The first novel in world renowned film-maker, Ingmar Bergman's trilogy of novels plotting the fractious marriage of his parentsIn 1909, Ingmar Bergman's mother and father first meet.
Alice Vavasor cannot decide whether to marry her ambitious but violent cousin George or the upright and gentlemanly John Grey - and finds herself accepting and rejecting each of them in turn.
Plantagenet Palliser, the Duke of Omnium and former Prime Minister of England, is widowed and wracked by grief. Struggling to adapt to life without his beloved Lady Glencora, he works hard to guide and support his three adult children. Palliser soon discovers, however, that his own plans for them are very different from their desires...
After hitchhiking from Brazil to nearly halfway around the world, Paulo stumbles across Karla, a young Dutch woman and like-minded soul, in Amsterdam's famous Dam Square. Drawing on the rich experience of his own life, Paulo Coelho relives the dreams of a generation that longed for peace and challenged the established social order.
A SUNDAY TIMES TOP 100 NOVEL OF THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY Arlington Park is an ordinary English suburb. Over the course of a single day, the novel moves from one household to another, revealing its characters: Juliet, enraged at the victory of men over women in family life; Maisie, struggling to accept provincial life;
One of Barack Obama's best books of 2018, the New York Times bestselling novel about contemporary America from a bold new Native American voice`A thunderclap' Marlon James`Astonishing' Margaret Atwood, via Twitter`Pure soaring beauty' Colm ToibinJacquie Red Feather is newly sober and hoping to reconnect with her estranged family.
FROM THE MAN BOOKER-SHORTLISTED AUTHOR OF EILEENTHE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'Savage, funny, frequently on the verge of teetering into lunacy... My Year of Rest and Relaxation is a non-negotiable in your holiday carry-on this summer' VogueIt's the year 2000 in a city aglitter with wealth and possibility;
For readers who enjoyed 'The Snow Child' and 'The Glass Palace' this is an intoxicating and lush love story, set in present-day New York and 1950s Burma.
Reluctant coroner to the Lao People's Democratic Republic, Dr Siri Paiboun has been despatched to the country's mountainous north where the sudden appearance of a mummified arm protruding from a concrete path laid in front of the President's new mansion has caused an understandable degree of embarrassment
'A small miracle' The New York Times`For a very long time, the days went by, each just like the day before, then I began to think, and everything changed'Deep underground, thirty-nine women live imprisoned in a cage.
A celebration of working-class voices, bringing together established and emerging writers including Kit de Waal, Malorie Blackman, Cathy Rentzenbrink, Louise Doughty and Lisa McInerney
1901, Wiltshire. Young Kathleen Keller is being forced into marriage with a man she despises by her cruel father. In an act of desperation, she runs away in a bid for a safer life. But when tragedy strikes, Kathleen is left vulnerable and one man threatens the fragile peace she has made for herself.
1916: Bella is working as a Voluntary Aid driving ambulances in England when she gets engaged to Philip, on leave from fighting in France. His family strongly disapprove of her but the two of them are happy together. When the worst happens, Bella must manage on her own, though there are shocks and dangers she did not foresee ahead.
It's Armistice Day in London, but enemy forces have infiltrated the bureau and sent Georgie's father into hiding. In danger herself, Georgie knows there's only one place where she'll be safe: Honeyfield. But with traitors in the bureau, she doesn't know who to trust. Can she get to Honeyfield before her father's enemies find her?