Aiden Aslin is a British-born resident of Ukraine. Living in Mykolaiv with his fiancé, he joined the Ukrainian marines in 2018 and was called to the frontline ahead of the Russian invasion in February 2022. He was one of over a thousand soldiers who surrendered after the month-long siege at the Mariupol steelworks, whereupon he was singled out for his British passport. His surrender, captivity, treatment and subsequent release received global media attention.

Aiden Aslin

Aiko Bethea is the founder of RARE Coaching &amp; Consulting, a leadership development company that helps aspiring leaders successfully navigate the workplace with more impactful approaches to leadership. She has worked with Fortune 100 companies, research &amp; academic institutes, and global non-profit organisations. Bethea is also Senior Leadership Consultant for the Brené Brown Education &amp; Research Group and was named by Forbes as a leading anti-racism educator. Bethea was a contributing writer in the New York Times bestselling anthology You Are Your Best Thing (2021). Anchored, Aligned, Accountable is her first book.

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Ailie Busby

Ailsa McFarlane was born in 1997 in Seattle, Washington, and grew up in Snowdonia in the United Kingdom. After leaving school, she studied veterinary science before dropping out to travel the United States and Europe by road. Highway Blue is her first novel.

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Aimee Bender is the author of the novels The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake, a New York Times bestseller, and An Invisible Sign of My Own; and of the collections The Girl in the Flammable Skirt, Willful Creatures and The Color Master. Her work has been widely anthologised and has been translated into sixteen languages. She lives in Los Angeles.

Aimee Bender

Aimé Césaire (1913-2008) was a Martinican poet and politician who played a leading role in the struggle to liberate the French colonies of Africa and the Caribbean. Renowned for co-founding the Négritude movement, Césaire was a pioneer in surrealist poetry. His achievements as a writer were recognised worldwide with awards including the International Nâzim Hikmet Poetry Award, the Laporte Prize, the Viareggio-Versilia Prize for Literature, and the Grand Prix National de Poésie; in 2002, he was made Commander of the Order of Merit of Cote d'Ivoire. His works include the plays A Tempest (1969) and A Season in the Congo (1966), the searing political essay Discourse on Colonialism (1956), and the long poem Return to My Native Land (1950), dubbed "nothing less than the greatest lyrical monument of this time" (Andre Breton).

Aimé Césaire

Aingeala Flannery

Aingelda Ardizzone

Ainsley Harriott is nothing short of a cookery legend; a pioneer in quick and easy home cooking, he has hosted some of the UK's most popular culinary series. His love of food and people, together with his natural curiosity and accessible recipes, make him a much-loved British TV personality. Recent popular ITV shows include Ainsley's Caribbean Kitchen, Ainsley Mediterranean Cookbook, Ainsley's Food We Love and now Ainsley's Good Mood Food.

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Aishling Morgan

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Aislinn Hunter is the author of a novel, Stay; a collection of stories, What's Left Us; and two collections of poetry, Into the Early Hours and The Possible Past. The World Before Us is her first book of fiction in twelve years. After travelling to London and Edinburgh over the past few years to study for a PhD, Aislinn Hunter now lives and teaches in Vancouver, British Columbia.

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Aiste Gazdar

Ajahn Sumedho

Ajay Chowdhury, the inaugural winner of the Harvill Secker-Bloody Scotland prize, is a tech entrepreneur and theatre director. His children’s book – Ayesha and the Firefish, was published in 2016 and adapted into a musical which premiered in San Francisco. 
 
 
The Waiter (Sunday Times Crime Book of the Month), was published in 2021, and is the first in his critically-acclaimed crime series about Detective Kamil Rahman, an ex-policeman from Kolkata who has moved to Brick Lane in London. It is being adapted for television by Moonage Pictures.The Cook (Guardian Top Crime Books of the Year) was published in May 2022 to excellent reviews and deals with the issue of homelessness. The third book in the series – The Detective (Sunday Times Top Crime Books of the Year) – is about government surveillance and AI. The Spy (Longlisted Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing), the fourth book, sees Kamil infiltrate a terrorist cell. The Shadow (A Sunday Times Crime Book of the Month) is the latest book in the series.

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Ajaz Ahmed is the CEO of AKQA, the ideas and innovation company he founded aged 21. AKQA today employs over 1,500 people in 15 offices around the world. In 2014 AKQA won the Queen’s Award for Enterprise Innovation. Ajaz co-authored Velocity: The Seven New Laws for a World Gone Digital. For essays and thoughts visit http://www.akqa.com/ajaz.

Ajaz Ahmed

Akasha Moon is a professional Tarot reader, medium and vocational healer. Under her other pen name Kala Trobe, she has published Invoke the Goddess and Invoke the Gods with Llewellyn. She's passionate about her subject and believes that, although it can bring about some serious benefits, magic can be a lot of fun.

Akasha Moon

Akiyuki Nosaka (1930-2015) was a novelist, singer, lyricist and former member of the House of Councillors in Japan. Born in Kamakura, Kanagawa, his memories of living through the Second World War – including the loss of his adoptive father in the 1945 Kobe bombings – served as the inspiration for his most famous short stories. In 1967, he won the Naoki Prize for Grave of the Fireflies and American Hijiki, both based on the Japanese experience of the War. Nosaka also wrote erotic fiction, including The Pornographers (1963), and in later life he continued his career as a newspaper and TV journalist, as well as a politician and chanson singer.

Akiyuki Nosaka

Dr Akong Tulku Rinpoche was an experienced meditation master of the Karma Kagyu tradition of Tibetan Buddhism. He was co-founder of the Samye Ling Tibetan Centre and supervised many other centres in Europe, Africa and Asia. He formed several humanitarian organisations for the aid of refugees, the distressed and the poor and was advisor to a large number of people, including therapists in the UK and Europe. He died in 2013.

