Maria faces a stony path, but one she will surely climb to the summit. In this sumptuous and elegant novel you will taste the bigoli co l'arna, touch the mulberry leaves cut finer than organdie, and feel the strain of one woman attempting to keep her family safe in the most dangerous of times.

READ THE CONTROVERSIAL THRILLER THAT SHOCKED THE WORLDTHE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLERGLAMOUR'S WRITER OF THE YEARBy day Judith Rashleigh is a put-upon assistant at a London auction house. But after uncovering a dark secret at the heart of the art world, Judith is fired and her dreams of a better life are torn apart.

In November 1960, Frank Sinatra gave Marilyn Monroe a dog. His name was Maf. He had an instinct for the twentieth century. For politics. For psychoanalysis. For literature. For interior decoration. Maf the dog was with Marilyn for the last two years of her life.

A middle grade novel telling the story of Maggie Blue, an outsider both at home and at school, who sees a fellow classmate stolen through a window to another world by a wolf, and becomes determined to save her whatever the cost.

A tale of teenage romance in New England. It features the story of Jack and Maggie who are in love with the idea of being in love, looking ahead to marriage with hope and trepidation. It captures the intensity and the ordinariness of adolescent life, with its torments and complications. It also discusses about growing up in America.

During his tragically short life, Stephen Crane gained fame as a vividly distinctive writer. This collection of stories is replete with lively dialogue, ominous atmospheres, dry humour and graphic incidents.

A new collection of meditations and stories from the Booker Prize-winning author, Ben Okri. Illustrated by Rosemary Clunie.

A stunningly evocative eye-witness account of the revolutions that swept Communism from Eastern Europe in 1989, reissued with a new chapter to coincide with the thirtieth anniversary of these epochal events.

In this, her second novel, (awarded the 1967 John Llewellyn Rhys Prize) Angela Carter's brilliant imagination and starting intensity of style explore and extend the nature and boundaries of love.

A poetic, highly poisonous cocktail of alienated love, sex and pain and a young woman's haunting experience in an era of pornification, by one of Iceland's most provocative writers.

The twelfth instalment in the Merrily Watkins series: When a man's body is discovered near the picturesque town of Hay-on-Wye, his death appears to be 'unnatural' in every sense. Merrily Watkins is drafted in to investigate.

'This is a brilliant debut and I look forward to reading more of Jack Lark' Bernard Cornwell

Melvyn Bragg's highly-acclaimed bestselling historical novel, the story behind one of the 19th century's greatest scandals.

Born in Shanghai in 1915, son of a wealthy rubber merchant, Denton Welch was dispatched to an English boarding school after his mother's death. There he suffered, and soon absconded, forcing his father to bring him back to Shanghai where further travels and adventures ensued.

When someone starts killing women on the streets of Montmartre, Inspector Maigret - with his pipe, bowler hat and laconic manner - finds himself confounded. In the sweltering Paris summer heat, with the city in a state of siege, Maigret hatches a plan to lure the murderer out...

The profession he had always yearned for did not actually exist... he imagined a cross between a doctor and a priest, a man capable of understanding another's destiny at first glance. The very first investigation by eager young police secretary Jules Maigret leads him to a wealthy Paris family's dark secrets.

An anthology of diverse stories from black and brown, queer and working-class writers, featuring writers including Kit de Waal, Paul McVeigh, Neil Bartlett, Kerry Hudson, Bidisha, Philip Ridley, Golnoosh Nour, Juliet Jacques, Julia Bell, Elizabeth Baines, Jonathan Kemp, Keith Jarrett, Padrika Tarrant, Gaylene Gould, Neil McKenna.