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  • Weyward

    by Emilia Hart ...
    *As seen on BBC’s BETWEEN THE COVERS * A #2 Times bestseller * A New York Times bestseller‘Humming with a sly, exhilarating magic’ BRIDGET COLLINS‘A much-heralded epic’ OBSERVER‘Empowering’ GLAMOURThree women, five centuries, one spellbinding storyIn the present day, Kate</s... ... Read more

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  • Homecoming

    A Sweeping, Intergenerational Epic from the Multi-Million-Copy Bestselling Author

    by Kate Morton ...
    ‘If you haven’t read Kate Morton before, do yourself a favour’ – Graham Norton, broadcaster and bestselling author of Home StretchA breathtaking mystery of love, lies and a cold case come back to life, Homecoming is an immersive, twisting epic from the bestselling Kate Morton, told with her trademark intricacy and beauty.Adelaide Hills, 1959. At the end of a scorching hot day, in the grounds of a ... Read more

    £4.99

  • The Light Behind The Window

    A breathtaking story of love and war from the bestselling author of The Seven Sisters series

    by Lucinda Riley ...
    **From Lucinda Riley, number one bestselling author of the Seven Sisters series, The Light Behind the Window is a stunning tale of love, war and, above all, forgiveness.South of France, present day.** After the death of her glamorous, distant mother, Emilie de la Martiniéres finds herself alone in the world – and sole inheritor of her grand childhood home.A notebook of poems leads her to the ... Read more

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  • The Girls Left Behind

    A home for troubled children; a lifetime of hidden secrets. The BRAND NEW novel from the bestselling author

    by Emily Gunnis ...
    NO ONE WANTED TO END UP AT MORGATE HOUSE. BUT THE GIRLS HAD NOWHERE ELSE TO GO . . .'The thrilling, heartbreaking, and shocking story of dark secrets, twisted lives, lies, and manipulation. The twist! OMG!' ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐-----1985. Separated from her little sister at the children's home where they are taken as orphans, Holly Moore is a troubled teenager in need of lov... ... Read more

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  • Shogun

    NOW A MAJOR TV SERIES

    by James Clavell ...
    Series Book 1 - The Asian Saga
    NOW A MAJOR TV SERIES'Clavell never puts a foot wrong . . . Get it, read it, you'll enjoy it mightily' DAILY MIRRORThis is James Clavell's tour-de-force; an epic saga of one Pilot-Major John Blackthorne, and his integration into the struggles and strife of feudal Japan. Both entertaining and incisive, SHOGUN is a stunningly dramatic re-creation of a very different world.Starting with his shipwreck ... Read more

    £5.99 £0.99

  • The Color Purple

    Now a major motion picture from Oprah Winfrey and Steven Spielberg

    by Alice Walker ...
    THE ICONIC CLASSIC, WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZEONE OF THE BBC '100 NOVELS THAT SHAPED OUR WORLD''A lush celebration of all that it means to be a black female. I love that The Color Purple doesn't try to soften its blows but is also courageous enough to hold on to a wonderfully affirming faith in possibility, in forgiveness and kindness and hope'Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie'The Color Purple is my... ... Read more

    £4.99 £0.99

  • Kindred

    The ground-breaking masterpiece

    Octavia E. Butler's ground-breaking masterpiece, with an original foreword by Ayòbámi Adébáyò. Now an acclaimed TV series streaming on Disney +'A marvel of imagination, empathy and detail' NEW YORK TIMES'The marker you should judge all other time-travelling narratives by' GUARDIAN'One of the most significant literary artists of the twentieth century. One cannot exaggerate the impact she has had' ... Read more

    £2.99 £0.99

  • Alchemy (Giordano Bruno, Book 7)

    by S. J. Parris ...
    Series Book 7 - Giordano Bruno
    The new historical crime thriller, a Sunday Times bestseller, perfect for fans of C. J. Sansom and Hilary MantelPrague, 1588.A COURT IN TURMOILThe court of the Holy Roman Emperor, Rudolf II, is a haven for scientists, astrologers and alchemists. The dream – to discover the philosopher’s stone and attain immortality. But now there are rumours of heresy.A MURDERED ALCHEMISTGiordano Bruno is sent to ... Read more

