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In the late 80s, Katherine Carlyle is created using IVF. Stored as a frozen embryo for eight years, she is then implanted in her mother and given life. By the age of nineteen Katherine has lost her mother to cancer, and feels her father to be an...

This volume tells the story of Christianity through the individual men and women who shaped it. It is a story of colossal undertakings and spectacular successes as well as ferocious intolerance, greed and bloodshed. Bamber Gascoigne traces a clear...

Doctor Dolittle isn't a normal doctor . . . He doesn't treat humans - he treats animals instead! He loves animals so much that his busy house in Puddleby-on-the-Marsh is full of every creature imaginable - from parrots to pigs, monkeys to dogs and many...

'That politics was the most exciting of all the exciting things in the world I never doubted'Shirley Williams was born to politics. As well as being influenced by her mother, Vera Brittan, her father George Catlin, a leading political scientist,...

'An espionage master' Charles CummingFormer spy Robert Harland returns in this nailbiting thriller set in the aftermath of 9/11The head of the US National Security Agency is assassinated in spectacular fashion at Heathrow.An airport employee and his...

'A fine new voice' - Daily Mail'Edgy and ice-cool' - Marnie RichesFor readers who loved The Girl with the Dragon TattooThe body count is rising...and the clock is ticking.When a young woman is attacked and left fighting to survive in hospital, the police...

'Riveting, thought-provoking, and impeccably written. I loved it' Carol Mason'This twisty tale explores the dark side of friendship and is just asking to be demolished in the back garden with a chilled glass of rose' Heat Magazine 'A real page turner'...

It takes a lot to get under the skin of Cornelius 'Fatty O'Leary, but then there is a lot of skin to get under. The heroically proportioned Fatty can normally take life as it comes. Right at home in easy-going Fayetteville, Arkansas, he is happily...

Amelia has a dream: toasting chestnuts by the fire with her husband Jack in their own cosy cottage. Their real life is another world - a cramped one-bedroom flat in Hackney. But when life takes a surprising turn, removal vans are soon heading to the Kent...

Passion and poetry: two love stories intertwine - a true historical one and an imagined contemporary one, both intimately connected with Emily Dickinson's life.In 1881 a young married couple, Mabel and David Todd, arrive in stuffy Amherst, Massachusetts...

Small but very determined, Sophie is everyone's favourite farmer-to-be!From the beloved author of Babe comes the last of six stories about Dick King-Smith's most adored (human!) character, the inimitable Sophie, re-imagined twenty years later by the...

1935: Harry Jardine is a soldier of fortune. Forced to flee Hamburg after helping Jews escape Nazi Germany, he is recruited by a secretive British committee to smuggle guns from Rumania into Abyssinia, under threat of Italian invasion. Taken to the Horn...

'There are other places, Philippa. Other dreams and mirrors.' 15-year-olds Philippa and Danny have been best friends for years, but things are starting to change between them. Danny has a new set of friends - the rugby boys - and suddenly whispers of...

'This Emma-inspired friends-to-lovers romance has it all' Nisha SharmaJane Austen's Emma goes Bollywood in this delightful retelling, perfect for fans of Abby Jimenez and Jasmine Guillory. Kamila's life might not be perfect, but, whew, it's close. She...

Teach computing concepts without computers! How to Raise a Tech Genius makes the computing curriculum accessible for parents and families.We live in a digital world - one in which our children are surrounded by technology. It's a part of their lives in a...

'Charlie Higson's thrillers are major events' Mark Billingham'Funny, very tough and full of action' Patricia Highsmith 'Uncoils with wit and imagination' Time OutIt seemed straightforward enough. Sean had now consumed so much alcohol that everything...

From the team behind the journal, DOG: An Owners' Guide is a fun, frivolous exploration of dog-owning for the modern-day. Stories from some of the world's most famous dog owners like fashion designer Dries Van Noten, actor Russell Tovey,...

Virago Press and the Asham Award, the foremost prize for stories by women, present a collection of tales to send you to places you've never been before . . . Here are tales of people who travel far and those who stay at home and dream; of strange things...

'A cracking good read' Jessie Keane 'Well into Martina Cole territory' Independent'Great writing, gripping story, loved it' Mandasue Heller__________________Lolly Bruce spent several years in the lap of luxury, but now she's back in a world she knows:...