Akong Tulku Rinpoche

Akshi Singh is an associate editor at Parapraxis and deputy editor at Critical Quarterly, and is the editor of a special collection of Critical Quarterly presenting new writing on Marion Milner. She collaborates regularly with the Derek Jarman lab, and writes for the London Review of Books. Singh moved to the UK from India to study for a PhD in psychoanalysis and literature with Jacqueline Rose. She is currently training to be a psychoanalyst at the Centre for Freudian Analysis and Research.

Akshi Singh

Al Ewing

Al Franken

Al Gore

Al Holloway

Al Murray's alter ego, The Pub Landlord, is one of the most recognizable and successful comic creations of the past twenty years, and Murray, who has won numerous awards and accolades, continues to fill arenas and theatres around the world. 
 
He is also the author of many successful books including Watching War Films with My Dad and Command, a sharply entertaining analysis of the key allied military leaders in the Second World War. He is well known for co-hosting the hugely popular Second World War history podcast, We Have Ways of Making You Talk with fellow bestselling military author James Holland. 
 
Arnhem: Black Tuesday is his first history book about a single campaign.

Al Murray

Al Murray is a Perrier Award-winning comic, TV personality and, as 'The Pub Landlord', the author of the bestselling The Pub Landlord's Book of British Common Sense and Think Yourself British. Most recently, he has taken on the leadership of the Free United Kingdom Party (FUKP).

Actor and director Al Pacino is a unique and enduring figure in the world of American stage and film. He grew up in New York City’s South Bronx, attended the School of Performing Art, and studied acting at the Herbert Berghof Studio with Charles Laughton and the Actors Studio with mentor Lee Strasberg. 
 
 
He has been nominated for the Academy Award nine times, for movies including The Godfather, Dog Day Afternoon, Serpico, The Godfather Part II, and The Irishman, and won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1992 for Scent of a Woman. He has been nominated for the Golden Globe Award nineteen times, and won four, and has been nominated for three Tonys and won two. 
 
 
Pacino has been awarded the Kennedy Center Honor, the American Film Institute Life Achievement Award, the National Merit of Arts from President Obama, and the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award for Lifetime Achievement in Motion Pictures.

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Gareth Creer

Artie lives in Slipp - a tawdry, urban setting, a mixture of big estates and what's left of the old town. When his father died, he inherited the family fishmongers on the High Street. He could have hauled himself out of Slipp, gone to college, were it not for looking after his mum. Artie is a good-looking guy. He's married to the gorgeous, middle-class, university-educated Madelaine, who he's known since school. She is confident and independent and works in the theatre. 
 
There are two big estates in Slipp at war with each other, and tensions rise as Artie gets caught up in a ugly brawl in a pub leaves the brother of one of Slipp's hard men maimed, setting off a grim and threatening chain of events. 
 
Artie's main obsession of late is that his wife is having an affair. For some time he has been collecting evidence to trap her. He rifles her handbag, looking for telephone numbers, unfamiliar names, he inspects her underwear for signs of illicit sex, and tries to second-guess what she might be doing to cover her tracks. Gradually a picture of his paranoia begins to emerge, but equally Madelaine's behaviour is questionable. 
 
When Artie becomes convinced that Madelaine's affair is with the local property developer, who wants Artie out of the shop, he takes matters into his own hands and as the tension of these two parallel obsessions tightens, Artie brings about his own, dramatic resolutions. 
 
'Shocking and grimly funny... This is a book soaked in disquieting atmosphere and threaded with thrillerish tension. It is erotic; brutal in its portrayal of urban squalor and poverty; sparky and pacey. A sharp novel with a vivid contemporary feel' Lesley Glaister

Skin And Bone

Charlotte Bingham

Fans of Louise Douglas, Dinah Jeffries and Kristin Hannah will love this compelling and enthralling read from bestselling author Charlotte Bingham. The 1950s are brought vividly to life - as is the real battle between desire and duty that Ottilie faces. A real page-turner! 
 
'The author perfectly evokes the atmosphere of a bygone era... ' -- Woman's Own 
'This is great summer escapism from an award-winning romantic novelist' -- CHOICE 
'I couldn't put it down' -- ***** Reader review 
'Absolutely riveting' -- ***** Reader review 
'A wonderful read' -- ***** Reader review 
 
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SOME THINGS NEED SAVING...BUT AT WHAT COST? 
 
Ottilie Cartaret is born in London into a family of boys dominated by their genial mother, Ma O'Flaherty. For the first four years of her life, all Ottilie knows is love until, that is, the erring father of the boys, sends enough money from America for the O'Flahertys to move to what Ma imagines will be rural bliss in Cornwall. 
 
True, St Elcomb is by the sea and in 1950s Britain is certainly rural but, for the O'Flahertys, it is not bliss. Never mind their poverty - the enmity of the local people is what proves insuperable. 
 
Ottilie is ultimately adopted by Mr and Mrs Cartaret, a wealthy couple who run the Grand Hotel in St Elcomb. Here she becomes pampered and spoilt, not just by her adopted parents but by all the visitors to the hotel. Times however are changing and not just for Ottilie but for the hotel too, and as the regulars to the now decaying hotel die off, the Cartarets find they are unable to adapt to modern ways. 
 
There is no doubt that Ottilie is their greatest asset and they live to rejoice in the day they adopted but is Ottilie perhaps expected to sacrifice too much herself to save the Grand?

Grand Affair

the captivating story of one young woman's struggle to overcome the obstacles of her past, and face the future…

Love Song, by million copy and Sunday Times bestselling author Charlotte Bingham, is a captivating and compelling novel about love and family relationships, appearances and expectations. Fans of Louise Douglas, Dinah Jefferies and Kristin Hannah will not be disappointed. 
 
'A perfect example of darker romantic fiction...a true, 24-carat love story' - The Daily Telegraph 
'I couldn't wait to go to bed each night to continue reading the story'-- ***** Reader review 
'Comfortable and stylish' -- ***** Reader review 
'Just wonderful!' -- ***** Reader review 
'I found I couldn't put it down... FANTASTIC!!' -- ***** Reader review 
 
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WHAT IS A FORTUNE WORTH? 
 
