A Drop of Golden Sun
It's 1973 and Jenny has been cast in a major motion picture. Her ordinary life is about to become extraordinary! From the Costa-winning author of Five Children on the Western Front. 12-year-old Jenny is in shock. She's just been cast as one of the lead roles in a feature film. She's going to be a child actor! Soon she must...Paperback$1899Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
A Dragon Used to Live Here
Raise the drawbridge for a story-within-a-story melding classic fairy-tale trappings with contemporary, tongue-in-cheek wit, abundantly illustrated in black-and-white—a perfect family read. Noble children Thomas and Emily have always known their mother to be sensible, the lady of the castle—if anything, a bit boring. But then they discover Meg, a cranky scribe who lives in the castle basement, leading a quirky...Hardback$3299Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
A Christmas in Time
Fun-filled, action-packed adventures in time from best-selling, award-winning author, Sally Nicholls. When Alex and Ruby fall through the mirror in their aunt's house, they find themselves in a different historical period, each time with a different task to perform before they can return to the present. From Edwardian crime capers to Victorian Christmasses, their time-slip stories are always exciting and...Paperback$1799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
The Brightwood Code
Timely and unforgettable, The Brightwood Code sheds light on hidden history and the brutality of being a woman in a war built by men. The Brightwood Code has everything I love in a book." - Stacey Lee, New York Times bestselling author of Reese's Book Club pick The Downstairs Girl Seven months ago, Edda was on the World War I...Paperback$4100Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
The Story Spinner
A Welsh princess. A Roman general. Their love story lost to time… The land of the Silures, 382 AD A marriage of power. It’s 382 AD and Elen, a princess of the Welsh hills, is promised to a ruthless Roman general. Despite warnings that her marriage is destined for heartache, Elen is determined to honour her vows, if only to...Paperback$5100Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
The Lost Memories
Readers will be captivated by this story of love, sacrifice, and destiny, where the past and present collide to rewrite the future. The Lost Memories gathered me up and swept me away. A beautiful, uplifting tale of life's many types of love, and how the truest are never forgotten.” Amanda Geard –––––––––––––––- Suffolk, 1944. American pilot Charlie's second tour is...Paperback$2499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
The Great Book of King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table
The most famous and influential work of English fantasy ever published, reimagined for a new generation of readers by John Matthews, one of the world’s leading Arthurian experts, and illustrated by internationally acclaimed Tolkien artist, John Howe. Journey back to the legendary time of King Arthur and his knights of the Round Table, of Merlin and dragons, of the Great...Paperback$2799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
The Golden Thread
Intricate threads from the past and the present bind together a yellow silk dress, lost gold, and a missing grandmother in a twisty historical mystery from the bestselling author of The Talented Mrs Greenway. Maitland, 1889 When nineteen-year-old Constance Montague wakes one Wednesday, she expects the day to unfold like any other. Breakfast with her grandmother Nell and her mother...Paperback$2499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
The Cursed Friend
An unbreakable, life-changing friendship will lead two young girls from different worlds to rebel against the sexism, prejudice and injustice they face living in 1930s Italy in this moving novel that echoes the spirit of Elena Ferrante's beloved works. 'Richly imagined' OBSERVER 'A widescreen, sensory, visual story' THE TIMES It is 1936 in the small Italian city of Monza. On...Paperback$2499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Shrapnel Boys
An explosive new novel about the friendship and courage of a group of young boys living through the Second World War, from award-winning author Jenny Pearson. Shrapnel Boys tells the tale of Ronnie Smith, who finds himself in a city as the war descends upon London in 1939. Emotionally caught between fear and excitement, Ronnie is scared of the bombs...Paperback$1999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks-
Christmas with the Queen
Curl up this winter with a heart-warming Christmas romance for fans of The Crown and Downton Abbey! 'A page-turning festive read, full of will they/won't they romance, intriguing glimpses of royal life behind palace doors, and inspiring culinary treats. As delicious as a Christmas pudding topped with flaming brandy and lashings of cream' — Gill Paul December 1952 As a...Paperback$2799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks 
A Schooling in Murder
