Brought to you by Penguin.'Well-being for all is not a dream.'In this brilliantly enjoyable, challenging rallying-cry of a book, Kropotkin lays out the heart of his anarchist beliefs - beliefs which surged around the world in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and which have a renewed relevance and poignancy today. Humane, thoughtful - but also a devastating critique of how modern society is organized (with the brutal, narrow few clinging onto their wea...

How far must you run to leave the past behind you?It is 1919 and the end of the war has not brought peace for Emeline Vane. Lost in grief, she is suddenly alone at the heart of a depleted family. She can no longer cope. And as everything seems to be slipping beyond her control, in a moment of desperation, she boards a train and runs away.Fifty years later, a young solicitor on his first case finds Emeline’s diary. What Bill Perch finds in the tattered pages...

Brought to you by Penguin.We're constantly told the same things about the monarchy:But the monarchy is good for tourism..It isn't! Evidence points to some royal weddings actually having a negative impact on inbound tourism.But the monarchy makes a big difference to charity..Of the approx. 1,200 charities with a royal patron, 74% had no contact with the...

Paris, 1909: A forbidden love. A devastating betrayal. A secret as sweet – and as bitter – as the most decadent chocolate…In the windows of Paris’s Pâtisserie Clermont, chocolate éclairs gleam, caramel glistens, and macarons shimmer. For a poor railway worker Guillaume, this sugar-dusted world feels impossibly out of reach.When Gui becomes an apprentice at the patisserie, he is captivated by more than its exquisite confections. Jeanne, the owner’s daughter,...

Spain, 1928. One postcard. A lifetime of lies. A woman running from the truth.In the dead of night, Alejandra flees.Accused of murder, she crosses the sea to Tangier – the glittering port city on the edge of two worlds. There, she hides in the maze-like streets, where the air is scented with saffron and heat clings to her skin.Winding alleys conceal danger, every shadow hides a secret – and Alejandra can be whoever she chooses to be. But her new lif...

A distant land. A dangerous husband. A forbidden love.The year is 1912. Nineteen-year-old Maisie Porter watches from the deck of the SS Oceanic as England fades from view. Her destination is Buccaneer Bay in Australia’s far north-west. Her fate: marriage to distant cousin Maitland Sinclair, a man she has never met.When Maisie arrives in her new home, she finds a stifling small town bound by Victorian morals. Shocked at her new husband’s callous behaviour to...

A gripping mystery with a heart-breaking revelation, The Secrets Between Us is a sublimely satisfying story of lost love, betrayal and the dangers of war.Perfect for fans of Kate Morton's The Lake House and Dinah Jeffries' Before the Rains.High in the mountains in the South of France, eighteen-year-old Ceci Corvin is trying hard to carry on as normal. But in 1943, there is no such thing as normal; especially not f...

A thoughtful, articulate and important book about the rise of English nationalism and the impending breakup of the United Kingdom from one of the finest BBC journalists of the last twenty years.How Britain Ends is a book about history, but also about the strange, complicated identity of Britishness. In the past, it was possible to live with delightful confusion: one could be English, or British, Scottish or Irish and a citizen/subject of the United Kingdom (or Great Britain). For y...

Brought to you by Penguin.George Street, West Yorkshire, houses a gleaming, brand-new telephone exchange where a group of capable girls works the complicated electrical switchboards. Among them are Cynthia, Norma and Millicent, who relish the busy, efficient atmosphere and the independence and friendship their jobs have given them.But when Millicent connects a telephone call for an old friend, and listens in to the conversation - b...

"What is Property? An Inquiry into the Principle of Right and of Government" is a seminal work by French philosopher and socialist Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, first published in 1840. In this book, Proudhon famously declares that "property is theft," arguing against the concept of property rights as conventionally understood and critiquing the economic and social injustices they perpetuate. Proudhon examines the nature of property and its relation to freedom and justice, challenging contempora...

From the acclaimed author of The Last Pearl and Dancing at the Victory Cafe, this is a beautiful novel about dark family secrets, betrayal, love and redemption.A child is born in the farmhouse at Windebank, in the West Riding of Yorkshire. Named Rejoice (Joy) by her dying father, Joy grows up witness to the persecution of the farming community for following a banned faith. Defying the authority of the local priest, she joins a group of Yorks...