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Quiet on set, please. Enter Lynette-actor, writer, director, showrunner, and star of the final movie in her head. Which is a farce, a comedy, a tragedy - or just her life. Here's what you need to know about Lynette: It's her birthday. She's waking up in a hotel room, hungover, in a dreary...

An extraordinary account of resistance, courage and survival in Putin's Russia, from a Pulitzer Prize-winning dissident with a uniquely hopeful message. Vladimir Kara-Murza has had a front-row seat on Russian history for a quarter of a century, both as witness and participant. He challenged...

'Maybe it was time I forgot about Nico Peterson, and his sister, and the Cahuilla Club, and Clare Cavendish. Clare? The rest would be out of my mind, but not the black-eyed blonde . . . ' In 1950s L.A., business is slow, and Private Detective Philip Marlowe is restless and lonely as ever. Then a...

'A thing to rejoce over.' (Evelyn Waugh) Illicit queer crushes on a family picnic. A nightclub singer lecturing her Communist nephew. Drunken feuds at the seedy South Kensington Hotel's staff dance. The eccentric spinsters tempting a little boy to grotesque acts. Welcome to the singular world of...

A 12th Century coming-of-age tale - vivid, sensual and darkly erotic - from a major literary talent. Eleven year old Astralabe's windswept days stretch by. Afternoons at the Abbey, trying to concentrate on his lessons; hours mesmerised by the lilac sky mirrored in the stingers washed up at his...

Boil the cat lady down to her essence, and you find the belief that you shouldn't trust a cat farther than you can throw it, you'd do well not trust a woman even that far, and it gets worse when they team up. What is it about women and cats? Historically, both have occupied an uncertain status...

I have met someone who remembers. Yesterday. That is to say, I met him yesterday. But he remembers yesterday, too. He remembers that we met yesterday. Tara Selter has lived the eighteenth of November 1,143 times when she notices a break in the pattern; a man has changed his shirt. The man is...

'At first, I took you for a charming jewel thief.' London, 1938. After attending a music hall matinee, Richard Hadley has an unexpected encounter with the mysterious Miss Lambert. Determined to defend her from the apparently hostile forces closing in, he pursues Miss Lambert to a grand hotel...

** AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER NOW ** Tara Selter has become someone new. It becomes clear just how ridiculous it is: life in progressive time. Or was. Before we came to a halt. How foolishly one can spend a life in a time that moves forward. The nonsense of the ceaseless grind. Tara has returned to...

The thrilling story of the enigmatic billionaire Pavel Durov - known as Russia's 'Mark Zuckerberg' - and his controversial social media platform, Telegram. 'A wonderful exposé. Killer App tells the story of how Telegram and its founder Pavel Durov shaped our dark, modern times . . . riveting'...

Meet Lisa. Smart, bookish, an only child. Having navigated school and adolescence - mainly under the influence of the Brontës and Jane Austen - she goes to college and falls in love with Eric, a fellow student, whose ambition pushes him towards a summer work placement in NY and then a Rhodes...

'Spellbinding, elegant, and urgent . . . Held me from the first moment to the last' Katherine Rundell The great quest of Augustine's life was for truth. This was his true fire. Today, we are still the product of Augustine's thinking, only most of us don't know it. Our world is shaped by his...

You thought you understood how the patriarchy runs our country. It's so much worse than you think. When the 'Garrick club, list of members' is leaked to Amelia Gentleman, it offers her a concise guide to Britain's male establishment: here high court judges dine with newspaper editors, senior...

FROM THE BOOKER PRIZE SHORTLISTED AUTHOR OF THE REST OF OUR LIVES 'Human, astonishing, superb; and sublime.' Guardian 'A formidable voice . . . the bastard son of Philip Roth and A. S. Byatt.' New Statesman 'A remarkable achievement.' Observer Taking place over the course of one year, shifting...

Untitled 4, a new HarperCollins book, full description to follow when available...

This is a history of the Second World War - as you have never heard it before. Dancer, singer and intelligence agent Josephine Baker German Nazi pianist Elly Ney British pianist Myra Hess Composer Avril Coleridge-Taylor Ballerina Tatiana Vecheslova Violinist Alma Rosé, conductor of the...