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In the aftermath of French defeat in July 1940, twenty-year-old Jean Arnaud and his ally, the charming conman Palfy, are hiding out at a brothel in Clermont-Ferrand, having narrowly escaped a firing squad. At a military parade, Jean falls for a beautiful stranger, Claude, who will help him forget...

Tetra Nova tells the story of Lua Mater, an obscure Roman goddess who re-imagines herself as an assassin coming to terms with an emerging performance artist identity in the late-20th century. The operatic text begins in Saigon, where she meets a little girl named Emi, an American of Vietnamese-J...

A fierce, unforgettable novel set in the juvenile prison island of Nisida - for readers of Elena Ferrante and The End of Eddy. Zeno is fifteen years old, a minor by law, but he grew up long ago in the dusty heat of Naples. Winding down cobbled streets on his motorbike, he delivers baggies and pic...

Winner of the 2021 European Union Prize for Literature “Sis, I want to tell you about the river. About me in the river. It makes me shiver, tremble. It makes me laugh. It’s been so long since I’ve felt this alive . . .” Rute is no stranger to displacement and loss. As a child she and her olde...

The Little Book of Chocolate: Cakes and Pastries will teach you the techniques needed to make your own chocolate treats at home. From learning where chocolate comes from to how it is processed, as well as featuring over 15 chocolate cake and pastry recipes such as Chocolate Chip Cookies, Million...

What happens when you fall in love with the wrong person? The consequences threaten to be far-reaching and potentially deadly. Bone Deep is a contemporary novel of sibling rivalry, love, betrayal and murder. This is the story of two women: Mac, who is bent on keeping the secrets of the past from ...

A single phone call from halfway across the world is all it takes to bring her home . . . 'Ellie, something bad has happened.' Desperate to escape her 'kid from the scrapyard' reputation, Ellie Rook has forged a new life for herself abroad, but tragedy strikes when her mother, Imelda, falls from ...

An un-putdownable thriller from the internationally bestselling author of I Will Find You and Fool Me Once. 'Loved it!' Richard Osman 'Another instant Coben Bolitar classic' Michael J Fox 'Coben is a phenomenon' The Times 'Told at breakneck pace, it glows on the page' Daily Mail 'To the aficiona...

Eight authors’ works of personal nonfiction join with ten stories by Karen Tei Yamashita to illuminate the hidden histories of places large and small. Faced with a scant historical record, Karen Tei Yamashita turns to fiction to animate the secrets of Santa Cruz, the city she’s called home for n...

Nurse Florence Shaw is baffled when a quiet patient dies in an apparent suicide pact with her husband. Can she uncover the truth behind this mysterious woman? Richard and Christine Clay have been married for decades. Their relationship has stood the test of time despite Christine appearing passi...

The restoration of a stately home takes a deadly turn in the gripping new Bea Abbot mystery.   No one had been more surprised than Julian to find he was the heir to Marston Hall, a stately home in the Home Counties. His hitherto unknown relatives had done their best to ensure he didn’t live to ...

Simon Westow, the city's unwavering thief-taker, must confront betrayal, history and murder in this gritty page-turner set in nineteenth-century Leeds. Leeds, May 1825. Thief-taker Simon Westow is hired by Sir Robert Foley to find four silver cups stolen by his servant. The cups are a family tre...

Private investigators Lily Raynor and Felix Wilbraham have to hunt down an escapee from a French asylum, in this new, gripping World's End Bureau Victorian mystery from critically-acclaimed author Alys Clare. London, April 1882. When cool-headed Phyllida visits the World's End Investigation Bure...

An eerie Appalachian town. A fatal fire. Three women whose fates intertwine . . . Essa Montgomery and her brother Clyde were brought up in New Hope, a serpent-handling church in Vintera, West Virginia, until the shocking deaths of both their parents closed the church down. Now twenty, reclusive ...

Embezzlement, murder, and beautiful women . . . Andy Roark, Vietnam veteran turned private investigator is on the case in this thrilling hardboiled mystery that’s perfect for fans of Robert B. Parker and Jeremiah Healy. “Fans of Robert B. Parker’s Spenser novels . . . will be eager to see more o...

Will the truth pull them under? A twisty, gripping mystery from a multi-award-winning master of suspense that you won't be able to put down . . . Tabitha Muir returns to her childhood home in the remote hills of Hiskith in Scotland after twenty years away. She's lost her job, her house, and cust...

Incarcerated in a high-security prison, a broken Alexander Blix joins forces with Emma Ramm to find a ruthless killer who has escaped from a German jail and is making his way to Norway. Pulse-pounding Nordic Noir. `Blix suffers a series of vicious assaults in Stigma, the new novel by the stellar ...

A failed writer connects the murder of an American journalist, a drowned 80s musician and a Scottish politician's resignation, in a heart-wrenching novel about ordinary people living in extraordinary times. 'A dazzling, time-hopping patchwork of pop and politics, sewn together with wit and compas...

The Fashion Icons Quote Series is a series of gift books full of inspiring and fabulous quotes from fashion icons across the generations. Words from a Fashion Icon: Coco Chanel is a fully illustrated collection of quotes with Megan's iconic and hugely popular illustrations; this new book profile...

When Valerie, now in her sixties, learns that her Gen Z co-worker, Anna, has effectively been fired for rejecting the boss’s advances, Valerie becomes her champion, and so ensures that justice will prevail. But it brings back traumatic memories of when Valerie herself was the victim of sexual ass...