The Merriott sisters are born into a comfortable middle-class life and their house is full of fun and laughter. But then Letty, the fourth girl, arrives and tensions suddenly appear in the once happy home. For unbeknownst to the sisters, much depended on the new baby being born a boy - not least the happiness of their parents' marriage. 
 
Letty has a beautiful face but a withered arm and while the girls and their mother can accept and love her as their own, her father's resentment of her is tantamount to dislike. 
 
 It is only when Aunt Rosabel, their mother's great-aunt, arrives for Christmas that all their fortunes change. Within months the Merriotts find themselves living in a great house, Merrylands in Wiltshire, with the promise of everything they, but most of all their father, have ever wanted. 
 
Unfortunately, Aunt Rosabel is not what she seems and before long the family find themselves worse off than they have ever been...

Love Song

an unmissable and unforgettable novel of family love from bestselling author Charlotte Bingham

Fans of Louise Douglas and Dinah Jeffries will love this wonderfully evocative and enthralling romantic saga by the million copy and Sunday Times bestselling author Charlotte Bingham. 
 
"Fabulous reading" -- ***** Reader review 
"Wonderfully clever and witty" -- ***** Reader review 
"Very enjoyable and hard to put down" -- ***** Reader review 
"Incredibly well written and engrossing" -- ***** Reader review 
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SHE'LL PLAY ANY PART TO GET WHAT SHE WANTS 
 
Elizabeth Laurence is astoundingly beautiful. A star from the first minute she appears on celluloid, her future is certain, until she is cast opposite Jerome Didier in a hit play. As staggeringly handsome as she is beautiful - and tipped to become the leading actor of his generation - Jerome would appear to be made for Elizabeth. 
 
But Jerome has fallen in love with the tousle-haired and carefree Pippa Nicholls, who is neither conventionally beautiful nor an actress and, much to Elizabeth's fury, he marries her. 
They are set to live happily ever after - until the playwright Oscar Greene creates a part for Elizabeth which she intuitively recognizes is based on the character of Pippa, and Jerome is tragically deceived by the duplicity of his art...

Stardust

a delightfully unputdownable post war romantic novel full of drama from bestselling author Charlotte Bingham

Exciting and dramatic but tender and heartfelt; this is a novel that you will return to again and again. From the million copy and Sunday Times bestselling author Charlotte Bingham, for fans of Louise Douglas and Dinah Jefferies. 
 
 'A novel rich in dramatic surprises... will have you frantically turning the pages.' - DAILY MAIL 
 
'One of Britain's most bankable novelists.' - THE DAILY EXPRESS 
 
'I laughed and cried at this tale, could visualise the characters, scenery and the story' - ***** Reader Review 
 
'Great book, grabs you on the first page' - ***** Reader Review 
 
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A DARING DECISION COULD COST HER EVERYTHING... 
 
When Cassie Rosse becomes the first woman to train an English Derby winner with her horse, The Nightingale, she has every right to believe that success is hers at last. 
 
But life will never be simple for Cassie Rosse, not just because she is unable to move out from the long shadows cast by the early death of her husband, Tyrone, nor because she has an indomitable will to win in the man's world of racing, but because she has integrity. 
 
Against all advice, therefore, she decides to keep The Nightingale in training and race him as a four-year-old, a decision that triggers a set of circumstances which quickly turn her brilliant triumph into a nightmare...

The Nightingale Sings

an uplifting and moving tale of a special bond from bestselling author Charlotte Bingham

Ildefonso Falcones

Snared between two cultures and two loves, one man is forced to choose... 
 
1564, the Kingdom of Granada. After years of Christian oppression, the Moors take arms and daub the white houses of Sierra Nevada with the blood of their victims. 
 
Amidst the conflict is young Hernando, the son of an Arab woman and the Christian priest who raped her. He is despised and regularly beaten by his own step-father for his 'tainted' heritage. 
Fuelled with the love of the beautiful Fatima, Hernando hatches a plan to unite the two warring faiths - and the two halves of his identity...

The Hand of Fatima

Priya Basil

It's a hot, crowded train. Helen Summers is on her way to see her sister Jill to tell her an awful secret. Another passenger, Kerm, is on his way back from his grandfather's funeral. 
 
They are strangers, jammed against each other in a crowded carriage. Noisy school kids fill the train - and three of them are about to cause a whole heap of trouble. In the chaos, Helen and Kerm are thrown together in a way they never expected. 
 
Catching a train? Read Strangers on the 16:02 and you'll never feel the same way about your fellow passengers again.

Strangers on the 16:02

Powerful and heart-wrenching; fans of Louise Douglas, Dinah Jefferies and Kristin Hannah will love this Edwardian saga by the million copy and Sunday Times bestselling author Charlotte Bingham. 
 
"Charlotte Bingham's spellbinding novel is required reading" - COSMOPOLITAN 
 
"Excellent stuff" -- COMPANY 
 
"What a wonderful book-- I am feeling totally wrung out with emotion and I didn't want it to ever end." -- ***** Reader review 
"Such an enchanting story...Nanny is a rich and memorable character you will carry in your memory once you finish the last page." -- ***** Reader review 
"I have read most of Charlotte Bingham books and am never disappointed." -- ***** Reader review 
 
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FROM MASTERLESS TO MISTRESS OF THE HOUSE. BUT CAN IT LAST? 
 
1907: Beautiful and spirited, Grace Merrill seems to stand with the world at her feet until a family tragedy obliges Grace to enter a life in service at Keston Hall. It is a world of sadistic housekeepers, drunken butlers and genuine hardship and drudgery for those employed in servicing the few. 
 
However, she soon discovers that she has another talent when she manages to escape from the kitchen to work as the family nanny. Here she learns to love Lady Lydiard's children as her own and revel in the isolated world of the nursery. 
 
As time passes, war looms and change reaches out to touch the Hall, Grace grows to become not just the touchstone of the children's lives but in essence the mistress of the house itself. 
 
