\'Part-biography, part-social history, Catland is its own breed of historical investigation\' Amanda Foreman Some called it a craze. To others it was a cult.

\'Just incredible\' Naomi Klein \'Gripping and shocking...with the pace of a thriller\' The Times A New York Times bestseller, The Outlaw Ocean is a riveting, adrenalin-fuelled tour of a vast, lawless and rampantly criminal world that few have ever seen: the high seas.

‘Loved it from start to finish, was hooked all the way.’‘This book deserves to be read by everyone.’‘This book is filled with amazing one liners that I would legit tattoo on my forehead!’‘Brilliant, thought provoking.’‘Literally dying for more.’Goodreads ReviewsLegendborn meets Percy Jackson in this dark and thrilling debut fantasy romance.When consumed by shadow, even the

LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2023 The darkly comic new novel from the bestselling author of The Portable Veblen \'Incredibly funny and very moving’ BELLA MACKIE \'A blissful novel that I want to give to everyone I love’ NINA STIBBE ‘Even funnier, even more romantic than McKenzie’s wonderful last’ KAREN JOY FOWLER Penny Rush has problems. Her marriage is over, she’s quit her job, her

‘Jane Robinson is brilliant at putting the women back into history and her biography of Barbara Leigh Bodichon, a Victorian feminist we should all be grateful to, is as entertaining as it is necessary.’ - Daisy GoodwinYou have probably not heard of Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon but you certainly should have done.Name any \'modern\' human rights movement, and she was a pioneer: feminism, equal opportunities,

Under the watchful eye of The Company, three characters - Grayson, Morse and Chen - shapeshifters, amorphous, part human, part extensions of the landscape, make their way through forces that would consume them. A blue fox, a giant fish and language stretc

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\'The later Renko novels are stark, spare and beautiful, like trees in winter. Martin Cruz Smith does more on a page than most writers manage in a chapter.

\' Haunted is a wonderful book: part history, part rumination on life, and, of course a haunting book about ghosts .... beautifully written, fascinating, deeply moving and thought-provoking.\' - James Holland\'A proper page-turner .... A fascinating tangle of witches and mermaids, drowned fishers and dead warriors, ghostly planes and spectral horses .\' - Christopher Somerville, author of Ships of

\'A beautiful book about love, loss and regret\' ObserverWhen the world is still counting the cost of the Second World War and the Iron Curtain has descended, young Roland Baines\'s life is turned upside down. Stranded at boarding school, his vulnerability attracts his piano teacher, Miriam Cornell, leaving scars as well as a memory of love that will never fade.

A deserting soldier treks through the torn-up countryside and abandoned villages, trying to distance himself from the atrocities of war. An elderly man sits beneath lime trees, remembering his first sexual encounter one summer night with a female stranger who whispered another man\'s name.

TWO EXTRAORDINARY PEOPLE. A LOVE THAT DRAWS THEM TOGETHER.

In this incredibly moving and powerful story about climate change by one of France\'s greatest writers for children, the world is run by !ndustry and the only thing that matters is to buy, buy, buy. People live in crowded cities where cars are stacked vertically and shopping centres run miles into the sky.

Victor Dalmau is a young doctor when he is caught up in the Spanish Civil War, a tragedy that leaves his life - and the fate of his country - forever changed. Together with his sister-in-law, he is forced out of his beloved Barcelona and into exile in Chile.

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION 2019 SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2018 THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A wondrous, exhilarating novel about nine strangers brought together by an unfolding natural catastrophe \'Really, just one of the best novels, period\' Ann Patchett \'The best book I\'ve read in ten years\' Emma Thompson \'Dazzlingly written\' Robert Macfarlane \'Breathtaking\' Barbara

It is Brighton, 1959, and the theatre at the end of the pier is having its best summer season in years. Ronnie, a brilliant young magician, and Evie, his dazzling assistant, are top of the bill, drawing audiences each night.

An extraordinary new novel by the Pulitzer Prize-winning, Number One New York Times bestselling author of Olive Kitteridge and My Name is Lucy Barton \'A terrific writer\' Zadie Smith \'A superbly gifted storyteller and a craftswoman in a league of her own\' Hilary Mantel \'A novel to treasure\' Sunday Times Olive, Again follows the blunt, contradictory yet deeply loveable Olive Kitteridge as she grows

The government has cleaned up Harare for the Queen of England\'s visit. \'The townships are too full of people, they said, gather them up and put them in the places the Queen will not see.\' Four waves of people have settled on Easterly Farm since then, living on the margins in homes that will soon be destroyed.

\'Highly original, deeply moving, simultaneously delicate yet hard hitting\' Claire Kilroy\'Brilliant, provocative, and darkly funny\' Sarah Dunn\'Unique, refreshing and revelatory ... Reads the zeitgeist perfectly\' Helen Cullen\'Intriguing, fresh, and satisfyingly complex; it makes you think, and it makes you feel\' Lesley GlaisterA provocative, tender and darkly funny novel that explores the painful

\'An American masterpiece\' AS ByattWITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY BOOKER PRIZE WINNER BERNARDINE EVARISTOSethe is now miles away from Sweet Home - the farm where she was kept as a slave for many years. Unable to forget the unspeakable horrors that took place there, Sethe is haunted by the violent spectre of her dead child, the daughter who died nameless and whose tombstone is etched with a single word,