The daughters of gentlemen

A doctor has set up a waiting mortuary on the borders of Kensal Green Cemetery. He collapses and dies, apparently of natural causes, but on the same night one of his most reliable employees goes missing. Frances Doughty, a young sleuth with a reputation for solving knotty cases, is engaged to find the missing man, but nothing is as it seems.

An atmospheric, vibrant and moving tale of pain and passion at the heart of war-torn Spain, from the million-copy bestselling author of The Island

'Sweeping, magnificently detailed and ambitious' The Sunday Times

The acclaimed new novel from the million-copy bestselling author: 'Fascinating and moving... Hislop writes unforgettably about Cyprus and its people' The Times

A gothic portrait of a city ravaged by war and struck by vice and disease from the highly-lauded author of The Blood of Heaven.

Features the nature and landscapes of Scotland as well as an incisive sense of our domestic realities.

The ultimate 'bedside book', an anthology of poems, stories, letters to read in anticipation of a good night's sleep

'Intricate, beautifully observed and with a painter's eye for imagery, in these stories Hislop evokes Greece, its people, its customs and traditions with a sensitivity that reveals her deep knowledge of not just the place but also the human condition' Express

A mysterious island. An abandoned orphanage. And a strange collection of very curious photographs. It all waits to be discovered in Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, an unforgettable novel that mixes fiction and photography in a thrilling reading experience.

Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children has remained on the US bestseller list for 14 weeks and has sold over 27,000 copies in the UK

The Peculiar Children are back in the third installment in the bestselling series of YA novels by Ransom Riggs; now in paperback!

Featuring new details about Virginia Woolf's homes and personal life, this engaging biography offers a fresh insight into her work, focusing on how place as much as imagination fashioned her writing.

100 short stories written by women, selected and introduced by one of the nation's favourite novelists.

The LOVE collection from Victoria Hislop's THE STORY, 100 short stories written by women, selected and introduced by one of the nation's favourite novelists.

THE LIVES OF WOMEN collection from Victoria Hislop's THE STORY, 100 short stories written by women, selected and introduced by one of the nation's favourite novelists.

"A sultry tale of suspense and murder"--Cover.

Ambrose Bukowski is a twelve-year-old with a talent for mismatching his clothes, for saying the wrong thing at the worst possible time, and for words. In short, he's a self-described nerd. Making friends is especially hard because he and his overprotective mother, Irene, have had to move so often. Then Ambrose strikes up an unlikely friendship...

The novelized autobiography of the Katie King spirit: a tale of desire and delusion, belief and illusion.