Amidst all this, she has met the love of her life: Brake Merrowby. But is he the right man to give her the personal fulfilment she craves?

Nanny

a masterful depiction of one woman's determination, passion and sacrifice as told by bestselling author Charlotte Bingham

Brinda Charry

In a small town in South India, beneath the brutal summer sun, a young girl watches anxiously as tensions simmer, then boil over... 
Her parents away on business, eleven-year-old Nithya spends six sultry months in Tamil Nadu with her unmarried uncle and widowed aunt. Battling sheer boredom, stupefying heat and nosy neighbours, she befriends the family's pretty servant, Sudha. Tagging along to milk the buffalo and gather vegetables, Nithya learns the rhythm of the older girl's life - and the secret that threatens it. When Sudha hangs herself in her bedroom, the surrounding brahmin community seethes with fascination, and Nithya learns more about her uncle and her aunt that she wanted to know. 
As she tells Sudha's story in an exquisitely rendered voice, Nithya emerges as an extraordinary girl in her own right.

The Hottest Day Of The Year

Elizabeth McGregor

Jo Harper, a successful young journalist, has only her adored two-year-old son, Sam, to remind her of her late partner. When Sam falls ill, there is only one slim hope - that his stepbrother John may hold the key to his survival. But John has disappeared. Seeking absolution for his part in the accidental death of his marine archeologist father and tortured by their failed relationship, John has set out alone against impossible odds to fulfil his father's dream - to uncover the last traces of the Franklin expedition, which vanished in the Arctic in 1847 while searching for the North West Passage. 
As uncanny parallels begin to unfold between the last days of the Franklin crew and the crisis facing Sam, Jo is plunged into a desparate race against time to save both the life of her son and the soul of her stepson. 
Beautifully written and deeply moving, THE ICE CHILD is storytelling at its very best.

The Ice Child

Diana Appleyard

Sara never doubted her husband, the successful, handsome Matt. Then his best friend blurts out the horrible truth - that he has a bright young girlfriend to match his glittering career. 
 
Unable to bear the pain and humiliation, Sara decides to get away. To get right away - to Cornwall, where in a dilapidated cottage by the sea she hopes to find... healing? Ora new life? 
 
With a surprised urban dog and the minimum of baggage, she discovers that she can manage on her own. That she is still an attractive, desirable woman. That she can be her own person, and dance to her own music. 
 
She might go back. Maybe. Or perhaps the future lies in a quite different direction altogether ......

Too Beautiful To Dance

Guy Burt

I used to think that perhaps everything that was happening to me - my whole life - was just a memory. As if one moment I could be eleven, and playing in the sun, and the next I might - wake up, somehow, and find I was old and dying, and the day when I was eleven was just a bright, clear memory... 
 
Alex is an artist, preparing for an exhibition to mark the peak of his career. His life seems ordered and complete, but an impulsive trip back to the Italy of his childhood forces him to explore the unresolved questions of his past. There, in those seemingly innocent days, as he swam and played and explored the wild countryside with Jamie and Anna, Alex must surely find the key to so much of his later life. He has to experience again his first friendship with Jamie, and his first love for Anna; and to put together the pieces of a story which brought the three of them together more closely than they could understand, with a bond which seemed innocent but which resulted in tragedy. 
 
In this disturbing new novel Guy Burt explores the darker side of childhood love and friendship, and the fear and pain of growing up. 
 
Of Guy Burt's first novel, After The Hole, the critics wrote: 
 
'A scintillating début...Burt's will be a name to watch' - Daily Mail 
 
'Compulsively sinister first novel ' - The Times 
 
'Insidiously brilliant' - The Independent

The Dandelion Clock

Pip Granger

Perfect for fans of Donna Douglas and Nancy Revell, a heart-warming saga set in post war London from Sunday Times bestselling author Pip Granger. 
 
"She brings the East End to life..." - Barbara Windsor 
"Read it straight through..." - ***** Reader review. 
"Love her writing." - ***** Reader review. 
 
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1945: The end of the war spreads joy through London, but for Zelda Fluck the news isn't all good. The end to hostilities will bring her violent husband Charlie home. It also sets off a chain of events that brings more strife and destruction to the people of Paradise Gardens in Hackney than did the Blitz. 
 
 That's not all. Zelda's nephew, Tony, is hanging around Brian Hole, a one-boy crime wave and only child of Ma Hole, leader of the local spivs. 
 
 But Tony can sing - he has, in fact, the voice of an angel - and Zelda's friend, Zinnia knows a voice coach in Soho whose lessons may be able to straighten Tony out. 
 
The people Zelda meets there change her life. Will she find a way out of Hackney and her failed marriage? 
 
Trouble in Paradise is a prequel to Pip Granger's Rosie novels...

Trouble In Paradise

A fantastically funny and feel-good tale from the East End…

Shyam Selvadurai

Selvadurai has captured horrifyingly well the airlessness of a society in which only a few are truly able to breathe, and deeply' Mary Loudon, The Times 
 
In Shyam Selvadurai's masterful second novel, set in repressive and complex 1920s Ceylon, the Cinnamon Gardens is a residential enclave of wealthy Ceylonese. Among them is Annalukshmi, an independent and high-spirited young teacher intent on thwarting her parents' plans to arrange her marriage. In a parallel narrative, her uncle, Balendran Navaratnam, respectably married but secretly homosexual, has his life disrupted by the arrival in Ceylon of Richard, a lover from long ago. 
 
'Richly rewarding . . . this is, in many ways, an old-fashioned novel, brimming with old-fashioned virtues. The characters and setting are established in a measured, finely judged manner, allowing us to feel at home with them. Annalukshmi's Jane Austen-ish domestic life -- anxious mother, bossy aunt, catty sisters, endless talk of prospective husbands -- is brought to life with glancing humour. Not least of the novel's virtues is the way he seems to conjure up a whole social panorama. With its vivid evocation of time and place, its wise characterisation, its involving emotional dramas, this is a novel that deserves, and will surely gain, a wide readership' Adam Lively, Sunday Times 
 
'Subtle and deeply humane . . . a fine novel that is both delicately written and very, very wise . . . Selvadurai has established himself firmly as an important chronicler of the complexities of social and cultural difference' Books in Canada 
 
'This is a distinctive voice and the author is a talent to be reckoned with' Telegraph, India

Cinnamon Gardens

A wonderfully warm and charming London saga, set in the Soho of the 1950s. If you like Donna Douglas and Nancy Revell, you'll love this! 
 
