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Andrew Swanston read law at Cambridge, but was inspired to write by his lifelong interest in early modern history. His Thomas Hill novels – The King’s Spy, The King’s Exile and The King’s Return – are set against the backdrops of the English Civil War, Cromwell’s Commonwealth and the early Restoration respectively. He is also the author of Waterloo: The Bravest Man and Beautiful Star and Other Stories. His first historical thriller set during the reign of Elizabeth I – Incendium (published in paperback as The Incendium Plot) – introduced readers to the academic, lawyer and intelligencer Dr Christopher Radcliff, whose adventures continue in Chaos. Andrew Swanston lives in Surrey.

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A. J. BAIME is the New York Times best-selling author of The Arsenal of Democracy: FDR, Detroit, and an Epic Quest to Arm an America at War and Go Like Hell: Ford, Ferrari, and Their Battle for Speed and Glory at Le Mans. Both books are in development for major motion pictures. Baime is a longtime regular contributor to the Wall Street Journal, and his articles have also appeared in the New York Times, Popular Science, and Men’s Journal. He lives in Granite Bay, California. Visit him at facebook.com/ajbaime and trumanbook.com.

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Anthony James Pollard is a British medieval historian, specialising in the fifteenth century and in particular the Wars of the Roses. A leading authority in the field, he is profesor emeritus of Teesside University. His books include North-Eastern England during the Wars of the Roses, Richard III and the Princes in theTower, Imagining Robin Hood: the Late Medieval Stories in Historical Context and Warwick the kingmaker: Politics, Power and Fame.

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A K Benjamin is a clinical neuropsychologist and the author of Let Me Not Be Mad: A Story of Unravelling Minds.

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A. L. Berridge read English at Oxford, and taught for ten years before moving into television, where her production credits range from period drama and thrillers to long-running soaps. She has written two previous novels, Top Ten besteller Honour and the Sword and In the Name of the King. Into the Valley of Death is her third novel.

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Alison Gaylin's first job was as a reporter for a celebrity tabloid, which sparked a lifelong interest in writing about people committing despicable acts. More than a decade later, she wrote and published her Edgar-nominated first novel, HIDE YOUR EYES. 
 
She's since published nine more books, including the USA Today and international bestselling Brenna Spector suspense series, which has been nominated for the Edgar, Anthony and Thriller awards and won the Shamus award. 
 
She lives in upstate New York with her husband, daughter, cat and dog.

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A.S. Webb is the Sunday Times bestselling author of Daughter of Chaos, the first instalment of The Dark Pantheon Trilogy. She is inspired by stories rooted in history and mythology, that push the boundaries of imagination and urge us to reflect on what it means to be human.

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A. A. Dhand is the author of six previous novels, and has been shortlisted for the CWA Steel Dagger Award. His DI Harry Virdee novels are currently being adapted for TV by the BBC. He was raised in Bradford and spent his youth observing the city from behind the counter of a small convenience store. After qualifying as a pharmacist, he worked in London and travelled extensively before returning to Bradford to start his own business and begin writing. The history, diversity and darkness of the city have inspired all his novels. For more information about A. A. Dhand and his books, follow him on X @aadhand, and on Instagram @aa_dhand.

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A. B. Poranek grew up sharing her time between Ontario, Canada and rural Poland, and eventually completed a veterinary degree at the Warsaw University of Life Sciences. A lover of mythology and history, she enjoys exploring both in her writing. Her debut novel, Where the Dark Stands Still, an instant New York Times bestseller, is an ode to Poland's folktales, while A Treachery of Swans transports readers to a world inspired by 17th century France.

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Professor A. C. Grayling is Principal of the New College of the Humanities at Northeastern University, London, and a Supernumerary Fellow of St Anne's College, Oxford. He has written and edited over thirty books on philosophy, history, science and current affairs. For several years he wrote columns for the Guardian newspaper and The Times and was the chairman of the 2014 Man Booker Prize.