From the author of The Ashes of London, comes a new historical mystery set in the last days of WWII. ‘A grand piece of work – a triumph and one of Taylor’s best’ MICK HERRON 'A wonderfully unique novel from the master of historical crime fiction. Beautiful, haunting, and quite brilliant' LAURA SHEPHERD-ROBINSON ‘As good as I’d expect from a...Paperback$3799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Not for the Faint of Heart
Rip-roaringly romantic, fast-paced and funny - discover the brand new Sapphic historical fantasy adventure from the author of Café Nero Award shortlisted, YA Book Prize winner and Books Are My Bag Reader's Award winner, Gwen and Art Are Not in Love. ‘You aren’t merry,’ said Clem to her captor. ‘And you aren’t all men. So there’s been some marketing confusion...Paperback$2299Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
His Girl Hollywood
The Gilded Age of Hollywood meets Christina Lauren in this rompy rom-com where an aspiring 1930s film director's new leading man turns out to be her long-lost love, the man who abandoned her to pursue his career... and who's hiding a dangerous secret that might tear them apart again just as they find their way back together. From Entertainment Weekly...Paperback$3700Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Highland Legend
Fight Club meets The Gladiator in the Scottish Highlands from USA Today bestselling author Kathryn Le Veque. Gripping historical romance in the Scottish Highlands from USA Today bestselling author Kathryn Le Veque. Victory. Honor. Redemption. Magnus Stewart, aka "The Eagle," is the bastard son of a duke, and his royal blood has never been anything but a curse. Among the...Paperback$1999Elsewhere:$2100Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Hex and Hexability
'Crackles with sizzling banter and hot chemistry, weaving a spell of desire that will also bewitch you' Good Housekeeping Bridgerton meets The Ex Hex this witchy season with this oh so spicy romantasy Regency romcom! ‘Do you want to see what witches can do?’ Lady Tiffany Worthington has always had a special talent for making the world around her come...Paperback$2799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks-
Monstrous Design
With swashbuckling, super-fast paced action and own voices queer romance, The Battalion of the Dead return in a dazzling new adventure, set amid the opulence and squalor of 18th-century London and Paris. 1794, London: where luxury and squalor rub shoulders and men of science conspire to raise the dead and make monsters. From the glamorous excesses of the Vauxhall Pleasure...Paperback$1899Elsewhere:$2299Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks 
Mirror Girls
A thrilling gothic horror novel about biracial twin sisters separated at birth, perfect for fans of Lovecraft Country and The Vanishing Half - now in paperback! Magnolia Heathwood, heiress to a decrepit cotton plantation in Jim Crow's Georgia, was raised to be the perfect southern belle. All her life she's prepared to carry on the family dynasty, but according to...Paperback$3900Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
Her Adventures in Temptation
In this newest addition to the School for Scoundrels series, Simeon Jones and Lady Myrtle Allen tell all the ton that they are engaged to be wed, fully knowing that once the season is over they will quietly part ways. They each have their reasons, but neither expected love to tempt them into turning a pretense into reality! Simeon Jones...Paperback$1799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Little Women
Bestselling author Laura Wood brings the adventures of Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy to even more readers in this beautiful retelling of Louisa May Alcott’s coming-of-age classic. Little Women, the charming story of the brave and resilient March sisters, has been adored by generations of readers who have identified with the struggles of kind and pretty Meg; gentle, delicate Beth;...Paperback$2199Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Lion's Game, volume 1
After the assassination of one of Mali's greatest kings, the traitors behind the coup set out to erase his legacy from Mali's history. Their efforts fail when the youngest princess of Mali escapes with her newborn child to the Tuareg tribes in the Sahara. When her grief turns into hatred, the exiled princess swears an oath of vengeance against the...Paperback$4400Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
King Solomon's Mines
Puffin Classics - the definitive collection of timeless stories, for every child Rediscover the Puffin Classics collection and bring the best-loved classics to a new generation, including this thrilling edition of King Solomon's Mines. Following a mysterious ancient map, a small group of men trek into southern Africa in search of a lost friend and the fabled diamond mines of...Paperback$2400Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Justice At Sea
The tides of the Faerie War are turning, but at how high a cost for the Kasric family? Justice At Sea follows Justice Kasric and her family, who are embroiled in the Human-Faerie War, finding themselves fighting on both sides. At just fifteen, Justice is possibly the youngest Admiral to ever command her own ship and lead a resistance. She...Paperback$5100Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