"She brings the East End to life..." - Barbara Windsor 
"A poignant story with a strong authentic backdrop..."-Woman &amp; Home 
"I enjoyed this book so much and would recommend it to anyone..." -- ***** Reader review 
"Great fun to read, amusing..." -- ***** Reader review 
 
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WINNER OF THE HARRY BOWLING PRIZE FOR FICTION. 
 
WHAT IF EVERYTHING YOU KNEW COULD BE TAKEN FROM YOU IN A FLASH? 
 
Rosie has always lived with her eagle-eyed Auntie Maggie and Uncle Bert in their café in Soho, often visited by her mother - the mysterious, and often drunk, Perfumed Lady. Yet, her mother's family - landed gentry who hail from a country estate near Bath - are desperate to get their hands on Sophie and will stop at nothing - even kidnap- to get her... 
 
Will Rosie have to leave the Soho and the neighbours she knows and loves - Great Aunt Dodie, Madame Zelda and Paulette, Sharky, Maltese Joe and the Campini Family who run the delicatessen in Old Compton Street - for good? 
 
Rosie's story continues in The Widow Ginger.

Not All Tarts Are Apple

A perfectly feel-good comic saga from the East End

To celebrate the launch of Quick Reads in 2006, The Sun ran a short story competition called 'Get Britain Reading' in order to find the hidden talent among its ten million readers.It was judged by Sun columnist and bestselling author Jane Moore.The Sun Book of Short Stories contains a selection of the winning entries.They may make you smile, laugh or cry - but all of them are sure to entertain you.

The Sun Book Of Short Stories

One small, faded, leather-bound journal. 
 
One photograph in a newspaper. 
 
These two seemingly small items are set to change lives forever. 
 
Just when career success seems set fair for Zeph's writer husband Nick, she discovers that he has been having an affair. Wounded and angry, she turns to her mother for support, only to discover that the past has also come back to haunt Cora, a person who always seemed utterly flawless. 
 
For now comes evidence of Cora's own long-ago relationship with a famous man, a man who so adored Zeph's mother that he never forgot her. 
 
Zeph is forced to see her own childhood, and the bond with her beloved father, in an entirely new light. Was she really loved, as her mother and father tried to deal with their problems? Was their happiness a sham, as hers and Nick's threatens to be? And how much can you trust the person who tells you that they love you? 
 
As Zeph struggles to piece together her shattered images of husband and parent, she suddenly realises the connection between herself and the writer of the journal which has appeared in the morning mail, posted from Italy; a last gift from a dying man, an anonymous and passionate stranger..... 
 
Set in both England and the alluringly beautiful island of Sicily, A YEAR IN THE LIGHT explores the complexities and subtleties of marriage, of lasting love and human frailty.

Learning By Heart

Tom Bradby

Cairo, June 1942. A city blistering under the lash of a relentless summer and panicked by the implacable advance of Hitler's most talented general, Erwin Rommel. It is the worst possible time and place for the body of a senior British officer to be found in a rubbish bin, bathed in blood. 
 
His murder has been made to look like a political assassination by local extremists opposed to British rule, but former New York cop Joe Quinn isn't buying that. He senses more fundamental human emotions at play. For Quinn, it's like old times, a reminder of his past. One he doesn't want to revisit. Thrown out of the New York Police Department as a liability after the tragic death of his son, he probably shouldn't be a cop any longer, but maybe he's just what this case needs. 
 
The investigation leads him through the underbelly of an exotic, violent and seedy city to the heart of the Cairo's high command and the possibility that a highly placed spy is feeding the allies' most sensitive secrets to Rommel, waiting out in the desert. 
 
Only one woman has seen the killer - an American named Amy White. The trouble is Joe Quinn's already falling for her and if he doesn't stop the spy soon, then not just Amy, but everything else he holds dear is certain to be brutally eliminated ...

The God Of Chaos

A riveting story of love and loss set in wartime Britain from the million copy and Sunday Times bestselling author Charlotte Bingham, perfect for fans of Louise Douglas and Dinah Jefferies. 
 
'One of Britain's most bankable novelists.' THE DAILY EXPRESS 
 
'A rip-roaring combination of high romance and breathless excitement' MAIL ON SUNDAY 
 
'Compelling.' WOMAN & HOME 
 
 
AS WAR BREAKS OUT, THE LIVES AND FORTUNES OF FOUR GIRLS WILL BE CHANGED FOREVER... 
 
Marjorie, left at a boarding school by her emigrating mother; plain Poppy, pushed into marriage with a mean-spirited aristocrat; Kate, despised by her father, but determined to prove herself; and man-mad Lily, who turns out to be the bravest of them all. 
 
That all of them are chosen to work undercover for the espionage unit at a beautiful stately home is a surprise, not least to them. At Eden Park they meet four unusual young men - Eugene, the feckless Irishman; Robert, Kate's brother; and Scott, the undisputed favourite of the unit. Only Jack Ward, the mysterious spymaster, manages to remain aloof as he guides their destinies. 
 
They will look back on this time as having felt more alive than ever before...

Daughters Of Eden

(The Eden series: 1): a captivating novel of friendship and fortitude set at the height of WW2 from bestselling author Charlotte Bingham

Fans of Louise Douglas, Dinah Jeffries and Kristin Hannah will love this heart-warming, captivating and compelling post-war saga by the million copy and Sunday Times bestselling author Charlotte Bingham. 
 
