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A History of 20th Century Britain

by Andrew Marr

Between the death of Queen Victoria and the turn of the Millennium, Britain has been utterly transformed by an extraordinary century of war and peace. A History of 20th Century Britain collects together for...

Time's Echo

by Pamela Hartshorne

York , 1577: Hawise Aske smiles at a stranger in the market, and sets in train a story of obsession and sibling jealousy, of love and hate and warped desire. Drowned as a witch, Hawise pays a high price for...

In The Shadow of Lady Jane

by Edward Charles

It is April 1551. While the family of Lord Henry Grey are visiting their Devon estate, the Grey sisters are saved from drowning by a local medical apprentice, Richard Stocker. Little does Richard know that this...

A History of Modern Britain

by Andrew Marr

A History of Modern Britain confronts head-on the victory of shopping over politics. It tells the story of how the great political visions of New Jerusalem or a second Elizabethan Age, rival idealisms, came...

Confessions of an Essex Girl

by Becci Fox

'So you think because you've watched TOWIE you've got us Essex Girls figured out? You don't know the half of it. Events in this book are so shameless that I've had to change all the names, but everything that...

Lights of Liverpool

by Ruth Hamilton

Three families in post-war Liverpool, connected by history, separated by circumstance. The O'Neils, who have lost brothers and sons into the bowels of London's East End, keep watch over their one remaining young...

The Playdate

by Louise Millar

Single mother Callie has come to rely heavily on her best friend Suzy. But Callie suspects Suzy's life isn't as simple as it seems. It's time she pulled away - going back to work is just the first step towards...

The Lost Library

by A. M. Dean

HE WAS THE KEEPER - Arno Holmstrand is about to die, his life cut short by an organization intent on laying claim to the secrets he has spent a lifetime guarding: the location of the lost Library of Alexandria,...

Blue-Eyed Son

by Nicky Campbell

‘Blue-Eyed Son is a personal history, but its themes – family, self-identity and filial love – are universal’ Daily Mail Raised in a comfortable middle-class home, Nicky Campbell’s Scottish Protestant...

One Man's Meat (Short Reads)

by Jeffrey Archer

Taken from Jeffrey Archer's third collection of short stories, Twelve Red Herrings, comes this irresistible, witty and ingenious short read.

When Michael Whitaker spots the stunning Anna Townsend on the steps...

The Saturday Supper Club

by Amy Bratley

Wanted: four amateur cooks to compete in a supper club contest Rules: four strangers, four weeks, four houses, four dinner parties You might win: a cash prize You might lose: your heart Eve had her world torn...

The Thieves' Labyrinth

by James McCreet

A death on Waterloo bridge, a body in the river near Wapping, a lady robbed on Wych Street – all common enough daily incidents in early Victorian London. But when an outrageous theft is committed at the port,...

Overkill

by James Barrington

A group of disgruntled Russian supremos decide the time has come to deploy their secret nuclear arsenal, and so team up with al-Qaeda in order to neutralise America and take political and economic control of...

Climbing the Stairs

by Margaret Powell

From the grand houses of Brighton to imposing London mansions, life as a kitchen maid could be exhausting and demoralising. It’s not just being at the beck and call of the people upstairs, when even the children...

Mummydaddy

by Jeremy Howe

In the summer of 1992, Jeremy Howe and his wife, Lizzie, were tending to last-minute holiday preparations. Lizzie was leaving to teach at a summer school before she could join Jeremy and their two daughters,...

Elizabeth I

by Margaret George

1588. In the height of her power is the legendary Elizabeth Tudor, history's most enigmatic queen. She is the virgin with many suitors; the victor of the Armada who hated war; the jewel-bedecked woman always...

Die Twice

by Andrew Grant

Cooler than Bond. Deadlier than Bourne. The second spy thriller in the David Trevellyan series. Obliged to leave New York City in the aftermath of his previous mission, David Trevellyan is summoned to the British...

The Wedding Writer

by Susan Schneider

Wedding writers face particular challenges, envy being one of them, especially if the writer happens to be single, as Lucky is. Who are all these smug people, thinking life is just one great big happily ever...

What Will Survive

by Mark Gartside

Graham Melton was a normal fifteen-year-old until he met Charlotte Marshall over a can of warm lager at his best-friend’s party in 1985. It was love at first sight, and teenage life was never going to be the...

Guard a Silver Sixpence

by Felicity Davis

Felicity's earliest memories are of pain and confusion, of being beaten daily by her nan and watching her mum being beaten too. She ran away from home at fifteen. At thirty-six she was a single mother of three...