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A.D. Miller is the author of Snowdrops, The Earl of Petticoat Lane and The Faithful Couple. Snowdrops was a bestseller and was shortlisted for many prizes including the Man Booker and the CWA Gold Dagger. It was translated into 25 languages. As Moscow Correspondent of The Economist A.D. Miller has travelled across the former Soviet Union and covered the Orange Revolution in Ukraine; he is now the magazine’s Culture Editor based in London. 
 
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A. Igoni Barrett was born in Port Harcourt, Nigeria, in 1979 and lives in Lagos. He is a winner of the 2005 BBC World Service short story competition, the recipient of a Chinua Achebe Center Fellowship, a Norman Mailer Center Fellowship, and a Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center Residency. His short story collection, Love is Power, or Something Like That, was published in 2013. In 2014 he was named on the Africa39 list of sub-Saharan African writers under 40. Blackass is his first novel.

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Diana Gabaldon

World War II nurse Claire Randall finds herself transported back to 1743 where she meets young Scottish soldier Jamie Fraser, and the two travel from Scotland to America taking part in some of the most momentous events of the time.

The iconic first novel in the bestselling Outlander series, as seen on Amazon Prime. 
'Outlander is epic, magical, and deeply romantic. A true gift to all readers.’ Ali Hazelwood 
‘A stone-cold classic' Katherine Arden 
'Scotland's answer to Game of Thrones' Herald______________ 
 
What if your future lay in the past? 
 
1946, and Claire Randall goes to the Scottish Highlands with her husband Frank. It's a second honeymoon, a chance to re-establish their loving marriage. But one afternoon, Claire walks through a circle of standing stones and vanishes into 1743, where the first person she meets is a British army officer - her husband's six-times great-grandfather. 
 
Unfortunately, Black Jack Randall is not the man his descendant is, and while trying to escape him, Claire falls into the hands of a gang of Scottish outlaws, and finds herself a Sassenach - an outlander - in danger from both Jacobites and Redcoats. 
 
Marooned amid danger, passion and violence, her only chance of safety lies in Jamie Fraser, a gallant young Scots warrior. 
 
What begins in compulsion becomes urgent need, and Claire finds herself torn between two very different men, in two irreconcilable lives. 
 
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Readers love the Outlander series: 
 
'So intricately plotted and peopled that one is amazed she could conceive and write it in only seven years' Independent 
 
'Gabaldon is a gifted world-builder' Daily Telegraph 
 
'Diana Gabaldon's Outlander series has brought a touch of Caledonian magic to millions around the globe' Ian Rankin 
 
'An unforgettable, unparalleled love story that will leave you craving more' Olivie Blake 
 
'A sweeping tale of love, honor, sacrifice and rebellion, Outlander has long defined truly epic storytelling' Cassandra Clare

Outlander

(Outlander 1)

Lesley Pearse

A beloved classic by the Sunday Times, multi-million copy bestselling author 
 
Charity Stratton is just fifteen when her world shatters. After losing her parents in a terrible fire, she’s separated from her beloved siblings and forced into servitude. 
 
Her life as a boarding school kitchen maid is backbreaking and lonely. And her brief moments of joy with a dashing student end in heartbreak when she becomes pregnant. 
 
But Charity’s spirit refuses to be broken. Escaping to London, she finds a city teeming with both opportunity and peril. Will Charity's resilience be enough to overcome the odds, reunite her family and build a better life for them all? 
 
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Praise for Lesley Pearse: 
 
'I couldn’t put this book down. Although harrowing at times, Lesley’s indomitable spirit shines through. What an inspiration, what a book!' - Katie Fforde 
 
'Fabulously entertaining... a poignant and powerful story that is truly unputdownable.' - Milly Johnson 
 
'A totally gripping read, by turns tragic, mad-cap, heartbreaking and mind-blowing. And anyone who can read that final chapter without bursting into happy tears has to have a heart of stone.' - Jill Mansell 
 
'An incredible life story from a literary icon, Lesley Pearse’s truth is even more gripping than her fiction' - Veronica Henry 
 
'Inspiring, heart-warming, extraordinary' - Woman's Weekly 
 
'Humorous and heartbreaking... I was so gripped I read it twice' - Kate Furnivall 
 
'What a roller coaster of a ride. I couldn't do anything else until I'd finished this book. Gripping, heart wrenching... an amazing read' - Jo Thomas

Charity

Dilly Court

The gripping saga from the Sunday Times top ten bestselling author of The Workhouse Girl. 
 
