Showing results for "The Winner" in Historical Fiction

'Truly extraordinary books are rare, and this is one of them' – Roddy Doyle 'His [Dominic Hofman] performance is terrific: variously wry, poignant and thoughtful as he imbues Jim with the humanity and agency denied to him by Twain' – The Guardian, Audiobook of the Week James is a profound...

Tender, moving, full of warmth and crackling with humour and the love of family, the exquisite new novel from the winner of the Orwell Prize for Fiction and the Irish Book of the Year... Something terrible has happened to Jack but no one seems to want to talk about it. His uncles can tell him...

PULITZER PRIZE WINNER NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER This "powerful, mesmerizing story” (People) is an unflinching look into the abyss of slavery, from the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner. With an afterword by the author and a new introduction by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers. “A masterwork...

Brought to you by Penguin. WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION 2019 SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2018 THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A wondrous, exhilarating novel about nine strangers brought together by an unfolding natural catastrophe An artist inherits a hundred years of...

**WINNER OF THE HUGO AWARD FOR BEST NOVEL 2026** 'A wildly inventive, truly magical tour de force' – Ava Reid, bestselling author of A Study in Drowning An instant Sunday Times bestseller, The Everlasting is a time-travelling, genre-defying, utterly fantasical quest of love and endurance. Alix...

Winner of the 1970 lost Man Booker prize in 2010. Major Brendan Archer travels to Ireland - to the Majestic Hotel and to the fiancée he acquired on a rash afternoon's leave three years ago. Despite her many letters, the lady herself proves elusive, and the Major's engagement is short-lived. But...

Don't miss Stacey Halls' captivating new novel THE HOUSEHOLD - available to buy now! *WINNER of the WOMEN'S PRIZE FUTURES AWARD* A Waterstones Best Book of the Year Longlisted for the Walter Scott Prize Longlisted for the Portico Prize 'Highly atmospheric and tense' Richard Osman From the...

'A MASTERPIECE OF MEDIEVAL DARK FICTION' Christopher Buehlman, author of Between Two Fires ***WINNER OF THE WORLD FANTASY AWARD*** From the million-copy-bestselling M. R. Carey comes an enthrallingly dark medieval tale - a story of twisted folklore, macabre magic and the strangest of found...

** WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2021 ** This audiobook includes bonus content of Damon Galgut in conversation with Ted Hodgkinson, Head of Literature and Spoken Word at the Southbank Centre. There is nothing unusual or remarkable about the Swart family, oh no, they resemble the family from the...

'A gripping murder mystery and a vivid recreation of Paris under German Occupation.' ANDREW TAYLOR *WINNER OF THE HWA GOLD CROWN AWARD FOR BEST HISTORICAL FICTION* *SHORTLISTED FOR THE CWA HISTORICAL DAGGER AWARD* 'Terrific' SUNDAY TIMES, Best Books of the Month 'A thoughtful, haunting thriller'...

THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER LOCUS AWARD WINNER FOR BEST SCIENCE FICTION HUGO AWARD FINALIST FOR BEST NOVEL NEBULA AWARD FINALIST FOR BEST NOVEL LONGLISTED FOR THE GOLDSBORO GLASS BELL AWARD WINNER OF THE LIBBY AWARD FOR BEST SCIENCE FICTION 'This one has it all' GEORGE R. R. MARTIN 'As...

Bloomsbury presents Afterlives by Abdulrazak Gurnah, read by Damian Lynch. BY THE WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE 2021 'One of Africa's greatest living writers' Giles Foden 'Exquisite' Telegraph ‘A remarkable novel, by a wondrous writer’ Philippe Sands 'To read Afterlives is to be...

Brought to you by Penguin. WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2024 Sixteen-year-old Sashi wants to become a doctor. But over the next decade, as a vicious civil war tears through her hometown of Jaffna, her dream takes her on a different path as she sees those around her, including her four...

Brought to you by Penguin. WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE 2024 Like a long winter’s dream, this haunting and visionary new novel from 2024 Nobel Prize winner Han Kang takes us on a journey from contemporary South Korea into its painful history Beginning one morning in December, We Do...

Brought to you by Penguin. A once-in-a-generation series, Ali Smith's Seasonal quartet is a tour-de-force about love, time, art, politics, and how we live now. In the present, Sacha knows the world's in trouble. Her brother Robert just is trouble. Their mother and father are having trouble...

'In Detective Eddie Giral, Chris Lloyd has created a flawed hero not just for occupied Paris, but for our own times, too' KATHERINE STANSFIELD Paris, 1940. As the city adjusts to life under Nazi occupation, Detective Eddie Giral struggles to reconcile his job as a policeman with his new role...

Enter the Hundred Isles, where ships made from the bones of extinct dragons battle for supremacy on the high seas. Our hero Meas Giryn must unite a crew of condemned criminals for a suicide mission when the first live dragon in centuries is spotted in far off waters.... From David Gemmell, Kitschie and British Fantasy Award-nominated RJ Barker, author of Age of Assassins.

*Winner of the CWA Historical Dagger 2023* 'A great insight into Renaissance Florence. What I love about these books is the seamless weaving of factual history with a great story' – Abir Mukherjee Florence. Spring, 1537. When Cesare Aldo investigates a report of intruders at a convent in the...

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize--a powerful love story set against the backdrop of the Civil War, from the author of The Secret Chord. From Louisa May Alcott's beloved classic Little Women, Geraldine Brooks has animated the character of the absent father, March, and crafted a story "filled with the...

The Sultan secretly commissions a great book: a celebration of his life and the Ottoman Empire, to be illuminated by the best artists of the day - in the European manner. In Istanbul at a time of violent fundamentalism, however, this is a dangerous proposition. Even the illustrious circle of...