious tour of Lisbon, in this brilliant homage to Tabucchi's country, culture and people In the city of Lisbon, Requiem's narrator has an...

The charioteer in his purest form. The supreme master of destiny and the elements. A man who made a circus out of life, and life out of a circus. 'A.D....

SHORTLISTED FOR THE PETRONA AWARD 2025, CELEBRATING THE BEST SCANDINAVIAN CRIME NOVELS OF THE YEAR From the internationally bestselling author of Quicksand , a brilliant, gut-wrenching story of childhood friends...

A feminist cult classic about love, independence and what it means to be an individual, translated into English for the first time 'I want to have him, I really do....

The fashion industry is killing the planet but I really need that new designer handbag...Her daughter is divorcing and she's going to die because of it... The mother must be...

From the internationally bestselling author of Quicksand , a brilliant, gut-wrenching story of childhood friends torn apart by gang violence and class differences. Dogge is from affluent Roennviken in Stockholm....

'Compelling and fine and rich, I devoured it' TESSA HADLEY 'Powerfully compelling' GUARDIAN 'Unbelievably good' ELIZABETH DAY 'Complex and nuanced... the perfect definition of summer reading' LUCY CALDWELL 'Subtle, complex,...

Two women. An extraordinary power. An explosive bond. In a time of revolution, their fates will lie in the turn of a card . . . It is the early...

Introducing the Collins Modern Classics, a series featuring some of the most significant books of recent times, books that shed light on the human experience - classics which will endure...

A gripping thriller based on true story of an Irish priest in the Vatican who smuggled victims of the Nazis out of Italy under the nose of his SS officer...

A young woman is put on trial. She has accused her painting teacher of the darkest betrayal - he accuses her of being a immoral liar. What really happened? Rome...

'Highly recommend for your summer reading' Reader Review Can one house hold a lifetime of secrets? Corfu, 1930 The moment Thirza Caruthers sets foot on Corfu, memories flood back: the...

Escape to paradise with this cute, forced proximity rom-com - the perfect beach read 'A simply gorgeous slow-burning love story'. Natasha Harding, Sun A totally gorgeous and escapist romcom that...

Get ready for the biggest paperback thriller of the year- the new runaway bestseller from the record-breaking, multimillion-copy bestselling author of The Silent Patient This is a tale of murder....

' Beautiful ...Tessa Harris has made me appreciate historical novels in a way that I haven't in quite some time' 'Oh my goodness...this book was so unputdownable ...will never be...

FYRE FESTIVAL meets ONE OF THE GIRLS in this psychological thriller with twists you'll never see coming. 'It's the hottest ticket in town. But once you're in, there's no getting...

FYRE FESTIVAL meets ONE OF THE GIRLS in this psychological thriller with twists you'll never see coming. 'It's the hottest ticket in town. But once you're in, there's no getting...

THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER AND BBC RADIO 4 BOOK AT BEDTIME PICK 'Sheer joy' Graham Norton, author of Home Stretch 'Utterly beautiful ... filled with hope' Joanna Cannon, author...

'I urge you to read Bad Habit' PEDRO ALMODOVAR 'Had me hooked from the first page ... Savour every word' DUA LIPA 'The book that everyone is reading' NEW YORK...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books 'My dear friend, he said, life is strange and strange things happen in life' It is a hot July Sunday in...

Set against the wild backdrop of an intense heatwave in Europe, this is a story about sibling relationships - what holds a family together and what might fracture it forever....

'Moved me to tears' Angela Petch bestselling author of The Tuscan Secret In 1944 in war-torn Dubrovnik Branko Milisic holds his newborn daughter Safranka and wishes her a better future....

FROM INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR ANIKA SCOTT Madame Mystique is a performer extraordinaire, come to work her scandalous magic at the glittering 1933 Chicago World's Fair. Of African American and Sicilian...

* SHARPE'S COMMAND , the brand new novel in the global bestselling series, is available to pre-order now* Spain, December 1812 In a deathly cold winter on the Spanish-Portuguese border,...

'Moved me to tears' Angela Petch bestselling author of The Tuscan Secret In 1944 in war-torn Dubrovnik Branko Milisic holds his newborn daughter Safranka and wishes her a better future....

From the New York Times bestselling author of Black Cake comes a stunningly beautiful tale about love, family and seeking a new life in the aftermath of tragedy Ebby Freeman's...

A brilliant reinvention of the detective novel, set in Renaissance Florence and packed with art, scandal, murder and scheming - from the author of the international bestseller HHhH. Florence, New...

An exhilarating, gripping new psychological thriller from the author behind the record-breaking, multimillion-copy bestseller, The Silent Patient This is a tale of murder. Or maybe that's not quite true. At...

Get ready for the biggest paperback thriller of the year- the new runaway bestseller from the record-breaking, multimillion-copy bestselling author of The Silent Patient This is a tale of murder....

A sumptuous historical novel, set against the backdrop of World War I, from 'an enormous talent' (Zadie Smith) 'A sublime reading experience- delicate, restrained, surpassingly intelligent, uncommonly poised and truly...