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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...

His memory lasts eighty minutes. The bond they form lasts far longer. He is a brilliant maths Professor with a peculiar problem: ever since a traumatic head injury, he has lived with only eighty minutes of short-term memory. She is an astute young Housekeeper, with a ten-year-old son, hired to...

The epic finale in award-winning global phenomenon, The Torch Trilogy. Who will triumph? Those with songlight, or those without? LOVE. POWER. REVOLUTION . . . We can see freedom ahead, we can smell it on the air. Together, our songlight gathers force. As gunfire rages all around us, we find our...

‘A classic for now as Plath’s The Bell Jar has been for the decades behind us‘ – Ali Smith How do we piece our lives back together? A young woman has a psychotic episode, during which she offends and alienates everyone in her life. She desperately needs to start again but has no idea how...

THE MILLION COPY #1 BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF BUTTER IS BACK WITH A NEW NOVEL OF OBSESSION ‘Tender and thrilling it’s Yuzuki at her best’ ELLE ‘Deliciously satisfying’ iPAPER ‘Enjoyable and addictive’ INDEPENDENT ‘Fantastically dark’ ERIN KELLY Eriko really wouldn't mind being...

*Not Suitable For Vegetarians* Ed is in trouble with the yakuza. He's gambled away all his money and his family is at risk. But just as he’s about to lose everything, he receives an offer he can’t refuse. A reclusive billionaire is looking for a private chef, but some offers are too good to...

Brought to you by Penguin. FROM THE MULTI-MILLION-COPY BESTSELLING ORIGINAL HEALING AUTHOR Much-loved modern classic by the author of WHAT YOU ARE LOOKING FOR IS IN THE LIBRARY for fans of BEFORE THE COFFEE GETS COLD Across a bridge, in view of cherry blossom lies the Marble Cafe where a woman...

Brought to you Penguin. ‘Kabahiko is an amazing hippo. People say that if you touch the area of his body that you want to make better on yours, he’ll provide a cure' Nestling at the bottom of a five-storey apartment block is the children's playground, Hinode Park. If you look to the side...

Brought to you by Penguin. Four women spark a revolution on a Caribbean island – the electrifying new novel from the Costa-winning author of The Mermaid of Black Conch. Early one morning, at the close of St Colibri’s carnival, a young female steel-pan player is found dead beneath a...

When the stakes are at their highest, how low would you go? _____________ Shogo Hatano has beaten thousands of applicants to become one of six final candidates in the running for a graduate position at Japan's most exclusive tech company. Only one will be chosen - a decision made by the...

Brought to you by Penguin. From the multi-million-copy bestselling author of LONELY CASTLE IN THE MIRROR and LOST SOULS MEET UNDER A FULL MOON Ayumi is a young man with special powers to bring back the dead to meet the living. A gift passed down in his family, he is able to arrange meetings...

LOVE. POWER. RESISTANCE ... In a world where songlight is either your greatest gift or your greatest curse, the Brethren are tightening their power. But Torches are finding ways to commune. LARK is on the run. She has lost all contact with Rye, but nothing is going to stop her finding him...

THE GLOBAL BESTSELLER By the multi-million-copy author of WHAT YOU ARE LOOKING FOR IS IN THE LIBRARY for fans of BEFORE THE COFFEE GETS COLD Tucked behind the trees in a quiet neighborhood in Tokyo, the beloved Marble café offers a cup of warm, healing matcha to all who pass through its doors...

Do you know someone who just seems to have all the luck? What if science-backed evidence showed that luck is, in fact, something that we have more control over than we think? A seemingly unscientific and perhaps unlikely subject for a neuroscientist, Nobuko Nakano challenges the idea that our...

Brought to you by Penguin. THE UNFORGETTABLE MILLION-COPY JAPANESE BESTSELLER BY THE AUTHOR OF LONELY CASTLE IN THE MIRROR Brimming with suspense and heartbreak, the million-copy Japanese fantasy mystery for fans of BEFORE THE COFFEE GETS COLD and LONELY CASTLE IN THE MIRROR Is there anyone you...

Brought to you by Penguin. With the Second World War only a few years in the past, and Japan still reeling from its effects, two sisters - born to the same father but different mothers - struggle to make sense of the new world in which they are coming of age. Asako, the younger, has become...

Millennia have passed since the dharma yudhha of the cousins shook the land of Bharata. But this history of our ancestors continues to fascinate us. Even today, we have passionate discussions about the people and their actions in the epic, fervidly defending our favourites and denouncing others...

Surveillance Zone gives you an exclusive, behind-the-scenes look into the mysterious world of private-sector espionage, surveillance detection, and covert protective operations that take place right here at home, under most people's noses. You'll discover how corporate sector surveillance and surveillance detection work, what real-world special operations are like, how covert operators blend into different environments, and much more.

Can two very different women put aside their differences to save the bookstore they love? The Japanese bestseller that kicked off a seven-book series - adapted for TV and 200,000 copies sold Riko Nishioka is assistant manager of the flagship Pegasus bookstore in Kichijoji. After working her way...

Available in English for the very first time, a powerful, poignant novel about three half sisters in post-war Japan, from the Nobel Prize-winning author of Snow Country. With the Second World War only a few years in the past, and Japan still reeling from its effects, two sisters—born to the...