'As comforting as a hot milky drink on a stormy night. Her legions of fans will not be disappointed.' -- DAILY EXPRESS 
 'Outstanding' -- ***** Reader review 
'Another excellent read by Charlotte Bingham' -- ***** Reader review 
'These are characters you will really care about' -- ***** Reader review 
'Very enjoyable and hard to put down' -- ***** Reader review 
'Incredibly well written and engrossing' -- ***** Reader review 
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WHAT CAN OFFER THE ESCAPE THEY SEEK? 
 
The 1950s, post-War Britain: the only people in society who can be said to have a glamorous lifestyle are the very wealthy, the aristocracy, and people who worked in the theatre. 
 
Elsie Lancaster is the granddaughter of a hardened old professional actress who runs a seaside boarding house. 
 
Oliver is the third son of a Catholic aristocratic Yorkshire family whose mother has run off, so the theatre-mad butler has brought him up like a son to be a Great Actor. 
 
Coco Hampton, Oliver's best friend, has been raised in Sloane Street by Gladys, her profligate guardian, who is always borrowing money from Coco to buy more clothes. 
 
Gladys and Oliver have been fans of the theatre since they were knee-high, but Coco has only ever wanted to be a designer. When Coco joins Oliver at his drama school in London, to his chagrin she promptly gets cast in films because of her photogenic looks. 
 
Meanwhile, Elsie is 'discovered' in the provinces by Portly Cosgrove; shortly before meeting Oliver who promptly falls in love with her. And elsewhere, on location, Coco has her first affair with a handsome actor, which doesn't end well... 
 
A colourful cast of characters and a script you just couldn't make up...!

Distant Music

an unputdownable saga set in the glamorous world of the theatre from bestselling author Charlotte Bingham

Exciting and dramatic but tender and heartfelt; this is a novel that you will return to again and again. From the million copy and Sunday Times bestselling author Charlotte Bingham, for fans of Louise Douglas and Dinah Jeffries. 
 
'A novel rich in dramatic surprises... will have you frantically turning the pages.' - DAILY MAIL 
'One of Britain's most bankable novelists.' - THE DAILY EXPRESS 
'I laughed and cried at this tale, could visualise the characters, scenery and the story' - ***** Reader Review 
'Great book, grabs you on the first page' - ***** Reader Review 
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A WARTIME BETRAYAL STRAIGHT TO THE HEART 
 
As Walter Berrisford paints beautiful Katherine Garland, she asks him to put a ladybird on her finger without his knowing why. He is appalled when he discovers that Katherine is a Nazi. 
 
The outbreak of war means that everyone must contribute to the war effort: her sister Caro and her friend Robyn join the FANYs, while former maids, Betty and Trixie, work in a factory. 
 
War brings frantic romance to all, including their flatmate Edwina O'Brien, but it is Betty, transferred to decode at Bletchley Park who discovers the truth about the Ladybird...

Goodnight Sweetheart

a romantic wartime novel encompassing both love and tragedy from bestselling author Charlotte Bingham

A family finds peace through the unexpected struggle to aid a stranger in this captivating and moving saga. From the million copy and Sunday Times bestselling author Charlotte Bingham, for fans of Louise Douglas and Dinah Jefferies. 
 
 'An uplifting and inspiring book, emotional yet optimistic, which leaves the reader feeling optimistic and empowered' - THE GOOD BOOK GUIDE 
 
'I was surprised by this book. I'm not a romantic... but this did leave a little warm glow in my heart by the end.' - ***** Reader Review 
 
'A very enjoyable read, I loved the ending' - ***** Reader Review 
 
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HOW FAR WOULD YOU GO TO HELP A STRANGER? 
Florence Fontaine has not recovered from a family tragedy when she discovers a 
 strangely dressed young man asleep in her guest cottage at the Old Rectory. 
 
Against her better judgement she offers him breakfast, only to find herself caught up in his drama. Florence's young and beautiful daughter, Amadea, is immediately suspicious of Edmund, as he appears to be called, fearing that he might be a fraud. 
 
 Despite her reservations, Florence enlists friends and neighbours to help restore Edmund's memory. As the mystery unfolds, it becomes apparent that Edmund's history is entwined with that of nearby Harlington Hall, but that his real identity is something quite other. 
 
 Florence and Amadea become united in their quest and are finally able to put the tragedies of the past behind them, repair their once disjointed lives, and embrace a new and happy future...

Out Of The Blue

an enchanting and uplifting saga set in the West Country from bestselling author Charlotte Bingham

Fans of Louise Douglas, Dinah Jeffries and Kristin Hannah will love this unputdownable romantic read from bestselling author Charlotte Bingham. Portraying the highs and lows of love and marriage, it's an unforgettable read and the perfect dose of escapism. 
 
'The author perfectly evokes the atmosphere of a bygone era... ' -- Woman's Own 
'This is great summer escapism from an award-winning romantic novelist' - CHOICE 
'Compulsive reading!' -- ***** Reader review 
'Truly impossible to put down' -- ***** Reader review 
 
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AN ESCAPE TO THE COUNTRY...OR AN ESCAPE FROM HIM? 
 
When Trilby meets Lewis, the all-powerful proprietor of a newspaper group, she suspects that her life might be about to change, but not, as it transpires, forever. For not only does Lewis wish to acquire her cartoon strip, but Trilby herself. 
 
She is inevitably drawn to this handsome, older, and far more sophisticated personality, just as Lewis is, from the first, determined to marry the insouciant Trilby, despite the opposition of her friends and family. But having won her, 
Lewis reveals himself to be irrationally possessive. 
 
Becoming a virtual prisoner in her own home is not something that Trilby had ever dreamt could happen to her, a young woman in 1950s London, but it is not long before she realises that Lewis is prepared to go to extraordinary lengths to keep her to himself. Quite by chance, she discovers the real reason for her husband's unforgivable behaviour. 
 
Trilby must come to terms with the truth about Lewis, and more importantly, herself, before she can experience the kind of carefree happiness she once knew before her marriage.