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  • The Glutton

    Sister Perpetu� is not to move. She is not to fall asleep. She is to sit, keeping guard over the patient's room. She has heard the stories of his hunger, which defy belief: that he has eaten all manner of creatures and objects. A child even, if the rumours are to be believed. But it is hard to believe that this slender, frail man is the one they once called The Great Tarare, The Glutton of Lyon ... Read more

    £9.99 £0.99

  • The Square of Sevens

    The Times and Sunday Times Best Historical Fiction of 2023

    **The Sunday Times Top Five BestsellerA BBC Two Between the Covers Book Club PickA Guardian Best Crime and Thrillers of the Year Pick'This rich, complex and haunting Dickensian epic is a triumph of the Gothic genre' — Janice Hallett, bestselling author of The Appeal**Laura Shepherd-Robinson's The Square of Sevens is an epic and sweeping mystery set in Georgian high society, a dazzling story ... Read more

    £9.99 £5.99

  • Eileen

    Now a major film

    **NOW A MAJOR FILM********SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE**Trapped between caring for her alcoholic father and her job as a secretary at the boys' prison, Eileen Dunlop dreams of escaping to the big city.In the meantime, her nights and weekends are filled with shoplifting and cleaning up her increasingly deranged father's messes.When the beautiful, charismatic Rebecca Saint John arrives on ... Read more

    £3.99 £0.99

  • Dear Mrs Bird

    Cosy up with this heartwarming and heartbreaking novel set in wartime London

    by AJ Pearce ...
    Series Book 1 - The Wartime Chronicles
    **Richard & Judy Book Club Pick --- Sunday Times BestsellerSet during London's blitz and filled with warmth, wit and heartbreak,** Dear Mrs Bird is a wartime story about the power of friendship, the kindness of strangers and the courage of ordinary people.London, 1941. Amid the falling bombs Emmeline Lake dreams of becoming a fearless Lady War Correspondent. Unfortunately, Emmy instead finds ... Read more

    £5.99 £0.99

  • The Winter Waif

    The BRAND NEW heartbreaking historical saga from Lynette Rees for 2024

    by Lynette Rees ...
    'A touching and at times heart-rending story' Rosie ClarkeAll she wants is a place to call home...1884 - When Betsan Morgan’s mother succumbs to a devastating illness, she doesn't think her life could get much worse. But then her father moves in his new beau, an unserious flitty woman and coincidentally also the bargirl in the pub he works in, and she soon learns her house is no longer a home.All ... Read more

    £2.99 £0.99 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Lessons in Chemistry

    The multi-million-copy bestseller

    by Bonnie Garmus ...
    THE NEW YORK TIMES AND SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER, WITH OVER 6 MILLION COPIES SOLDNow a major Apple TV series starring Brie Larson'The most charming, life-enhancing novel I've read in ages' Sunday Times'Thought-provoking and stylish' Guardian___________Your ability to change everything - including yourself - starts hereChemist Elizabeth ... ... Read more

    £5.99

  • Cloud Atlas

    The epic bestseller, shortlisted for the Booker Prize

    'ONE OF THE MOST BRILLIANTLY INVENTIVE WRITERS OF THIS, OR ANY, COUNTRY' INDEPENDENTShortlisted for the Booker Prize, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Arthur C. Clarke Award, winner of Richard & Judy Best Read of the Year and a BBC Two Between the Covers Book Club pick'Miraculous'SUNDAY TIMES'A masterful feast'EVENING STANDARD'... ... Read more

    £4.99 £0.99

  • The Tudor Deception (Ben Hope, Book 28)

    by Scott Mariani ...
    Series Book 28 - Ben Hope
    An unmissable new thriller from the master of the genreAn unsolved historical mystery. A brutal bomb attack.Only one man can track down the killers that link them both.It’s 2005: Ben Hope, recently retired from the military, is living in Ireland and using his SAS skills to find and rescue missing children.But when asked to take on the case of two boys who disappeared centuries ago, he walks away, ... Read more

