`A lovely first novel - subtly sexy and crammed with fascinating detail of political high life. Sandra Howard has created an enchanting heroine out of a married minister' JILLY COOPER
The first single-volume biography of Berlin, one of the world's great cities - told via twenty-one portraits, from medieval times to the twenty-first century.
An explosive political drama - from Whitehall to the slums of Mumbai - by Vince Cable, a politician with first-hand knowledge of the intrigues and machinations he writes about.
An elderly lady offers a young woman a piece of cake. She accepts. The lady resembles the Austrian Empress Elisabeth and lives with her servant in an apartment full of bizarre souvenirs. More invitations follow. Without realizing, the young woman has become the lady's accomplice. Does she realize she is losing control?
These are not fictions. Nor are they testimonies from some distant, brutal past, but the frighteningly common experiences of Europe's new underclass - its refugees.
'Raine sometimes complains that nothing exciting is ever gonna happen in Grace again. A model student and musical prodigy, she's a ray of light in the struggling small town of Grace, Alabama - especially compared to her troubled sister, Raine.
Nine-year-old Louis Drax is a problem child: bright, precocious, deceitful, and dangerously, disturbingly, accident prone. When he falls off a cliff into a ravine, the accident seems almost predestined. Louis miraculously survives - but the family has been shattered.
'Booker's fast paced, twisting thrillers are a must-read for anyone who loves a good page turner' Simon Kernick'A must-read' Mark BillinghamKarl Savage is dead.
Science fiction Grand Master Anne McCaffrey and her work, particularly her Dragonriders of Pern series, are beloved by generations of readers. This title pays tribute to science fiction great Anne McCaffrey's life, legacy, and work from the writers who knew her best.
A panoramic historical epic and an unforgettable love story from the author of the Costa-winning The Tenderness of Wolves, for fans of Sarah Perry, Jessie Burton and Donna Tartt
Set in Glasgow and a remote "hippy" community on the west coast of Scotland, this is a story of love, rivalries, ecological politics, murder, suicide, high values and low commedy. The hapless and slightly pompous protagonist, Jonathan Armour does not always understand the story he is telling, but he tells it beautifully.