Summertime

an intriguing romantic page-turner set in post-war London from bestselling novelist Charlotte Bingham

Fans of Louise Douglas, Dinah Jefferies and Kristin Hannah will not be disappointed by this magically romantic and dynamic saga by the million copy and Sunday Times bestselling author Charlotte Bingham. 
 
"Will satisfy all Bingham's fans" - SUNDAY TIMES 
"Great summer escapism from an award-winning romantic novelist" - CHOICE 
"Her imagination is thoroughly original" - DAILY MAIL 
"This is a novel so heartbreaking........so touching it kept me glued to the pages just anticipating the outcome for these wonderful characters." -- ***** Reader review 
"A wonderful read and very hard to put down" -- ***** Reader review 
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A TOUCHING STORY OF FINDING LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS.... 
 
World War Two: Londoners Miranda and Ted are sent to the country with another young evacuee, Roberta (Bobbie), to live with two unmarried sisters in their idyllic rectory. The time they spend with Aunt Sophie and Aunt Prudence turns their lives into something very near to Heaven: the archetypal idyllic countryside childhood. 
 
But when the two sisters learn they cannot adopt all three of them, it is Bobbie who is sent away to live with the Dingwalls in very different circumstances. And when the aunts die, Miranda, Tom and Bobbie are eventually parted, seemingly forever. 
 
 The three find each other after the war, and Miranda, now a beautiful young model, falls in love with grown-up Ted Mowbray, but he can only think of her as a sister. In turn, he loves Bobbie, yet she has already met her beloved Julian, getting to know him during a summer by the sea in Sussex. 
 
 How many hearts are destined to be broken and can they find their way to a happy and fulfilled future?

The Blue Note

a beautifully moving and unmissable wartime saga of love and loss from bestselling author Charlotte Bingham

A compelling and touching evocation of the wartime spirit by the million copy and Sunday Times bestselling author Charlotte Bingham, for fans of Louise Douglas and Dinah Jefferies. 
 
'A perfect escapist cocktail for summertime romantics' - MAIL ON SUNDAY 
'As compelling as ever' - WOMAN &amp; HOME 
'A holiday read that will keep you glued to your sun lounger' - SAFEWAY MAGAZINE 
'The author perfectly evokes the atmosphere of a bygone era' - WOMAN'S OWN 
'A compulsive read with the attitudes, mores and conditions of the 1940s accurately portrayed' - THE HISTORICAL NOVELS REVIEW 
'I can't tear myself away from this trilogy'-- ***** Reader review 
 
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WAR LOOMS, BUT WHAT WILL BE THEIR GREATEST SACRIFICE? 
 
It is the summer of 1939, and like the rest of Europe, the residents of the little idyllic Sussex fishing port of Bexham are preparing for war. 
 
The women of Bexham are all in their very individual ways determined to play an active part in the defence of their country. In this manner the little Sussex village, facing as it does the coastline of Nazi-invaded France, finds its closely sewn social fabric gradually unstitch, inch by little inch as traditional roles are radically changed. 
 
None of them are the same, and yet, with the men returning from war, they are expected to slip back into their simple roles of mother, daughter, grandmother. This, more than anything perhaps, is their greatest sacrifice. Having been freed by war, they have now to relinquish that very independence that gave them the liberty for which they once fought. 
 
Only the chestnut tree planted by Corrie at the edge of the village flourishes in the accepted manner, finally becoming the uniting symbol of all that has passed forever...

The Chestnut Tree

(The Bexham Trilogy: 1): a powerful novel of strength and sacrifice from bestselling author Charlotte Bingham

This cosy, captivating and dreamy love story with a magical twist by million-copy and Sunday Times bestselling author Charlotte Bingham, is the perfect escapist read. A must read for fans of Louise Douglas, Dinah Jeffries and Kristin Hannah. 
 
'Extremely popular...her books sell and sell' -- Daily Mail 
'A perfect escapist cocktail for summertime romantics' -- MAIL ON SUNDAY 
'I could not put it down' -- ***** Reader review 
'Fiction at its best' -- ***** Reader review 
'A magical tale' -- ***** Reader review 
'I have to say curled up by a log fire under a duvet is the best time to read this!' -- ***** Reader review 
'I was totally captivated' -- ***** Reader review 
 
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PEOPLE CHANGE BUT CAN LOVE SPRING ETERNAL? 
 
As children, George Dashwood and Amelia Dennison loved to roam the Sussex Downs in company with their dogs, and just as their two very different families were friends, so too were they. 
 
Years later, as the storm clouds of war gather, George realizes that what he feels for Amelia is more than friendship. But it is 1914 and the declaration of war cuts across any romantic plans that the two might have. 
 
 George is away at the Front for four years, and when the miracle happens and he returns home safely, it seems to Amelia and to both of their families that all they have to do is to marry. But Amelia quickly realizes that the George she loved as a child has gone... 
 
 Will a trip to the West Country and the discovery of an old, ruined priory be what they need to find the love and happiness they both know is buried deep?

The Kissing Garden

an intriguing, romantic bestseller set in the English countryside after World War One

Guy Walters

Great Britain, 1937: 
Edward VIII will not abdicate. He and his new bride, Wallis Simpson, are preparing for their coronation. 
 
Winston Churchill is a prisoner on the Isle of Man. 
 
The Prime Minister, Oswald Mosley consults the new Chancellor of Germany, and his close ally, Adolf Hitler on a more 'permanent' solution to the 'Jewish problem'. 
 
The secret police have Britain in an iron grip. 
 
But one man, James Armstrong , a hero of the Great War, is organising the resistance against the government . While 'the leader' is determined to see him hang, Armstrong, constantly on the run, is every bit as clever and resolute as his enemy. 
 
In the tradition of Robert Harris's Fatherland, Guy Walters has writen a compelling, page-turning what-if thriller that imagines a nightmare vision of a Britain that could have been, if history had gone the other way.

The Leader

Three friends make their mark on the world in this captivating and moving saga. From the million copy and Sunday Times bestselling author Charlotte Bingham, for fans of Louise Douglas and Dinah Jeffries. 
 
