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A powerful, captivating tale of family secrets and hidden heartache from an internationally acclaimed author

History's repetitions signal the rekindling of revolutionary spirit. Paris, 1940. The course of Fatiha Bin-Khalid's life is changed forever when she befriends the Muslim feminist Doria Shafik. But after returning to Egypt and dedicating years to the fight for women's rights, she struggles to reconcile ...

Dan Fogarty, an Irishman living in England, is looking after his sister Una, now seventy and suffering from dementia in a care home in Margate. From Dan’s anarchic account, we gradually piece together the story of the Fogarty family. How the parents are exiled from a small Irish village and end up ...

'Ireland produces writers the way some countries produce footballers, and the latest is John Patrick McHugh' Sunday Times


'One of the most exciting writers working in Ireland today' SALLY ROONEY, author of Normal People

Espionage fact and fiction collide in this thrilling compendium of spy writing, where you'll fi nd some of the greatest spy stories ever written alongside genuine agent reports and instructions that changed the course of history - all within one definitive and unique collection. Daring wartime plans ...

Supremacy Software is the world's largest video-game developer and publisher. If you've played games, you've played one of theirs at some point. They're the shining light, a dream job for many aspiring game developers. Who Hunts the Whale? tells the story of a newly hired PA taking a seat in the executive ...

Deals with how we spend our days and too many of our nights. This book discusses being away from friends and family, sharing a stretch of stained carpet with a group of strangers we call colleagues. It discusses how we sit all morning next to someone we deliberately cross the road to avoid at lunchtime. It presents the story of our times.

Hiding her clandestine activities behind the persona of a model Nazi soldier's wife at the height of World War II, Sigrid Schroeder dreams of her former Jewish lover and risks everything to hide a mother and two young children who she believes might be her lover's family. A first novel.

While being assessed at an Iowa psychiatric hospital, mentally troubled Max Parkman is found covered with blood at the scene of a horrific murder and is accused of being the killer. His mother, Danielle, is desperate to prove her son innocent.

For CIA operative John Wells, the underworld has become more real than the real world. He's spent years in the close company of evil men. And he's paid the price in every possible way. Now, he's on the ragged edge of burnout. His nights are plagued by twisted dreams. He's beginning to doubt if he can ...

When Scarlett Smith's mother dies of a heart attack on Coronation day, Scarlett and her father have to move out of their country pub to a seafront pub in South end. There Scarlett meets Jonathan Blane, son of the landlord. They enjoy an innocent romance, but when Jonathan's father makes a pass at Scarlett and she reacts violently.

Stella arrives in Paris and rediscovers her appetite for life, in this irresistible novel about taking chances and finding your true home, by a New York Times-bestselling author

A darkly atmospheric and beautifully crafted meditation on otherness, from an award-winning young writer

An intimate, stirring portrait of a country at war and a family's battle to survive

Elikem married me in absentia; he did not come to our wedding' Afi Tekple is a young seamstress living in a small town in Ghana with her widowed mother. Even Afi does' t believe her future holds much excitement. Until one day she is offered a life-changing opportunity - a proposal of marriage from the ...

The only edition in print of the classic book at the center of Hugo Hamilton's highly anticipated novel, The Pages Joseph Roth's 1924 tale of a one-legged street musician defying his fate in postwar Vienna.
Andreas Pum, having lost his leg in World War I, is rewarded with a medal and a permit to support ...

Fleeing the dark undercurrents of contemporary life in Britain, Hilary Byrd takes refuge in Ooty, a hill station in South India. There he finds solace in life's simple pleasures, travelling by rickshaw around the small town with his driver Jamshed and staying in a mission house beside the local presbytery ...

A captivating saga set on the eve of WWII in Liverpool, where life for one girl is about to change forever.

In the thick of the Cold War, a betrayal at the highest level risks the lives of two courageous female spies: MI6's best Soviet agent and the CIA's newest Moscow recruit.

Combining the sticky sexual politics of Luster with the dizzying, perceptive intimacy of Cleanness, Little Rabbit is a wholly new kind of coming-of-age story about lust, punishment, artistic drive and desires that defy the hard-won boundaries of the self.