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Molly's Diary April 10th So, I ve finally done it. I ve house-swapped my little cottage in Australia for a snazzy bachelor pad in Chelsea. I can't wait to explore London. Most of all I m hoping to meet my dream man, my secret fantasy: a perfect English gentleman. Though I m starting to wonder whether ...

A feminist retelling of George Eliot's Daniel Deronda from the point-of-view of its fiery and fabulous heroine

August is an ungainly recluse with bright orange hair and sun-shy eyes, who hides his unnatural body away behind the counter of a Shepherd's Bush deli. As certain changes occur with the seasons, he begins to feel marvellous and, through a year's wonderful metamorphosis, August changes into himself.

Then a chance encounter with violence frightens, Bernie into taking lodgers, and two very different men enter her life, to change it forever.

Mara is a successful lawyer, and devoted wife and mother. Struggling with a devastating illness, she has set herself five days to make the ultimate decision for her family.

Scott lives a thousand miles away, and is a foster parent to a troubled eight-year-old. Scott is facing his own five day countdown ...

Mara Nichols, a terminally ill career woman, wife, and mother, and Scott Coffman, a middle-school teacher whose eight-year-old foster son is about to return to his former inmate mother, traverse the last five days they have to say goodbye to their loved ones.

It is the 17th century in quiet Castile, northern Spain. Giovanni, an orphan at an early age, is brought up with a duke's youngest son on the duke's country estate, where his father, a minor Italian noble, had been the administrator. A combination of his aristocratic environment and his own inferior ...

Every weekend, in basements and parking lots across the country, young men with good white-collar jobs and absent fathers take off their shoes and shirts and fight each other barehanded for as long as they have to. Then they go back to those jobs with blackened eyes and loosened teeth and the sense that ...

Fantasy adventure set in the magical land of Ramion and Kent village of Shoreham. When the storm summoned by the witch Griselda (unwitting tool of the Princess of the Night), attacks The Old Vicarage, the boys' father is carried off along with Griselda, Boris, the dwarves, and the boys' mother as a child ...

If you're on the list you're marked for death.

The envelope is unremarkable. But for the nine complete strangers who receive it - each of them recognising just one name, their own, on the enclosed list - it will be the most life altering letter they ever receive.

A sweeping historical adventure set during one of the most turbulent periods of British history - featuring a heroine you'll never forget...

'Excellent . But she is finding it hard to maintain.

Increasingly preoccupied by her son Tom's disappearance, Ruth is shaken when a new patient arrives at the unit - a young man who looks shockingly like him.

Bestseller Maureen Lee returns to Bootle in this heart-warming tale set between Liverpool and London in the post-war years.

SOON TO BE A MAJOR BBC ONE DRAMAA beautifully written love story set in 1960s Soho amid the revival of fascism.

A shocking, relentless, read-it-in-one-night debut novel.

Set against the backdrop of the tube bombings in London in 2005, Underground Fugue interweaves the stories of four characters who are dislocated by shock waves of personal loss, political violence, and, ultimately, betrayal. A powerful and moving novel, Underground Fugue skillfully weaves the stories ...

Abandoned as a newborn at the doors of the local YMCA and then bounced between foster homes, Shannon eventually finds stability in the home of Miranda, a single mother with a daughter of her own. But as Shannon grows, so do her questions. Will she ever belong? Who is her true family?

The new novel from the author of number one bestseller The Versions of Us

An epic Swedish spy thriller exposing a Europe-wide intelligence conspiracy, by the 'Swedish Edward Snowden'