The first book in Bernard Cornwell's bestselling GRAIL QUEST series, in a bright and bold repackage. The year is 1342. The English, led by Edward III, are laying waste to the French countryside. The army may be led by the King, but it is the...

In 1985 police bombed a West Philadelphia row house. Eleven people died and a fire started that destroyed sixty other houses. John Edgar Wideman brings these events and their repercussions to shocking life in this seminal novel.At the heart of...

Ethelred Tressider, mid-list crime writer, is surprised when fellow author Henry Holiday unexpectedly turns up on his doorstep. He's even more surprised when Henry confesses that he may have committed murder while drunk on New Year's Eve. Though he has...

A heart-warming and passionate tale from the author of Tommy Glover's Sketch of HeavenAt the age of five I ran into a wood, and nearly two years later I walked out of it and into the nearest house.In 1927, Gracie returns to her house to find a young girl...

I felt the worlds of ocean and ice were meeting in a frontier of rage, as if the Earth had torn in two along this line.This was a place if there ever was a place, where you could disappear.The year is 1845 and young researcher Eliot Saxby is paid to go...

The world is getting harder for young people, and for the people who care about them: parents, teachers, school counsellors and concerned relatives. Generation Next is an organisation that gathers experts in several fields to provide information for...

Are you the next million dollar woman? Women run an increasing number of businesses, but female entrepreneurs still tend to think small, and their companies rarely reach the heights of those of their male counterparts. Most are stuck running...

'Atkins's Quinn Colson series is, quite simply, the best in crime fiction today - and also so much more . . . unforgettable' Megan Abbott The Pritchards had never been worth a damn - an evil, greedy family who made their living dealing drugs and...

6 July 2005. Great Britain has just been announced as the next host of the Olympics. The euphoric crowds pour forth from Trafalgar Square into the waiting bars and restaurants of Soho. Dreams, drugs, debauchery . . . Soho is London's red light district,...

Kate Parker has had so much bad luck in her life, she's convinced she's cursed. But when she tries to do her best to keep herself and her son safe, people tell her she's being anxious and obsessive. Just when her life starts to spin completely out of...

Bruce Forsyth's career spanned an astonishing eight decades - from the old music halls to primetime television on a Saturday night. This is the story of one of Britain's greatest national treasures and a true showman, whose type we'll never see again. ...

A stunningly original nightmare novel about the impact of a new synthetic drug - Lingo - on the depressed New England factory town of Quinsigamond, where it was secretly developed. Besides offering a potent high, Lingo also delivers a shot to the brain...

'One of our most consistently brilliant, bold and funny writers' Dave Eggers'His writing is liberal in every good sense of the word' Jonathan FranzenA spellbinding thriller. A spy novel. A love story . . . Prisoner Z, held at a black site in the Negev...

When seventeen-year-old Stella Whittaker is offered the chance to study at the Academy of Music in Vienna it's a dream-come-true, made possible by old family friends, Rainer and Marthe Kraus, who offer her a place to live.Seduced by the elegant beauty of...

She is their youngest, sweetest sister, yet she is fated to become their strongest leader . . . The Coritani are a matriarchal line of great power, blessed with three princesses to carry the royal bloodline forward. Confident, fiery Goneril; fierce,...

'MESMERIC, TERRIFYING AND WONDERFUL' M. R. Carey, author of The Girl With All the Gifts'I was cursed in Natal, in 1884. Cursed by truth and by blood. The shadow took to me, and we have been together since.'From the bestselling and award-winning author of...

From the author of Nothing But Blue Sky, longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction, 2021Nine Lives.Four Generations.One Family.The MacEntees are no ordinary family. Determined to be different to other people, they have carved out a place for...

No more running, no more hiding - it's time to fight back.The Blake family can only live in security if the truth about the conspiracy threatening their lives is brought into the full light of day.As the stakes are raised higher than ever before, James...

This fascinating photographic collection represents a journey both through time and also along the byways of a truly scenic part of rural England. Edwardian photographers' lenses enable us to glimpse celebrations such as Empire Day, we revisit tranquil...

The Kremlin does not forget. Six years ago, high-ranking Russian foreign intelligence officer Nikolai Volkov fled the country, accused of selling state secrets to MI6. Defecting to the UK, Volkov went into hiding. The Kremlin does not forgive. Nine weeks...

A little dedication goes a long way.That's why Catriona Robinson, the country's favourite children's author, always dedicated her books to those who touched her life the most - not least Emily, her reclusive granddaughter.Emily never thought too much...