Just a Girl
"I do not remember when I discovered how my mother died, it seems to be something I always knew, a horror I absorbed through my skin." Determined, passionate, privileged and headstrong, Elizabeth I was born into a world where she felt she didn't belong and had to fight to survive. Her mother, Anne Boleyn, was executed by her father, Henry...Paperback$2600Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Jackaby
This thrilling novel from the author of the New York Times bestselling paranormal mystery Jackaby series pits R.F. Jackaby, an investigator of the unexplainable, and his new assistant, Abigail Rook, against a supernatural serial killer. Newly arrived in New Fiddleham, New England, 1892, and in need of a job, Abigail Rook meets R.F. Jackaby, an investigator of the unexplained with...Paperback$4100Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
Inevitable Fate
Mara Cassidy is going to die . . . again. For seventeen years, Evan Kiernan's life has felt like painting by someone else's numbers, moving and transferring schools every time his mum has a breakup. But when he's accepted into NYU's Promising Young Artist programme for his senior year, the future suddenly feels like a blank canvas. However, it soon...Hardback$5400Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
I'll Take Everything You Have
From an Edgar Award-winning author, this historical noir novel follows the life-changing summer of sixteen-year-old Joe Garbe as he discovers queer community in 1930s Chicago and gets caught up in the city's crooked underbelly. In the summer of 1934, Joe Garbe arrives in Chicago with one goal: Earn enough money to get out of debt and save the family farm....Paperback$4700Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
Hunting Prince Dracula
In this New York Times bestselling sequel to Kerri Maniscalco's haunting #1 debut Stalking Jack the Ripper, bizarre murders are discovered in the castle of Prince Vlad the Impaler, otherwise known as Dracula. Could it be a copycat killer . . . or has the depraved prince been brought back to life? Following the grief and horror of her discovery...Paperback$4100Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
Every Time We Say Goodbye
A surprise phone call from her late fiancé's family sends Vivien Lowry of Bloomsbury Girls off on her next adventure. Struggling as a playwright, she moves to Italy both to reckon with her past and create a new future as a scriptwriter at the Cinecittà Studios in Rome. Here she encounters the greatest male bastion of them all, the Vatican....Paperback$3999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Every Time We Say Goodbye
A surprise phone call from her late fiancé's family sends Vivien Lowry of Bloomsbury Girls off on her next adventure. Struggling as a playwright, she moves to Italy both to reckon with her past and create a new future as a script-writer at the Cinecittà Studios in Rome. Here she encounters the greatest male bastion of them all, the Vatican....Paperback$2799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Elsa Goody, Bushranger
Elsa Goody is a woman on a quest for buried treasure - and her own freedom. A thrilling historical romance adventure from a bestselling Australian author. 1896 Robe, South Australia When Elsa Goody's father and brother George die in quick succession, she and her sister Rosie are in trouble. Pursued by an unpleasant suitor with dubious motivation, Elsa leaves for...Paperback$2299Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Duke Most Wicked
You'll love Lenora Bell! Eloisa James USA Today bestselling author Lenora Bell returns to the Wallflowers vs. Rogues series with a brilliant new novel about a scandalous duke and a wallflower with a secret... It is a truth universally acknowledged that a wicked duke who has gambled away his fortune must be in want of an heiress. Scarred by a...Paperback$11800Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
Heart of a Samurai
In 1841, a Japanese fishing vessel sinks, forcing its crew to swim to a small, unknown island. They are rescued by a passing American ship. With Japan's borders closed to all Western nations, the crew sets off to America, learning English along the way. Manjiro, a 14-year-old boy, is curious and eager to learn everything he can about this new...Paperback$1595Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Daughter of the Hunter Valley
Alone. Near destitute. But brave and determined. Can Maddy beat the odds to create a new home in the Hunter Valley? An award-winning Australian historical debut, perfect for readers of Darry Fraser. ARRA Winner of Favourite Debut Romance Author of 2021 1831, New South Wales Reeling from her mother's death, Madeleine Barker-Trent arrives in the newly colonised Hunter River to...Paperback$3299Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks-
Frankenstein
A gripping and gruesome retelling of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein brought to life for a new generation of readers by Carnegie Medal winning author Tanya Landman. A thrilling gothic tale of hubris gone badly wrong. A young man’s search for the secret of the spark of life leads him to a horrific experiment in which he creates a gigantic creature from...Paperback$2199Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks 
