‘Gripping, compelling and beautiful.’ Emma Cowell, author of The House in the Olive GroveA secret big enough to destroy the Führer’s reputation. . .January 1939:When Katja Heinz secures a job as a typist at Doctor Viktor’s clinic, she doesn’t expect to be copying top secret medical records from a notebook.At the end of the first world war, Doctor Viktor treated sold...

‘A big, beautiful, epic tale of war, heartache, betrayal, courage and most of all, love. I can’t remember the last time I was so transported by a book . . . I can’t recommend The Echoes of Love more highly. This story is a classic of our time’ Louise Douglas, The Room in the Attic‘A magnificent, sweeping tale that I haven't stopped thinking about since I turned the last beautiful page. The writing is incredible, the characters leap from the page ....

'I know no rival to this book in its presentation of a major dynasty in English history' DIARMAID MACCULLOCH'Fascinating, gripping, revelatory' KATE WILLIAMSTHOMAS MADE ENGLAND. OLIVER MADE BRITAIN.Within a century, the Cromwell family produced two of the most powerful, impactful and controversial commoners in British history. Thomas served the Tudors, helping to forge Henry VIII’s autocratic state and the Church of...

‘As addictive as morphine’ THE TIMESFrom the author of the classic Farseer trilogy, SHIP OF MAGIC is the first part of the Liveship Traders. Set in a land bordering the Six Duchies, Robin Hobb begins her epic tale of pirates, talking ships, magic, sea serpents, slave revolts, dashing heroes and bloody battles.Wizardwood, the most precious commodity in the world, comes only from the Rain Wilds. But only a liveship can negotiate the perilous waters of the Rain Wild River, and...

‘Hobb is a remarkable storyteller’ GUARDIANThe second volume in this superb trilogy from the author of The Farseer trilogy continues the dramatic tale of piracy, serpents, love and magic.The Vestrit family’s liveship, Vivacia, has been taken by the pirate king, Kennit. Held captive on board, Wintrow Vestrit finds himself competing with Kennit for Vivacia’s love as the ship slowly acquires her own bloodlust.Leagues away, Althea Vestrit has found a new home aboard the...

‘Even better than the Farseer books. I didn’t think that was possible’ GEORGE RR MARTINThe triumphant conclusion to the magnificent Liveship Traders series.The dragon, Tintaglia, released from her wizardwood coffin, flies high over the Rain Wild River. Below her, Reyn and Selden have been left to drown, while Malta and the Satrap attempt to navigate the acid flow of the river in a decomposing boat.Althea and Brashen are sailing the liveship Paragon into pirate water...

Globally famous and yet universally misunderstood – these are the complex and utterly engrossing stories of Britain's royal women behind the public façade. Saints or sinners? Perfect princesses or difficult duchesses? Monarchy’s saviours or its destroyers?They rank among the world’s most famous women – and the most misunderstood. Throughout history, royal women have been sanitised and sanctified by supporters, distorted and demonised by critics, pitted against each other, ...

‘A wonderfully clever and howlingly funny thriller’ The Spectator'Glitters with secret agendas, hidden lies and sun-soaked desires' Emma Stonex'Whip-smart and made me laugh out loud. Magnificent' Joanna Cannon'Thorny and sexy' Beth Morrey'Pulsing with heat and intrigue' Marianne LevyWhat if your perfect life was a charade?It is Augus...

THE SUNDAY TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022 WINNER OF THE POL ROGER DUFF COOPER PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZEEleven years when Britain had no king.In 1649 Britain was engulfed by revolution.On a raw January afternoon, the Stuart king, Charles I, was executed for treason. Within weeks the English monarchy had been abolished and the ‘useless and dangerous’ House of Lords discarded. The people, it w...

A must-listen adventure, bringing Jules Verne's classic Around the World in Eighty Days to life for young readers with a thrilling new twist.You must take every day, every hour, every minute one tick at a time.It is 1872 and, when Maggie Appleton's beloved mother dies, she is left with nothing but a letter for a mysterious stranger called Passepartout. With nowhere else to turn, Maggie seeks out Passepartout and, in doing so, is drawn into...

World War II, Berlin. Freyja Bremer, a patriotic museum assistant, marries Kaspar Voigt, an ambitious SS scholar, to protect her father. Yet she is unaware how instrumental her husband is in Himmler's twisted quest for Aryan supremacy. As she strives to safeguard the priceless Priam's Treasure from air raids, Freyja falls in love with Darien Lessing, an archaeologist who exposes the moral decay beneath the regime's myths. Her awakening drives her into perilous resistance – aiding a Jewish ...

SHE was meant to be the perfect girl…‘Brutal and brilliant, this novel will leave you breathless’ Adele Parks, Sunday Times No. 1 bestselling author of Lies Lies Lies‘A darkly disturbing thriller about the daughter-in-law from hell, with an epic twist’ Piers MorganSHE’s everything he dreamed of, isn’t SHE?Ben can’t believe his luck when Bella walks into his life, just when he needs her most...