'Perfectly evokes the atmosphere of a bygone era...An entertaining Victorian romance' -- WOMAN'S OWN 
'I was surprised by this book. I'm not a romantic... but this did leave a little warm glow in my heart by the end.' - ***** Reader Review 
'A very enjoyable read, I loved the ending' - ***** Reader Review 
'I laughed and cried at this tale, could visualise the characters, scenery and the story' - ***** Reader Review 
'Great book, grabs you on the first page' - ***** Reader Review 
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THREE GREAT FRIENDS. THREE VERY DIFFERENT OUTCOMES... 
 
Following the death of her mother, Leonie Lynch is brought up in London's Eastgate Street by foster parents, her living expenses provided for by her young mother's friend, Lady Angela Bentick. 
 
When she turns eighteen, her godmother, the redoubtable Mrs Dodd, turns to Lady Angela to ask that she takes her on as a nurse at her nursing home and it is upon starting work that Leonie meets our two other heroines - Mercy Cordel and Dorinda Montgomery. 
 
Mercy grew up at the family home, Cordel Court in Somerset, and shortly after her seventeenth birthday, was brought up to London by her stepmother for the London Season. Dorinda Montgomery, on the other hand, has hardly ridden up and down Rotten Row more than a half a dozen times before she has captured the heart of every masher around town. Within days she is a famous member of the demi-monde, with her own house and carriage in St John's Wood. 
 
Meanwhile, Mercy Cordel is hard put to find a dancing partner. That she eventually finds a husband in the hard-bitten, hard-riding John Brancaster is a source of happy amazement to her. 
 
Society seems to reward Dorinda Montgomery more than it does the virtuous girl pushed into marriage with a suitably older husband. Certainly this is how it seems to Leonie Lynch, the only one of the three who has quite made up her mind to dedicate herself to something other than marriage...

The Love Knot

an intriguing, romantic bestseller about the Victorian politics of love and marriage from bestselling author Charlotte Bingham

Exciting and dramatic but tender and heartfelt; this is a novel that you will return to again and again. From the million copy and Sunday Times bestselling author Charlotte Bingham, for fans of Louise Douglas and Dinah Jeffries. 
 
'An engaging, romantic and nostalgic read' -- DAILY MAIL 
'Compulsive reading... Bingham's prose is lively and vivid, making this a real page turner' -- GOOD BOOK GUIDE 
"These are characters you will really care about" -- ***** Reader review 
"Very enjoyable and hard to put down" -- ***** Reader review 
"Incredibly well written and engrossing" -- ***** Reader review 
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TWO PATHS, ONE DESTINATION... 
 
When Alexandra Stamford goes to stay with her cousins at Knighton Hall she is very much the poor relation. Shortly after her return home, her father re-marries. No longer wanted, Alexandra is forced to become a maid-of-all-work for a Mrs Smithers who lives in a grand Regency house in the seaside town of Deanford. 
 
It is here that handsome, funny Bob Atkins meets and falls in love with Alexandra... 
 
Meanwhile Tom O'Brien, erstwhile stable lad at Knighton Hall, meets and falls for the beautiful Lady Florazel Compton who introduces him to the sophistications of 1950s London. 
 
As Bob is conscripted for National Service, Alexandra plans her future, and in doing so discovers family secrets that have a devastating impact. Tragedy strikes, and it is only when Tom returns from New York to search out his old friend Bob Atkins' fiancée that Alexandra's life appears about to be truly transformed. 
 
But the past seems destined to wreck the happiness of the present, as the glamorous Lady Florazel Compton is determined to re-capture her former love, destroying the magic hour of Tom's and Alexandra's meeting.

The Magic Hour

an uplifting and moving tale of serendipity and fate from bestselling author Charlotte Bingham

Shortlisted for the Crime Writers Association Thriller of the Year 
 
Shanghai, 1926. A city of British Imperial civil servants, American gun-runners, Russian princesses and Chinese gangsters, where heroin is available on room service and everything is for sale. Exotic, sexually liberated and pulsing with life, it is a place and time where anything seems possible. 
 
For Richard Field, it represents a brave new world away from the past he is trying to escape. Seconded to the police force, his first moment of active duty is a brutal crime scene. A young White Russian woman, Lena Orlov, lies spreadeagled on her bed, sadistically murdered. As he begins to peer through the glittering surface to the murky depths beneath, Field sees a world beyond the glamour of the city's expatriate life - a world where everything has its price, and where human life is merely another asset to barter. 
 
The key to the investigation seems to be Lena's neighbour, Natasha Medvedev. But can Field trust someone for whom self-preservation is the only goal? And is it wise to fall in love when there is every sign that Natasha herself may be the next victim? 
 
In a city where reality is a dangerous luxury, Field is driven into the darkness beyond the dazzle of society to a world where the basest of human needs are met and where the truth seems certain to be a fatal commodity . . . 
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Praise for Tom Bradby: 
 
&lsquo;Quite exceptional&rsquo; Daily Telegraph 
&lsquo;Nigh on impossible to put down&rsquo; Time Out 
&lsquo;Bradby has the talent of a reporter but the heart of a storyteller&rsquo; Daily Mail 
&lsquo;Intrigue of the highest order &hellip; Atmospheric and richly entertaining&rsquo; Washington Post 
&lsquo;This feisty, pacey thriller by TV news reporter turned writer Tom Bradby has it all&rsquo; Press Association

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Diary of a Submissive

The adventures of wise-cracking middle school student Greg Heffley who must somehow survive the scariest time of anyone's life: middle school. The hilarious and internationally bestselling Diary of a Wimpy Kid series.

Diary of a Wimpy Kid

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The Discworld is undoubtedly Sir Terry Pratchett's most famous creation. A universe teeming with dwarves, trolls, witches, and social and cultural issues that parallel those in our own world, all wrapped up in Pratchett's inimitable comic delivery. This iconic series will make you laugh, then make you think.

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