Follow After Me
In 1914, Evie's dreams are destroyed when the shadow of World War I descends. Her sweetheart, eighteen-year-old Tom Windridge, leaves the family's farm to serve in the war with his four brothers. Before he goes, Evie gives Tom a small key as a good luck charm – the key to her heart. Evie's spirit is shattered when she learns Tom...Paperback$1999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Death at Morning House
An instant New York Times and Indie bestseller! From the bestselling author of the Truly Devious books, Maureen Johnson, comes a new stand-alone YA about a teen who uncovers a mystery while working as a tour guide on an island and must solve it before history repeats itself. The fire wasn’t Marlowe Wexler’s fault. Dates should be hot, but not...Paperback$2999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Dangerous Remedy
The first in a dazzling, commercial, historical adventure series set in the extravagant and deadly world of the French Revolution. A whirlwind of action, science, and magic reveals, with a diverse cast of fearless heroines, a band of rebels like no other. Camille, a revolutionary's daughter, leads a band of outcasts – a runaway girl, a deserter, an aristocrat in...Paperback$2299Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Charming Young Man
From New York Times bestselling author Eliot Schrefer comes an exuberant YA historical coming-of-age novel about a rising star French pianist, navigating his way into high society as he explores his sexuality. Perfect for fans of Last Night at the Telegraph Club and The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue. They say Léon Delafosse will be France’s next great pianist....Paperback$2999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Chainbreaker
Now in paperback! The sequel to the LGBT phenomenon Timekeeper continues the dangerous dark adventure of an alternate Victorian world where time is controlled by clocks. Clock mechanic Danny Hart knows he's being watched. But by whom, or what, remains a mystery. To make matters worse, clock towers have begun falling in India, though time hasn't stopped yet. He'd hoped...Paperback$3700Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks-
A Company of Fools
From the best-selling author of Parvana and Parvana's Journey comes an extraordinary story for young readers, set in fourteenth-century France at the time of the Plague. This is a story about friendship, courage, and the importance of resisting hypocrisy and despair.Paperback$2299Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks 
Clancy of the Overflow (The Matilda Saga, #9)
From Australia's best-loved storyteller comes the final book in the bestselling Matilda Saga This is a love song to our nation, told in a single sweeping story. Jed Kelly has finally persuaded her great aunt Nancy to tell the story of her grandparents. The tale that unfolds is one of Australia's greatest romances - that of Clancy of the Overflow,...Paperback$2999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Celia
First published as Bless Thine Inheritance. Celia Mardham's first London Season should have been a great success, but a near fatal riding accident has left her with a pronounced limp, which means she cannot even curtsy, let alone dance. Condemned, it seems, to spinsterhood, her mother, Lady Mardham, makes one last effort. She draws up a list of guests for...Paperback$2799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks-
Birds of a Feather
Beth doesn't feel like she belongs in her rambunctious, bohemian family, apart from the special relationship she shares with her grandma, Elise. When Beth wins the lottery (on a ticket she bought to prove she could be spontaneous), she decides to spend it on treating Elise. But instead of anything material, Elise wants Beth to help her track down her...Paperback$3799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks 
Beautiful Innocence
London, 1900. Hester Stanmore watches in disbelief as the jury declares her attacker 'not guilty', and the courtroom erupts into chaos. The man in the dock is being congratulated as if he were a hero, but she has seen the madness in his eyes when he had attacked her and left her for dead. It was only Hester’s strength that...Paperback$2799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
A Touch Wicked
The Masquerade has only two rules: Depart by morning and never reveal your identity. He is London's most eligible bachelor... The Earl of Kent is at the top of every debutante's list for marriage. James is handsome, wealthy, and on the lookout for a bride. When an invitation to the Masquerade—an illicit club where members carry on affairs in complete...Paperback$2499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
As Rich as a Rogue
The third instalment of spirited and saucy Regency romance from USA Today bestselling author, Jade Lee. Peter George Norwood, Lord Whitly, returns to London a wealthy man in want of a wife. And who better but the woman who fires his heart like no other, the Wayward Welsh heiress Mari Powel? Mari Powel's fiery Welsh temper is up. Peter Norwood,...Paperback$1799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks-