At just eleven years old, Stella Barry is torn from her poverty-stricken mother and thrust into service. 
 
One Sunday, she returns home for a longed-for visit to find her family have been evicted from their lodgings. And have vanished without a trace. 
 
Seven years later, plucky, determined Stella has thrived. But when terrible circumstances force her to flee, with no references and only a few personal possessions, she knows she'll need all her strength to survive. 
 
Setting out on her own, can Stella finally find her family, and the loving home she’s always dreamed of? 
 
READERS LOVE DILLY COURT: 
 
‘Truly riveting… It has everything to keep you spellbound. What a talented author. I read until my eyes drooped.’ 
 
‘Full of wonder, drama and romance. A very easy and enticing read with a wonderful ending.’ 
 
‘So touching and gripping… amazing where love takes you. Could not stop reading.’ 
 
‘Twists and turns on every page, drawing me into the heartaches and dilemmas…’ 
 
'Her characters are like old friends'

A Loving Family

Taylor Jenkins Reid

NOW A SMASH HIT AMAZON PRIME TV STARRING SAM CLAFLIN, RILEY KEOUGH AND CAMILA MORRONEThe Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller from the author of THE SEVEN HUSBANDS OF EVELYN HUGO and the bestselling MALIBU RISING 
 
'I LOVE it . . . I can't remember the last time I read a book that was so fun' 
DOLLY ALDERTON 
 
Everybody knows Daisy Jones and the Six. 
 
Their sound defined an era. Their albums were on every turntable. They sold out arenas from coast to coast. 
 
Then, on 12 July 1979, Daisy Jones walked barefoot onto the stage at Chicago Stadium. And it all came crashing down. 
 
Everyone was there. 
 
Everyone remembers it differently. 
 
Nobody knew why they split. Until now . . . 
 
'The verdict: Daisy Jones steals the limelight' 
STYLIST 
 
'New obsession, incoming' 
TELEGRAPH 
 
'I didn't want this book to end' 
FEARNE COTTON 
 
'Utterly believable . . . fantastically enjoyable' 
THE TIMES 
 
'Pitch perfect' 
SUNDAY TIMES 
 
'Reads like an addictive Netflix documentary meets A Star Is Born - despite being utterly fictional. It's also a call-to-arms that when you find your niche, don't doubt, embrace it' 
EMERALD STREET 
 
'Well observed, sensitively told . . . a great read' 
BBC 
 
'A tremendously engaging, and completely believable tale of rock and roll excess... inventive, persuasive and completely satisfying' 
DYLAN JONES 
 
'I spent a lost weekend in this book. Daisy Jones is an instant icon' 
ERIN KELLY 
 
'DAISY JONES & THE SIX is a transporting novel - at once a love story, a glimpse into the combustible inner workings of a rock-and-roll band, and a pitch-perfect recreation of the music scene of the Fleetwood Mac era. You'll never want it to end' 
CECILIA AHERN 
 
'Once in a blue moon you get to discover a book you end up pressing upon many other people to read. Taylor Jenkins Reid has got every nuance, every detail exact and right. I loved every word' 
PAUL REES 
 
'So brilliantly written I thought all the characters were real . . . I couldn't put it down' 
EDITH BOWMAN 
 
'Explosive . . . a gorgeous novel and a ravishing read' 
SUNDAY EXPRESS 
 
'The characters leap off the page, seducing you with their dramas, and making you wish the band was real' 
HEAT 
 
Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller, April 2023

Daisy Jones and The Six

Deluxe Special Edition Featuring Sprayed Edges and Bonus Content

Gill Hornby

Throughout her lifetime, Jane Austen wrote countless letters to her sister. But why did Cassandra burn them all? 
 
1840: twenty three years after the death of her famous sister Jane, Cassandra Austen returns to the village of Kintbury, and the home of her family's friends, the Fowles. 
 
