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The gripping new historical thriller from the award-winning author of Munich Wolf and Evil in High Places , perfect for fans of Philip Kerr, Robert Harris and Simon Scarrow. ON THE EVE OF WAR, A ROYAL GUEST IS LURED INTO HITLER'S DEADLY WEB . . . Munich, 1937. The Duke and Duchess of Windsor...

From the author of The Help. “You give a girl a taste of fresh air and then you take it away—she’ll grow fierce and wild to get it back.” Oxford, Mississippi, 1933. Eleven-year-old Meg Lefleur has learned the hard way to rely on no one. Ever since her beloved mother failed to come home...

They call them Crown Vic and Baby Blue… From the No.1 Sunday Times bestselling author of Atmosphere, Daisy Jones & The Six, and The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo comes a daring story of two friends chasing their biggest score yet – and risking everything that holds them together. As any good...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2025 Winner of the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction Winner of the Winston Graham Historical Prize 2025 December 1962, the West Country. Local doctor Eric Parry, mulling secrets, sets out on his rounds, while his pregnant wife sleeps on in the warmth of...

Adapted from the major television series created by Mark Gatiss - new season coming soon! London, 1946. Much of the capital, and indeed the country, remains beset by rationing and bomb damage. But for some there are other, more immediate concerns: crimes of a serious and sometimes deadly nature...

Series 1-5 of the groundbreaking BBC Radio 4 drama charting life on the home front during World War One First heard on radio between 4 August 2014 and 9 November 2018, each episode of Home Front is set exactly one hundred years before the broadcast date, and each follows one character’s day...

'One of the most ingenious crime writers around' Observer 'The figurehead of Nordic noir' Independent 'Mankell is in the first division of crime writing' The Times 'Extraordinary' Ian Rankin One day in 1947, Bertil Kras decides to leave his modest life in Stockholm and begin again - swapping his...

The multimillion-copy bestselling phenomenon and Reese Witherspoon Book Club pick. 'One of the greatest storytellers of our time' – Delia Owens, author of Where the Crawdads Sing Soon to be a major motion picture, Kristin Hannah's The Nightingale has captured the hearts of millions of readers...

This is where love leaves us • This is a story about life and death. Delores marries two different men in an attempt to find peace and happiness. William was her true love, and Cory was a path to a better life. Both relationships end suddenly which leaves William, Cory and Delores scrambling to find the real meaning of life. Their love is everlasting and carries on into the afterlife where they learn the real meaning of, "Till Death Do Us Part". Conundrum • Karl McTavish and Mr. Kolchak have a special relationship. Mr.

Will she pick true friendship or forbidden love? Escape to the world of the Staffordshire Potteries, from the award-winning writer Margaret Kaine. Josie and Georgina live on the same street but they’re worlds apart. Despite the stark divide of their social classes, they forge an unbreakable...

Can she ever forgive the mother who abandoned her? Escape to the world of the Staffordshire Potteries, from the award-winning writer Margaret Kaine. When young Polly Merton’s beloved grandfather dies, she is forced into sharing a home with the last person she expected: the mother who left her...

Meredith and Nina Whitson are as different as sisters can be. One stayed at home to raise her children and manage the family apple orchard; the other followed a dream and traveled the world to become a famous photojournalist. But when their beloved father falls ill, Meredith and Nina find themselves together again, standing alongside their cold, disapproving mother, Anya, who even now, offers no comfort to her daughters.

An unexpected baby. A life-changing decision… Escape to the world of the Staffordshire Potteries, from the award-winning writer Margaret Kaine. When eighteen-year-old Rebecca Lawson is orphaned in tragic circumstances, she is forced to live with her aunt and uncle, working at their East London...

Eye of the Needle, Ken Follett's historical thriller, is a heart-racingly exciting tale about the fate of the war resting in the hands of a master spy, his opponent and one brave woman. Victory Hangs in the Balance 1944. In the weeks leading up to D-Day the Allies are disguising their invasion...

The first in Ken Follett's breathtaking Century Trilogy, Fall of Giants is a captivating tale that follows five families through the world-shaking dramas of the First World War, the Russian Revolution, and the struggle for votes for women. A World in Chaos 1911, a thirteen-year-old boy, Billy...

Brought to you by Penguin. Cold War Moscow is a place smouldering with secrets. Gabriel Dax has been tasked with delivering a mysterious Blanco drawing to celebrated defector Kit Caldwell. But Caldwell is convinced the KGB suspects him of treachery, and he wants out now. When Gabriel is ordered...

A family secret. A century of heartache . . . The Girl on the Cliff is an evocative, moving story of family, loss and hope, from Lucinda Riley, the international bestselling author of The Seven Sisters series. After a devastating loss, Grania Ryan flees her life as an artist in New York and...

June 1944. When a Wehrmacht war crimes investigator and his escort are killed in an ambush, it looks like an opportunistic act of revenge by the Polish Resistance. But Jan Kalisz of the Warsaw Kripo, investigator and Polish double-agent, has his doubts. Fortunately, with the Red Army only a few hundred kilometres from the city, Kalisz’s boss, Hauptsturmführer Hoth, finds his faith in the Führer waning, and allows an investigation.

Brought to you by Penguin. AN EPIC NOVEL SET AGAINST THE BACKDROP OF THE 1980S SPACE SHUTTLE PROGRAM ABOUT THE EXTRAORDINARY LENGTHS WE GO TO LIVE AND LOVE BEYOND OUR LIMITS. In the summer of 1980, astrophysics professor Joan Goodwin begins training to be an astronaut at Houston’s Johnson...

Jackdaws by Ken Follett is an irresistible novel of the French Resistance, love, courage and revenge set in the Second World War, read by Emilia Fox, who expertly brings the story to life. A Failed Mission Two weeks before D-Day, the French Resistance try to destroy a telephone exchange vital to...