A Sister’s Promise
From the USA Today Bestseller Can a secret sister help her find her way? Worthing, 1931 Raised in the grandeur of Muntham Court, young Millicent has always felt like the black sheep of her family. Between a vindictive mother and a conceited older sister, her only ally is her doting father, Charles. Brought up in the traveller community and always...Paperback$2799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks 
Any Duke in a Storm
The only thing more dangerous than her mission is the duke himself... Any Duke in a Storm takes historical romance to the high seas. Famed spy Lady Lisbeth Medford is on a ship bound for the West Indies, and the only thing more dangerous than her mission is the elusive Duke she's trying to capture. Lady Lisbeth Medford, Countess of...Paperback$2800Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
A Man of Legend
Family tore them apart. Will an outlaw bring them back together? Bestselling author Linda Broday sweeps readers back to the wild and untamed West, where men became the stuff of legend, with: Two young lovers ripped apart A family feud turned deadly A secret waiting to be unearthed And a passion no one could ever deny A Man of Legend...Paperback$1999Elsewhere:$2100Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Always Be My Duchess
Pretty Woman meets the Bridgertons in this witty, vivacious historical take on 90s romcoms by USA Today bestselling author Amalie Howard: "Refreshing, steamy, and stocked with characters you don't normally get to see in the genre—a must-read author" - Jodi Picoult, #1 New York Times bestselling author Lord Lysander Blackstone, the stern Duke of Montcroix, has only one interest: increasing...Paperback$6000Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks-
A Lady's Guide to London
Charming, sexy historical romantic comedy with strong-willed heroines and supportive heroes, perfect for fans of Evie Dunmore, India Holton, and Bridgerton. Refreshingly charming with a feisty, resilient heroine worth fighting for. I loved it! -Amalie Howard, USA Today bestselling author, for The Lady He Lost An enemies-to-lovers historical romantic comedy between a grumpy Viscount with a rocky reputation and a...Paperback$3500Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
A Duke by Any Other Name
Grace Burrowes is terrific! Julia Quinn Grace Burrowes is a romance treasure Tessa Dare A difficult duke, a determined lady and too many secrets . . . Nathaniel, Duke of Rothhaven, lives in seclusion, leaving his property only to gallop his demon-black steed across the moors by moonlight. Exasperated mamas invoke his name to frighten small children, though Nathaniel is...Paperback$11600Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks -
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From Here to Eternity
James Jones' epic drama of army life in the calm before Pearl Harbor comes to Penguin Modern Classics—now with previously censored scenes restored. Diamond Head, Hawaii, 1941. Pvt. Robert E. Lee Prewitt is a career soldier and a champion welterweight. But when he refuses to join the company's boxing team for reasons he will not explain, he is subjected to...Paperback$4499Elsewhere:$4500Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks 
A Daughter’s Secret
Don't miss the brand new epic family drama from the nation’s favourite storyteller… Will a dark shadow destroy her family? As a servant below stairs at the big manor house, Rose dreams of running her own teashop one day, and carefully saves a few shillings each week from the money she sends back home to her mother. But on her...Paperback$3699Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks-
The Governor, His Wife and His Mistress
The very best historical fiction ... Williams' novel gives voice in a page-turning narrative to the compelling lives and experiences of two forgotten women of early colonial Australia. — Melissa Ashley, author of The Naturalist of Amsterdam I very much enjoyed That Bligh Girl, and eagerly look forward to reading its prequel. — Judy Nunn, author of Black Sheep When...Paperback$3799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks 
The Unfolding
The Big Guy loves his family, money, and democracy. Undone by the results of the 2008 Presidential election, he taps a group of like-minded men to reclaim their version of America. As they build a scheme to disturb and disrupt, the Big Guy also faces turbulence within his family and must take responsibility for his past actions. For his wife...Paperback$2799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
The Tree of Heaven
The Tree of Heaven follows the fortunes of the Harrison family as the children grow up in the shadow of the First World War. Dorothy's brothers go off, one by one, to the trenches, while she becomes involved with the suffrage movement and later joins a version of the Women's Social and Political Union. Published at a time when women...Paperback$4700Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
The Sky Club
