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From the bestselling author of Broken for You, an exhilarating new novel about a child born into the world of the British Raj and raised largely in seclusion, until an act of violence catapults her into the world—a wartime love triangle, a literary puzzle, and a moving exploration of the power...

Her charisma changed lives.​ Her art changed history.​ Paris, 1930. Amrita Sher-Gil arrives at the École des Beaux-Arts – its youngest student, its first Indian – and begins painting canvases that will change art history. Brilliant, vivacious and utterly ungovernable, she tears through...

From the award-winning, Sunday Times bestselling author of Mrs England and The Household, comes Stacey Halls' most gripping, unsettling and thought-provoking novel yet. London, 1960. When Celia and Gregory Ringrose buy their first home on the edge of Hampstead Heath they feel like they've won...

From the bestselling author of The Light After the War comes a beautiful story of resilience and female friendship that will resonate with readers of Beatriz Williams and Bonnie Garmus. Commencement day at Wellesley College, a prominent female psychologist takes the stage and advises the...

In this audacious historical novel, an American spy agrees to help the victors divide up the spoils of World War I by literally drawing the new borders of the Middle East—only to discover that the relic he holds has far greater power than he could have imagined. In 1917, Elias Winters arrives...

A blistering tale of sapphic obsession and an extreme first love set in 1960s Australia. Aspiring artist Lilith has been dragged to her father’s homeland of Australia, a place in which she never feels at home, following a scandal she refuses to talk about. Her one saving grace amidst the...

During World War II, a Jewish mother and her two daughters flee from Nazi-occupied Poland to Uzbekistan, in this sweeping tale of resilience and connection despite impossible odds from the acclaimed author of The View from Stalin’s Head and Hotel Cuba. At the dawn of World War II, Devora...

Introducing the Polish master of espionage with a gripping international thriller about the final crumbling of the USSR and the dawn of Putin’s reign... October 1990. With Mikhail Gorbachev at the helm, glasnost and perestroika are reshaping the USSR, and the Cold War is drawing to an...

Introducing the Polish master of espionage with a gripping international thriller about the final crumbling of the USSR and the dawn of Putin’s reign... October 1990. With Mikhail Gorbachev at the helm, glasnost and perestroika are reshaping the USSR, and the Cold War is drawing to an...

From Giller Prize-winning author Linden MacIntyre comes a powerful and moving novel about idealism, faith, family and the incredible reach that the past can have in shaping our present and future lives. It's October 1962, and Professor James O'Donoghue—otherwise known as "The Deacon" on the...

A full-cast BBC drama of an epic family saga based on the novel by Maisie Mosco This series follows one Jewish family as they set off to Manchester to escape persecution in Russia and to try to make a life elsewhere. It is a story told through a huge expanse of time, right up and through the...

Award-winning Russian historian Catherine Merridale turns her adept hand to fiction in this gripping and poignant thriller set on the eve of Stalin's Great Purge, for readers of Robert Harris and David McCkloskey. December 1934. Moscow is in ferment after the assassination of one of Stalin's...

From the internationally bestselling author of the Dales Detectives series, Julia Chapman, comes a vibrant new mystery featuring a mismatched detective duo. There’s danger at the bus depot . . . Coventry bus driver Errol Dexter finds himself in the crosshairs of the Serious Crime Squad as the...

In 1904, Ota Benga, a young Congolese 'pygmy' - a person of petite stature - arrived from central Africa and was featured in an anthropology exhibit at the St. Louis World's Fair. Two years later, the New York Zoological Gardens displayed him in its Monkey House, caging the slight 103-pound...

Set in 1940s Tehran, when patriarchal dominance made women invisible, two girls must sacrifice everything to build lives of their own. Goli is still a child when her father marries her off to an older cousin. While she dreams of a life beyond the confines of feminine propriety, a devastating...

The author of West Heart Kill returns with an original, gripping, and atmospheric novel of moral complexity set against the backdrop of Nazi-occupied Paris in World War II “McDorman’s knowledge is abundant, as is his cleverness.” —The New York Times Book Review Paris, 1942. The German...

A sweeping historical debut about friendship, race, coming of age, an impossible love story and a missing diamond set in 1950s Florida for fans of Demon Copperhead and Go as a River. Growing up in the 1950s on the grounds of a former orange plantation, Hallie Bentley has learned to dodge snakes...

To save her sister, she’ll rewrite history… ––––––––––––––––––––––––- 'A spectacular writer. Her unwavering command of voice, time, and place bring history to life with imagination and purpose, but it is her skill in illuminating the selfless...

From Washington Post bestselling author Olivia Hawker comes an unforgettable portrait of one family’s fate, swept up in the turmoil of life in post–World War I America. The Great War is over, and armistice has finally come. But peace remains elusive in America, where the winds of change...

There's always more than one side to every story. So who do you dare to trust? Marie and Camille Bardet? 'Jean'? The German spy catcher? The priest? The bombmaker? The singer? The forger? The sommelier? Paris 1942. Twin sisters, Camille and Marie Bardet, have been recruited to join a resistance...