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A USA Today Bestseller! ‘Wow! What an enthralling and emotional read! I was literally in tears… Captivating.’ Goodreads reviewer, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A world at war. One woman will risk everything. Another will uncover her story. 1940: When the island of Guernsey is invaded by the Nazis, two...

“A poignant, tender story of families and sisters divided by the cruelty of political chance–my heart ached for them on every page." Kate Quinn, New York Times bestselling author of The Alice Network *contains exclusive audio content* A city divided. When the Berlin Wall goes up, Karin is on...

***A USA Today Bestseller.*** The heart-wrenching and unforgettable tale of a world on the brink of war from the internationally bestselling author of The German Midwife. *With exclusive audio content.* Berlin, 1938: It’s the height of summer, and Germany is on the brink of war. When fledgling...

Can love find a way to overcome hate? A historical drama set against the backdrop of World War Two. Can love find a way to overcome hate? When Frankie’s mother dies, she is sent to live with her Aunt Bet in the countryside. Life on their farm is happy – for a while. But when World War Two...

Bestselling historical fiction author Molly Green is back with her most engrossing, heartfelt World War Two saga yet! Preorder The Wartime Librarian's Secret now! Her duty is to keep smiling through… When World War II breaks out, Suzanne’s dream of attending the Royal Academy of Music...

The highly awaited new novel from the internationally bestselling author of The German Midwife (also published as A Woman of War). Venice, 1943 The world is at war, and Stella Jilani is leading a double life. By day she works in the lion’s den as a typist for the Reich; by night, she risks her...

Londoner Madeleine Grant is studying at the Sorbonne in Paris when she marries charismatic French journalist Giles Martin. As they raise their son, Olivier, they hold on to a tenuous promise for the future. Until the thunder of war sets off alarms in France. Staying behind to join the resistance, Giles sends Madeleine and Olivier to the relative safety of England, where Madeleine secures a job teaching French at a secondary school. Yet nowhere is safe. After a devastating twist of fate resulting in the loss of her son, Madeleine accepts a request from the ministry to aid in the war effort.

Detective novels, she said, were for simpletons and spinsters. But she translated them anyway – because someone she loved couldn’t live without them. 1936, London. Edie Adler slips into the back pew of a memorial service for her dearest friend, Vee Saunders – presumed dead, her body never...

A full-cast adaptation of Isabel Colegate's acclaimed novel, one of the inspirations behind Downton Abbey This captivating drama, narrated by Academy Award winner Olivia Colman (The Crown, Broadchurch, Wonka), is an exquisite elegy for a vanished world. Funny, compassionate and quietly...

The Farther Shore is a sweeping novel about fathers and sons, memory and race, and the dangerous fictions that shape us—inspired by the true story of Eugene Marais, one of history’s most extraordinary and forgotten minds. Southern Africa, 1890s. Eugene Marais is a brilliant naturalist and...

After her father’s death, nurse Della King is on the brink of homelessness—until she lands a job at the prestigious Baker Hospital in Eureka Springs, Arkansas. What promises safety and purpose—for both Della and the terminally ill patients who come from across the country—hides a far...

When George Hardy, surgeon and photographer, sets off from the cold squalor of Victorian Liverpool for the heat and glitter of the Bosphorus to offer his services in the Crimea, there straggles behind him a small caravan of devoted followers: Myrtle, his adoring adoptive sister; lapsed geologist Dr Potter; and photographer's assistant and sometime fire-eater Pompey Jones, driven onwards through a rising tide of death and disease by a shared and mysterious guilt.

Winner of the Windham Campbell Prize 'A gifted storyteller' - The Sunday Times In 1985, five girls – Suzanne, Portia, Chantal, Senzeni and Petronella – find themselves at Miss McDonald’s Boarding House. Each is a refugee of a different domestic tragedy. Suzanne’s father has been...

Dive into a tense Cold War espionage thriller where double agents and covert tradecraft decide the fate of the world. Perfect for an immersive commute, this gripping anthology intertwines ten high-stakes missions spanning from occupied Vienna to the fall of the Berlin Wall. Watchful sleepers and...

Plunge into a tense historical thriller where shadow espionage and quiet courage prevent global nuclear annihilation. Perfect for a gripping commute or deep-focus listening, this atmospheric journey follows a young conscript’s transformation into a seasoned intelligence operative. Experience...

Brought to you by Penguin. A once-in-a-generation series, Ali Smith's Seasonal quartet is a tour-de-force about love, time, art, politics, and how we live now. In the present, Sacha knows the world's in trouble. Her brother Robert just is trouble. Their mother and father are having trouble...

Germany, 1934: Anna's wedding night turns chilling as her husband reveals his devotion to Hitler. Six years later, Anna finds herself in war-torn Warsaw, running a spy network behind the façade of a café for enemy soldiers. Haunted by memories of her Nazi husband, she's drawn to the Polish resistance—and to Mateusz, a kind doctor who offers hope and warmth in the darkness.

Mit einem Unfall am See beginnt die Freundschaft zwischen Ella und Harriet. Obgleich grundverschieden, sind die beiden Mädchen einander unmittelbar zugetan. Doch Harriet hat ein Geheimnis, das sie ihrer besten Freundin lange verschweigt. Als der Krieg die Idylle ihrer Kindheit erreicht und vertraute Gewissheiten aufbricht, werden Ella und Harriet mit tiefgreifenden Verlusten konfrontiert.

A brother and sister find themselves at a crossroads during a single summer that changes everything for their family legacy—a captivating historical novel from the USA Today bestselling author of the Italian hit The Letter Carrier. "Domani domani" translates to "tomorrow tomorrow." This is a...

Bloomsbury presents Painter of Silence by Georgina Harding, read by Sian Thomas SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORANGE PRIZE FOR FICTION 2012 Iasi, Romania, the early 1950s. A nameless man is found on the steps of a hospital. Deaf and mute, he is unable to communicate until a young nurse called Safta brings...