She knows that, in some dusty corner of the sprawling vicarage, there is a cache of family letters which hold secrets she can never allow to be revealed. 
 
As Cassandra recalls her youth and her relationship with her brilliant yet complex sister, she pieces together buried truths about Jane's history, and her own. And she faces a stark choice: should she act to protect Jane's reputation, or leave the contents of the letters to go unguarded into posterity? 
 
Based on a literary mystery that has long puzzled biographers and academics, Miss Austen is a wonderfully original and emotionally complex novel about the loves and lives of Cassandra and Jane Austen.

Miss Austen

Sarah Scarse may be young but life in the notorious St Giles and St George’s workhouse has forced her to grow up fast. 
 
And after her mother’s untimely death, Sarah’s fighting spirit becomes her only defence against the workhouse master, Trigg, and his cruel wife. 
 
Sarah’s fate appears to change, however, when a sugar mill owner takes her into his home. 
 
But just as Sarah starts working towards a brighter future, dangerous figures from the past threaten to catch up with her. 
 
Can she draw on her determined resolve to finally confront her problems and free herself from the shackles of the workhouse, once and for all?

The Workhouse Girl

A classic family saga from Sunday Times Bestseller Dilly Court 
 
Despite her privileged upbringing, Daisy Lennox has always longed to make something of her life. 
 
She is drawn to the suffragette movement, but when her father faces ruin they are forced to move to the country and Daisy's first duty is to her family. 
 
Here she becomes engaged to her childhood friend - a union both families have dreamed of. 
 
But, on the eve of their wedding, war is declared, and Daisy knows her life will never be the same again... 
 
 
Dilly Court, Number 1 Sunday Times bestseller, February 2024

The Best of Daughters

In the quiet of a warm summer's evening, two young mothers are forced to give up their babies. 
 
As the years have passed, Kate has grown up knowing only poverty and servitude, whilst Josie's world is one of privilege and luxury. 
 
Despite the differences in their circumstances, Kate and Josie have been friends since childhood. But their past binds them together in ways they must never know. 
 
Until a chance meeting forces Kate and Josie to confront the truth of that night nearly twenty years before - a truth that turns both worlds upside down and threatens to destroy their friendship forever. . .

The Lady's Maid

Nancy Revell

THE FIRST SHIPYARD GIRLS NOVEL FROM SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR, NANCY REVELL. 
 
'Nancy Revell knows how to stir the passions and soothe the heart!' The Northern Echo 
 
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Sunderland, 1940, and the women go to the shipyards to do their bit for the war effort. 
 
Polly never dreamed she would be able to work in the shipyards like the men in her family but times are tough and her new job ends up giving her more than she ever expected when she meets enigmatic dock diver Tommy Watts. 
 
During the day, head welder Rosie teaches her fledgling flock of trainees their new trade, but at night she hides a secret life. 
 
And mother hen Gloria signs up to escape her brutal husband, but finds she cannot run from her problems. 
 
The Shipyard Girls start off as strangers - but end up forging an unbreakable bond of friendship in the most difficult times. 
 
Praise for The Shipyard Girls series: 
 
'the author is one to watch' Sun 
 
'A brilliant read' Take a Break 
 
'Well-drawn, believable characters combined with a storyline to keep you turning the pages' Woman

The Shipyard Girls

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Robert Harris

Welcome inside the violent, treacherous world of Roman politics, and learn how one man - clever, compassionate, devious, vulnerable - fought to reach the top.

'Confirms Harris's undisputed place as our leading master of both the historical and contemporary thriller' Daily Mail 
 
'Climatic in every sense . . . I could not put it down' Guardian 
 
There was a time when Cicero held Caesar's life in the palm of his hand. But now Caesar is the dominant figure and Cicero's life is in ruins. Cicero's comeback requires wit, skill and courage. And for a brief and glorious period, the legendary orator is once more the supreme senator in Rome. But politics is never static. And no statesman, however cunning, can safeguard against the ambition and corruption of others. 
 