Finalist for the 2023 Thomas Wolfe Memorial Literary Award "When I'm dead and buried... you get the hell out of here... Make a life somewhere else... a life that I can't even imagine." Jo has a gift. She is a mathematical prodigy— a woman who sees and thinks in numbers. She secures a job as a teller at Central Bank...Paperback$5500Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks-
The Silence of Scheherazade
September 1905. At the heart of the Ottoman Empire, in the ancient city of Smyrna, Scheherazade is born to an opium-dazed mother. At the very same moment, an Indian spy sails into the golden-hued, sycamore-scented city with a secret mission from the British Empire. When he leaves, 17 years later, it will be to the smell of kerosene and smoke...Paperback$4499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks 
The Schoolmistress and Other Stories
The Schoolmistress and Other Stories (1920) is a collection of short stories by Russian writer Anton Chekhov. "The Schoolmistress" was written in 1897 and published in an issue of Moscow's daily newspaper Russkiye Vedomosti. Even for Chekhov, whose work is characteristically bleak and noted for its unsparing realism, the title story of this collection is particularly hopeless. And yet, reading...Paperback$3400Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
The Rabbits
The Rabbits, as they call themselves, are Archie Mannering, his sister Myra, Samuel Simpson, Thomas of the Admiralty, Dahlia Blair, and the narrator, with occasional guests. Their conversation is almost entirely frivolous, their activity vacillates between immensely energetic and happily lazy, and their social mores are surprisingly progressive. Originally published as sketches in Punch, the Rabbits' escapades are a charming...Paperback$2799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks-
The Moor's Account
Winner of the American Book Award Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2015 A Finalist for the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 'An absorbing story' - SALMAN RUSHDIE 'Rich, vivid and gripping' - GUARDIAN 'Feels at once historical and contemporary' - NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW In 1527, hundreds of settlers arrived on the coast of modern-day Florida and claimed...Paperback$2799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
The Mark of Zorro
The Mark of Zorro (1924) is a novel by Johnston McCulley. Originally published as The Curse of Capistrano (1919), McCulley's novel was re-released to capitalise on the success of the 1920 silent film of the same name starring Douglas Fairbanks. Beloved by generations of readers and moviegoers alike, Zorro is recognised as a symbol of justice and rebellion throughout the...Hardback$5400Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks -
The Lost Love Songs of Boysie Singh
FROM THE WINNER OF THE INDIE BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION 2021 ‘With Ingrid Persaud’s, assured, wizened and brilliant hand at the pen, these women become vitally, thrillingly, and unforgettably alive.’ MARLON JAMES ‘A voice that has a vibrancy of its own.’ RACHEL JOYCE ‘A talented and engaging storyteller.’ Sunday Times ‘Persaud has a knack for finding the sublime in the...Hardback$4999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks 
The Lost Love Songs of Boysie Singh
FROM THE WINNER OF THE INDIE BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION 2021 ‘With Ingrid Persaud’s, assured, wizened and brilliant hand at the pen, these women become vitally, thrillingly, and unforgettably alive.’ — MARLON JAMES ‘A voice that has a vibrancy of its own.’ — RACHEL JOYCE ‘A talented and engaging storyteller.’ — Sunday Times ‘Persaud has a knack for finding the...Paperback$3699Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks-
The Librarians of Lisbon
The romance of Casablanca meets the spy world of Ian Fleming in this WWII love story for the ages. Lisbon 1943. As two American librarians are drawn into a city of dangerous subterfuge and unexpected love affairs, they are forced to choose between their missions and the men they love. Inspired by real historical figures, award-winning author Suzanne Nelson pens...Hardback$6900Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks -
The Green Man of Eshwood Hall
'Striking a perfect balance between myth and psychosocial realism, this is a beautifully written debut' – Guardian 'Recalls M. R. James at his nastiest' – Telegraph Eshwood Hall is a great English house surrounded by sprawling woods. In 1962, Izzy is thirteen, lives in the servants' quarters and doesn't go to school. Neglected by her parents, she spends her moments...Paperback$2799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
The Great Gatsby
LARGE PRINT EDITION. Following his service in the First World War, a young Yale graduate moves to New York City for work. Living on Long Island, Nick Carraway meets a magnanimous millionaire named Jay Gatsby, who attempts to attract him to his hedonistic lifestyle. The Great Gatsby is the story of a lost generation, a novel of fortune and failure...Paperback$6300Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks -
The Four Horsemen of the Apocolypse