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  • The Marriage Portrait

    the Instant Sunday Times Bestseller, Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2023

    Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2023A Reese's Bookclub December Pick (2022)An Instant Sunday Times, New York Times and Irish Times Bestseller (August 2022)A Guardian and LitHub Book of the Year (December 2022)'Every bit as evocative and spellbinding as Hamnet. O'Farrell, thank God, just seems to be getting better and better' <em... ... Read more

    £10.99 £5.49

  • Kemp: The Road to Poitiers

    An edge-of-your-seat medieval adventure packed with battle and action

    by Jonathan Lunn ...
    Series Book 8 - Arrows of Albion
    Two kingdoms clash in one of the greatest battles of the Hundred Years War.September 1356. Martin Kemp and his troop of archers ride with the Black Prince’s army as it burns and plunders its way across France. When they find all the bridges across the Loire are destroyed, however, their hopes of uniting with the Duke of Lancaster’s army are dashed, and a hasty retreat is the order of the day.But a ... Read more

    £4.99 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • My Father's House

    As seen on BBC Between the Covers

    Series Book 1 - Rome Escape Line
    **AS SEEN ON BBC BETWEEN THE COVERS**AS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4**THE NUMBER ONE IRISH BESTSELLER**When the Nazis take Rome, thousands go into hiding. One priest will risk everything to save them.September 1943: German forces occupy Rome. SS officer Paul Hauptmann rules with terror.An Irish priest, Hugh O'Flaherty, dedicates himself to helping those escaping from the Nazis. His home is Vatican City, a ... Read more

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  • Diva

    Bestselling Daisy Goodwin returns with a heartbreaking, powerful novel about the legendary Maria Callas

    by Daisy Goodwin ...
    New York Times bestselling author Daisy Goodwin returns with a story of the scandalous love affair between the most celebrated opera singer of all time and one of the richest men in the world.'An extraordinary, vivid, and skilful re-imagining of a modern Greek legend' - Victoria HislopIn the glittering and ruthlessly competitive world of opera, Maria Callas is known simply as la divina: the divine ... Read more

    £5.99

  • Betrayal

    by Lesley Pearse ...
    Discover the story of a good woman with a terrible, haunting secretEve should never have married Don Hathaway . . .The man is a bully – but, after one drunken rage too many, Eve takes their children and leaves him. Don, however, is bitter. And getting away from him entirely proves impossible. Until the day Eve decides to teach Don a lesson – and it all goes horribly, hideously wrong.And this poor ... Read more

    £7.99 £4.99

  • The Nurse's Homecoming

    the next instalment in the emotional wartime saga series from BESTSELLER Fenella J Miller for 2024

    Series Book 2 - Victoria's War
    Book two in the gripping Nurse's War series by bestselling author Fenella J. Miller.Will she be reunited with those she loves?With her first husband dead and the war still ferocious, Victoria finds herself nursing injured soldiers on the Burma front. There she meets charismatic American, Captain Taylor King and, impulsively, marries a man she barely knows.But when Victoria becomes pregnant with ... Read more

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  • The Nurse's War

    the start of an emotional wartime saga series from BESTSELLER Fenella J Miller for 2024

    Series Book 1 - Victoria's War
    A gripping story from bestselling author, Fenella J. Miller.For King, for country...for love?Victoria Bahani, the privileged seventeen-year-old, daughter of the Rajah of Marpur and an English woman, has always believed she would marry an Englishman. And when she meets Captain Henry Hindley-Jones she knows he’s exactly the kind of man she’s been thinking of.But when war breaks out everything ... Read more

    £2.99

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  • Trust

    Winner of the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction

    by Hernan Diaz ...
    **Winner of the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for FictionLonglisted for the Booker PrizeOne of Barack Obama's Favourite Books of the YearThe Sunday Times BestsellerTrust is a sweeping puzzle of a novel about power, greed, love and a search for the truth that begins in 1920s New York.**Can one person change the course of history?A Wall Street tycoon takes a young woman as his wife. Together, they rise to the ... Read more

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