'The finest fictional treatment of Ancient Rome in the English language' The Scotsman

Dictator

'A pure thriller . . . wry, clever, thoughtful, with a terrific sense of timing and eye for character' Observer 
 
'No one delivers thrilling yet timeless games of power, sex, fame and Rome like Robert Harris' Sunday Telegraph 
 
Rome, 63 BC. Seven men are struggling for power: Cicero the consul, Caesar his ruthless rival, Pompey the republic's greatest general, Crassus its richest man, Cato a political fanatic, Catilina a psychopath and Clodius an ambitious playboy. 
 
These real historical figures - their alliances and betrayals, their cruelties and seductions - are all interleaved in Lustrum, through its narrator Tiro, a confidential secretary to Cicero. He knows all his master's secrets - a dangerous position to be in. 
 
 
'Thoroughly engaging . . . The allure of power and the perils that attend it have seldom been so brilliantly anatomised in a thriller' Sunday Times

Lustrum

A Classic Family Saga from Sunday Times Bestseller Dilly Court 
 
Phoebe Giamatti lives with her Italian family in the heart of London's East End. With her father killed by a notorious gang years earlier, Phoebe is now responsible for keeping her loved ones out of trouble. 
 
But just as the Giamatti family are about to go to Italy for the winter, Phoebe discovers a secret 
about her mother that could tear them all apart. Determined not to betray her mother's trust, Phoebe faces an impossible decision. 
 
Can she confront a dangerous past in order to protect her family's future? 
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READERS LOVE DILLY COURT 
 
‘Truly riveting… It has everything to keep you spellbound. What a talented author. I read until my eyes drooped.’ 
 
‘Full of wonder, drama and romance. A very easy and enticing read with a wonderful ending.’ 
 
‘So touching and gripping… amazing where love takes you. Could not stop reading.’ 
 
‘Twists and turns on every page, drawing me into the heartaches and dilemmas…’ 
 
'Her characters are like old friends'

A Mother's Trust

A heartwarming and gripping novel from the no.1 Sunday Times bestseller

'With Archangel, Robert Harris confirms his position as Britain's pre-eminent literary thriller writer' The Times 
 
'He has a talent for heart-poundingly tense story-telling, and an ability to conjure up atmospheres almost palpable with menace' Sunday Times 
 
When historian Fluke Kelso learns of the existence of a secret notebook belonging to Josef Stalin he is determined to track it down, whatever the consequences. From the violent political intrigue and decadence of modern Moscow he heads north - to the vast forests surrounding the White Sea port of Archangel, and a terrifying encounter with Russia's unburied past.

Archangel

'Immersive' Guardian 
'Stunning' Daily Express 
'Riveting' Telegraph 
 
Victory is close. Vengeance is closer. 
 
Rudi Graf used to dream of sending a rocket to the moon. Instead, he has helped to create the world's most sophisticated weapon: the V2 ballistic missile, capable of delivering a one-ton warhead at three times the speed of sound. 
 
In a desperate gamble to avoid defeat in the winter of 1944, Hitler orders ten thousand to be built. Graf is tasked with firing these lethal 'vengeance weapons' at London. 
 
Kay Caton-Walsh is an officer in the Women's Auxiliary Air Force who joins a unit of WAAFs on a mission to newly liberated Belgium. Armed with little more than a slide rule and a few equations, Kay and her colleagues will attempt to locate and destroy the launch sites. 
 
As the death toll soars, Graf and Kay fight their grim, invisible war - until one final explosion of violence causes their destinies to collide... 
 
'A riveting read with a corker of a twist' Daily Telegraph 
'Supremely readable' Observer 
'Delivers one hell of a punch' Express 
'Captures the real nature of war. Gripping' Ben MacIntyre

'Top-class' The Times 
 
March 1943, the war hangs in the balance, and at Bletchley Park Tom Jericho, a brilliant young codebreaker, is facing a double nightmare. The Germans have unaccountably changed their U-boat Enigma code, threatening a massive Allied defeat. And as suspicion grows that there may be a spy inside Bletchley, Jericho's girlfriend, the beautiful and mysterious Claire Romilly, suddenly disappears. 
 
