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Us deals with a family's struggle to survive and keep a grip on sanity when the unspeakable is spoken and its darkest secrets come to light.

Four months have passed since merciless serial killer Ethan Hunt was captured. In that time Marcus Kline has been caring for his cancer-stricken wife, and trying to rebuild his life - and the lives of those around him.

Ever since Jackie moved to her uncle's sleepy farming town, she's been flirting way too much--and with her own cousin, Marcus.

Sometimes the only choice is an escape to perdition..... Prague 2015. Herbert Biely, aged hero of the Prague Spring, stands on the brink of an historic victory, poised to reunite the Czech and Slovak Republics twenty-six years after the Velvet Revolution. The imminent Czech elections are the final stage ...

Wormwood and his colleagues are back - as diabolically clever as ever.

After eighteen years as a political prisoner in the Bastille the aging Dr Manette is finally released and reunited with his daughter in England. They're two very different men, Charles Darnay, an exiled French aristocrat, and Sydney Carton, a disreputable but brilliant English lawyer, become enmeshed ...

A romantic gem from the author of BLUE REMEMBERED HEELS and the winner of the RNA's 2007 Romance Prize.

In a debut collection by an award-winning short story writer, a scout troop of African-American girls is confronted by a group of disabled white girls and a young man considers his allegiance to his father during the Million Man March in Washington.

Don't Cry is Mary Gaitskill's first collection of stories in over ten years, following the tremendous success of her previous collections, Bad Behaviour and Because They Wanted To.

A woman with nothing to lose has everything to gain...

Secrets and subterfuge abound in Regency Newmarket. Caroline Fortune asks for little more than to train horses and continue her stealthy progress towards independence. To this end she projects a cheerfully argumentative persona in the hope that the potential suitors dredged up by her mother will all leave her alone.

A clever, entertaining novel about the friendship between an old woman and a beautiful young man by one of Britain's finest novelists

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2020 JHALAK PRIZE

1964. Ceylon is on the brink of change. But Kairo is at a loose end. School is closed, the government is in disarray, the press is under threat and the religious right are flexing their muscles. Kairo's hard-working mother blows off steam at her cha-cha-cha classes; ...

Based on the author's own experiences, this accurate, evocative portrait of 19th-century English rural life explores the conflicts of love and loyalty and the friction between desire and moral responsibility.

After an unspecified family disaster, the protagonist Lucy Snowe travels from her native England to the fictional French-speaking city of Villette to teach at a girls' school, where she is drawn into adventure and romance.

Yuki is visiting her sister in the UK, but is also secretly retracing their mother's footsteps from a holiday ten years before. Something terrible happened not long after her mother's visit and Yuki wants to find out the cause. With the help of a local girl, Denny, she sets out to unearth and explain her family's secrets . . .

A gripping thriller based on the little-known facts of a real-life dirty-bomb attack on Britain

A sweeping, momentous novel that shines a light on war, and the individual lives that go on long after the drones have left the skies, from the National Book Award-winning author of Redeployment

A darkly playful novel, filled with mystery, revenge, outlandish killings, greed and jealousy, from the multi-award-winning author

The New York Times bestselling and National Book Award-winning story collection which takes readers to the frontline of the Iraq wars. 'A must read' Guardian