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1916) is a novel by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez. Published at the height of his career as a popular Spanish author, The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse was adapted into a 1921 silent film starring Rudolph Valentino and later into a 1962 feature directed by Vincente Minelli. In 1919, the novel became a bestseller in...Hardback$6500Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks -
The End of Drum-Time
Shortlisted for the National Book Award A story of forbidden love and fugitive faith in the nineteenth century Arctic Circle. Transports readers deep into an unfamiliar world, yet with familiar conflicts and desires. I was absorbed and changed. Absolutely beautiful - Tracy Chevalier, bestselling author of Girl With a Pearl Earring. In 1851, at a remote village in the Scandinavian...Paperback$2799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
The Curious Enlightenment of Professor Caritat
The Curious Enlightenment of Professor Caritat is a brilliant fictional journey through Western political philosophy by one of our most original thinkers. Professor Caritat, a middle-aged Candide, walks naively through the neighbouring countries of Utilitaria, Communitaria and Libertaria, in his quest to find the best of all possible worlds. Cut loose from the confines of his ivory tower, this wandering...Paperback$2299Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks 
The Colonel and the Eunuch
The phenomenal #1 Chinese bestseller, with over 4 million copies sold. This is a searing exploration of what makes a hero: a literary masterpiece, available in the English language for the very first time. The boy grows up in a small village in south China listening to stories about the Colonel: some say he was a legendary army doctor during...Hardback$5499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks-
The Caricaturist
A young artist meets Stephen Crane as America's hunger for empire draws them both into war Oliver Fischer, a self-styled bohemian, boardwalk caricaturist, and student at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, enrages his banker father and earns the contempt of Philadelphia's foremost realist painter, Thomas Eakins, when he attempts to stage Manet's scandalous painting The Luncheon on the...Paperback$4900Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks 
The Brightest Star
A LIBRARYREADS PICK AND BEST BOOK CLUB PICK OF 2023 “A writer of astonishing grace, delicacy, and feeling.”—Michael Chabon, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay “A beautiful, haunting book.”—Karen Joy Fowler, New York Times bestselling author of Booth and We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves The beloved bestselling author of The Color of Air, Women...Paperback$3799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks-
The Black Eden
1956, the Scottish Highlands: Aaron and Robbie, a schoolmaster's son and a farmer's boy, are fast friends with a shared passion for diving, but very divergent ideas of what they will do with their lives. Meanwhile, Mark and Ally, bright pupils at Edinburgh's grandest private school, are aspiring to make change in the world – one through high finance, the...Hardback$5500Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks 
Texas
A contemporary classic from award-winning author Carmen Boullosa, in the tradition of Juan Rulfo, Jorge Luis Borges, and Cesar Aira, now available in a special Tenth Anniversary Edition. Loosely based on the little-known 1859 Mexican invasion of the United States, Texas: The Great Theft is a richly imagined evocation of the volatile Tex-Mex borderland. Boullosa views border history through a...Paperback$4900Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
Sherlock Holmes and Dorian Gray
Mysterious socialite Dorian Gray is at the centre of Sherlock Holmes' latest investigation in this astonishing, uncanny mash-up of Victorian mystery and horror. In 1903, Sherlock Holmes and Dr John Watson have tickets to the newly arrived Circus of Amun-Ra. Holmes is puzzled by his brother Mycroft's cryptic gift but is intrigued enough to attend the next production. The performers,...Paperback$2899Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Sergeant Salinger
A shattering biographical novel of J.D. Salinger in combat Salinger, mysterious author of The Catcher in the Rye, is remembered today as a reclusive misanthrope. Jerome Charyn's Salinger is a young American WWII draftee assigned to the Counter Intelligence Corps, a band of secret soldiers who trained with the British. A rifleman and an interrogator, he witnessed all the horrors...Paperback$4800Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
Saltblood
WINNER OF THE WILBUR SMITH ADVENTURE WRITING PRIZE A GOOD HOUSEKEEPING GOOD BOOKS READER FAVOURITE 'A gripping tale of one woman's extraordinary adventures ... Saltblood is a triumph of the imagination' — ELODIE HARPER, author of 'The Wolf Den' trilogy 'A ravishing picaresque told with fireworks, finesse and gusto' — PAUL LYNCH, author of Prophet Song 'A well crafted, salty,...Hardback$4699Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
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