'A compulsive page turner' Daily Mail 
'As human, intelligent and gripping as documentary fiction can get' Financial Times

Enigma

'A writer who handles suspense like a literary Alfred Hitchcock' Nelson Mandela 
 
April, 1964. The naked body of an old man floats in a lake on the outskirts of Berlin. In one week it will be Adolf Hitler's 75th birthday. A terrible conspiracy is starting to unravel . . . 
 
'Robert Harris has created the whole structure of a totally corrupt society in a way that makes the flesh creep' Sunday Times 
'Powerful and chilling . . . convincing in every detail' Daily Telegraph 
'Clever and ingenious . . . its breeding is by Orwell, out of P.D. James, a detective story inside a future shock' Daily Mail

Fatherland

'Masterful' Sunday Times 
 
'Gripping and accomplished' Guardian 
 
'Truly gifted, razor-sharp' Daily Telegraph 
 
Ancient Rome teems with ambitious and ruthless men. None is more brilliant than Marcus Cicero. A rising young lawyer, backed by a shrewd wife, he decides to gamble everything on one of the most dramatic courtroom battles of all time. Win it, and he could win control of Rome itself. Lose it, and he is finished forever. 
 
Imperium is an epic account of the timeless struggle for power and the sudden disintegration of a society. 
 
'In Harris' hands, the great game becomes a beautiful one' The Times 
 
'A further step forward by this brilliant man who excels in everything he writers' Sunday Telegraph

Imperium

WHAT IF YOUR FUTURE LIES IN THE PAST? 
 
'One word: wonderful. Two words: compulsive reading. Three words: buy it tomorrow. Four words: tonight, if possible.' STEPHEN KING 
 
'A thoroughly absorbing, page-turning narrative.' SUNDAY TIMES 
 
'Genuinely thrilling.' DAILY TELEGRAPH 
 
Dusk is gathering as a young priest, Christopher Fairfax, rides across a silent land. 
He must arrive at a remote village in the wilds of Exmoor before night falls. He's lost and he's becoming anxious as he slowly picks his way across a countryside strewn with the ancient artefacts of a civilisation that seems to have ended in cataclysm. 
 
What Fairfax cannot know is that, in the days and weeks to come, everything he believes in will be tested as he uncovers a secret that is as dangerous as it is terrifying . . . 
'[Harris] takes us on a thrilling ride while serving up serious food for thought.' SUNDAY EXPRESS 
 
'A truly surprising future-history thriller. Fabulous, really.' EVENING STANDARD 
 
'The book's real power lies in its between-the-lines warning that our embrace of the internet represents some kind of sleepwalk into oblivion. It's a provocative, tub-thumping sci-fi of which H. G. Wells might have been proud.' DAILY MAIL 
 
'Harris' latest work intelligently warps historical fiction and tackles issues of religion, science and the apocalypse in the process. As he flexes his imagination, you will be left pondering as often as you are page-turning.' HERALD 
 
'A brilliantly imaginative thriller' READER'S DIGEST

The Second Sleep

Georgette Heyer

Adam Deveril, the new Viscount Lynton and a hero at Salamanca, returns from the Peninsula War to find his family on the brink of ruin and the broad acres of his ancestral home mortgaged to the hilt. It is Lord Oversley, father of Adam's first love, who tactfully introduces him to Mr Jonathan Chaleigh, a City man of apparently unlimited wealth with no social ambitions for himself, but with his eyes firmly fixed on a suitable match for his one and only daughter. 
 
For more than fifty years Georgette Heyer brought romance and adventure to a worldwide readership and Civil Contarct shows how she continues to be loved today.

A Civil Contract

Gossip, scandal and an unforgettable Regency romance

Tragically left an orphan after her father's death, Kate Malvern is taken under the wing of her foreboding aunt Minerva and brought to the grand house of Staplewood, where Minerva rules the household. 
 
Her uncle lives in one wing, while her handsome, moody cousin occupies another; guests are few and far between, and even family dinners are rigidly formal. 
 
But the sudden arrival of Cousin Philip throws Minerva's control over the household into doubt, and soon Kate begins to suspect the shocking reason for Minerva's generosity. 
 
She has no-one to confide in but Cousin Philip who - for reasons unknown - seems to have taken an unaccountable dislike to her... 
 
A rich and classic Regency Romance, Cousin Kate is replete with the sparkling humour, memorable characters and intricate plots that will delight Heyer fans the world over. 
 
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'My generation's Julia Quinn' Adjoa Andoh 
 
'Utterly delightful' Guardian 
 
'If you haven't read Georgette Heyer yet, what a treat you have in store' Harriet Evans

Cousin Kate

John, Duke of Bedford, grew to manhood fighting for his father, King Henry IV of England, on the wild and lawless Northern Marches. A prince of the royal blood, loyal, strong, the greatest ally that his brother - the future Henry V - was to have. Filled with the clash of bitter rivalries and deadly power struggles, this is Georgette Heyer's last and most ambitious novel.

My Lord John

Gossip, scandal and an unforgettable historical adventure

Gossip, scandal and an unforgettable Regency historical romance

Even as a fourteen-year-old orphan, Simon Beauvallet knows his own mind. 
 
Later, friend and foe alike will know better than to cross the flaxen-haired mountain of a man whose exploits in battle have earned him knighthood, lands and gilded armour. 
 
However, his close circle of friends know him by another name: Simon the Coldheart. 
 
He seems to be a man incapable of love - until in Normandy he meets Lady Margaret, the so-called spitfire of Belremy. 
 
Can she melt Simon's icy demeanour and quench his fiery rage?

Simon The Coldheart

Born the illegitimate son of the future Duke of Normandy, William must fight the King of France to regain his Duchy. 
 
 Spurned in love by the lovely Princess Matilda, William argues hard to make her his bride. 
 
 Thwarted by the Saxon Earl Harold of a promise of the throne of England, William the Conqueror sails to Hastings to claim the King's crown and sceptre for his own. 
 
Written in Heyer's inimitable style, The Conqueror dives deep into William's complex character, his ruthless ambition and both the physical and mental battles he must endure in order to claim King Harold's crown and sceptre for his own. 
 
'Fabulously witty' Stephen Fry 
 
'Incisively witty, quietly subversive' Joanne Harris 
 
'If you haven't read Georgette Heyer yet what a treat you have in store' Harriet Evans

The Conqueror

Returning home from the battle of Waterloo to claim his title as the new Seventh Earl of St Erth, Gervase Frant is met with surprising hostility from his family. 
 
Only Theo, a cousin even quieter than himself, is there to greet him - and when he meets his stepmother and young half-brother he detects open disappointment that he survived the wars. 
 
The tensions in the household only worsen as the beautiful Mariann, the intended bride of Gervase's half-brother, catches his eye - and his heart. 
 
Gervase may be off the battlefield, but his life is still threatened, as it becomes increasingly clear that someone wants him dead...

The Quiet Gentleman

'As incisively witty and quietly subversive as any of Jane Austen's novels' Joanne Harris 
'Triumphantly good' India Knight 
'Rapturously romantic' Katie Fforde 
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Neither Sir Tristram Shield nor his beautiful young cousin, Eustacie, share the slightest inclination to marry one another. 
 
Yet it is Eustacie's grandfather's dying wish, made on his deathbed. 
 
For there is no one else to look after and provide for Eustacie while his heir, Ludovic, remains a fugitive from justice after allegedly murdering a man in a dispute over a priceless family heirloom. 
 
And so the hunt is on - to find Ludovic and bring him home as well as the Talisman Ring ... 
 
Romance, a murder mystery, a proposed marriage of convenience, and the hunt for a golden ring lie at the heart of one of Georgette Heyer's funniest and fastest-paced romantic comedies to date.

The Talisman Ring

P.G. Wodehouse

'It seems to me that you and I were made for each other. I am your best friend's best friend and we both have a taste for stealing other people's jewellery.' 
 
Lady Constance Keeble has both an imperious manner and a valuable diamond necklace. The precarious peace of Blandings is shattered when her necklace becomes the object of desire for some well-connected jewel thieves - among them the Honourable Freddie Threepwood, who wants the reward money for a bookmaking business, and Psmith, the elegant socialist. On patrol with the impossible task of bringing order to Blandings is the Efficient Baxter, whose strivings lead to a memorable encounter with the castle flowerpots.

Leave it to Psmith

IN THE HUNT FOR A SPY, HE EXPOSED A CONSPIRACY 
 
'Seriously riveting . . . a testament to Robert Harris's storytelling power' The Times 
 
'Taut and exciting' Guardian 
 
Paris, 1895: an army officer, Georges Picquart, watches a convicted spy, Alfred Dreyfus, being publicly humiliated in front of a baying crowd. 
 
Dreyfus is exiled for life to Devil's Island; Picquart is promoted to run the intelligence until that tracked him down. 
 
But when Picquart discovers that secrets are still being handed over to the Germans, he is forced to confront the dangerous truth that Dreyfus may be innocent. 
 
Soon Picquart is being drawn into a labyrinth of deceit and corruption that threatens not just his honour but his life . . . 
 
'Menace and suspense twist tight in a narrative of tremendous tension' Sunday Times

An Officer and a Spy

'A brilliantly constructed spy novel' Observer 
 
'Grips from start to finish ... Superb' Mail on Sunday 
 
MUNICH, SEPTEMBER 1938 
 
Hitler is determined to start a war. Chamberlain is desperate to preserve the peace. 
 
They will meet in a city which forever afterwards will be notorious for what is about to take place. 
 
As Chamberlain's plane judders over the channel and the Fuhrer's train steams south, two young men travel with their leaders. Former friends from a more peaceful time, they are now on opposing sides. 
 
As Britain's darkest hour approaches, the fate of millions could depend on them - and the secrets they're hiding. 
 
Spying. Betrayal. Murder. Is any price too high for peace?

Munich

'A pulse-rate-speeding masterpiece' Sunday Times 
 
'A stunning novel . . . the subtlety and power of its construction holds our attention to the end' The Times 
 
During a sweltering week in late August, as Rome's richest citizens relax in their villas around Pompeii and Herculaneum, there are ominous warnings that something is going wrong. Wells and springs are failing, a man has disappeared, and now the greatest aqueduct in the world - the mighty Aqua Augusta - has suddenly ceased to flow . . . 
 
Through the eyes of four characters - a young engineer, an adolescent girl, a corrupt millionaire and an elderly scientist - Robert Harris brilliantly recreates a luxurious world on the brink of destruction. 
 
'As explosive as Etna, as addictive as a thriller, as satisfying as great history' Daily Telegraph

Pompeii

Marlen Suyapa Bodden

'Bodden's absorbing page-turner maintains its suspense right up to the final pages.' Sunday Express 
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Sarah Campbell has always known she was different. 
 
A slave at Allen Estates, Alabama, and the illegitimate daughter of the plantation owner Mr Allen, she's used to the other children's jibes, her mother's night-time trips to Mr Allen and, to her delight, her furtive literacy lessons with her white half-sister Clarissa. 
 
Slowly, using her forbidden knowledge of reading and writing, Sarah plots an escape to the north and freedom. But Sarah's life is turned upside-down when she learns she will be given to Clarissa's cruel, soon-to-be-husband as a wedding gift, becoming his property. 
 
Sarah knows this could be her last chance to escape for good. But will her secret skills and unrelenting willpower be enough to set her free? 
_____________________________ 
 
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The Wedding Gift

The year is 1Q84. This is the real world, there is no doubt about that. But in this world, there are two moons in the sky. Discover the 1Q84 Trilogy by Haruki Murakami.

1Q84

365 Days of Art

A BBC Christmas

A Black Book Thriller

A Box Full of Murders

A Cal Leandros Novel

A Christmas Mystery

The intelligent and capable police commissioner Guido Brunetti confronts crime in and around his home town of Venice.

A Commissario Brunetti Mystery

A DC Smith / Kings Lake Investigation Series

A Daisy Story

Chronicling the lives of over three hundred characters, unrivalled for its scope and humour, this is a unique evocation of life in twentieth-century England.

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