The ANZACS: War Popular Penguins
The ANZACS: War Popular Penguins by Patsy Adam-Smith is a profound recollection of the First World War, capturing the harrowing experiences faced by thousands of young Australians. Gallipoli served as the final resting place for many, with death arriving so swiftly that escape or burial was often impossible. Following Gallipoli was the relentless torment of the European Campaign. To craft...Paperback$1599Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today
Rapture
Rapture is astonishing - a scorching vision of a book. Drawing on history, legend, speculation, and gossip, Maguire's medieval girl-Pope story is made of many things: flesh and earth and blood; ambition and abnegation; rage and transcendence, all pouring into this pagan, biblical, strange, and mighty work from an imagination in soaring flight. - Charlotte Wood, author of Stone Yard...Paperback$3699Elsewhere:$3999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today
Legacy
Seventeen-year-old Riki is worried about school and the future, but mostly about his girlfriend, Gemma, who has suddenly stopped seeing or texting him. But on his way to see her, he's hit by a bus and his life radically changes. Riki wakes up one hundred years earlier in Egypt, in 1915, and finds he's living through his great-great-grandfather's experiences in...Paperback$2500Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today
The Hidden Girl
Sweeping and evocative, The Hidden Girl is a lost treasure from the global number one bestselling author Lucinda Riley. You can't alter destiny... Born and raised in a small village on the Yorkshire moors, Leah Thompson grows more beautiful with each passing day. When she catches the attention of the influential, troubled Delancey family, she knows her life will never...Paperback$3000Elsewhere:$3799Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today
Only the Brave
Only the Brave is a heart-wrenching story of courage and hope set in wartime Berlin, from the billion-copy bestseller Danielle Steel. In 1930s Berlin, dark days dawn under Hitler's Third Reich. For nineteen-year-old Sophia Alexander, life will never be the same. The daughter of a respected doctor, Sophia has always believed that her destiny is to look after others, and...Paperback$3000Elsewhere:$3999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today
The Mammoth Hunters
Leaving the serene Valley of Horses behind, Ayla embarks on an adventurous journey with Jondalar, the striking man she has nursed back to health and learned to love. Their destination is the land of the Mamutoi, known as the Mammoth Hunters. This new tribe presents an initially alien and unsettling way of life for Ayla. Nevertheless, she endeavours to fit...Paperback$2300Elsewhere:$2499Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today
The Gilda Stories
A groundbreaking work of Afrofuturism before the term was even coined — Guardian A lush, exciting, inspiring read — Sarah Waters In this radically reimagined vampire myth, the night hides many things... Louisiana, 1850. A young girl escapes slavery and is taken in by two mysterious women. Rumoured to be witches, the pair travel only at night, dress in men's...Paperback$2300Elsewhere:$2600Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today
The Fallen Woman
The heart-stopping new historical adventure from the bestselling author of The Sugar Palace. Botanical artist Jane Saville is devastated when her manipulative mother banishes her to the countryside to protect someone else's honour. Isolated far from home, she is forced to live an impoverished, secretive life to save the family from public shame. Guy Attwood is heir to a fortune,...Paperback$3000Elsewhere:$3999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today
Unbroken
Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand is an extraordinary and gripping tale that recounts the life and struggles of American hero Louis Zamperini. The story opens on a harrowing note when, in May 1943, a US bomber crashes into the vast expanse of the Pacific Ocean. After an agonising period, a young lieutenant named Louis Zamperini manages to emerge from the wreck,...Paperback$2400Elsewhere:$2699Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today
The Mirror and the Light
The long-awaited and bestselling conclusion to Hilary Mantel’s Man Booker Prize-winning Wolf Hall trilogy, The Mirror and the Light, brings the faltering reign of Henry VIII to life with vivid and immersive detail. Picking up where Bring Up the Bodies left off, this tome begins in May 1536, immediately following the swift and brutal execution of Anne Boleyn. Thomas Cromwell,...Paperback$2799Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today
The Mauritius Command
In The Mauritius Command by Patrick O'Brian, the enthralling adventures of Captain Jack Aubrey and his close confidante, Stephen Maturin, continue with a mission of unparalleled complexity and danger. When Aubrey finds himself ashore on half-pay and devoid of a command, his spirits are lifted by the arrival of Maturin, who doubles as a covert intelligence agent with pivotal orders....Paperback$2500Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today
Number the Stars
In Nazi-occupied Denmark, ten-year-old Annemarie Johansen is called upon for a selfless act of bravery to help save her best friend from a terrible fate. Winner of the Newbery Medal. “They plan to arrest all the Danish Jews. They plan to take them away. And we have been told that they may come tonight.” It is 1943 and life in...Paperback$1800Elsewhere:$1999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today
Tales from 1,001 Nights
An enchanting clothbound edition of the essential tales drawn from the acclaimed translation of The Arabian Nights. Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality, colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design. Every night for three years, the vengeful King Shahriyar sleeps with...Hardback$3600Elsewhere:$4000Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today
The Book Club for Troublesome Women
USA TODAY BESTSELLER · SOUTHERN INDIE BESTSELLER · A BRENDA NOVAK BOOK GROUP PICK · GLOSS BOOK CLUB PICK · THE GIRLFRIEND BOOK CLUB PICK · A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2025 (SheReads) · Margaret never really meant to start a book club . . . or a feminist revolution, for that matter, in this bold and plucky novel from...Paperback$3299Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today
The Italian Correspondent: A thrilling post-war time mystery from the bestselling author of THE MASTERPIECE, for readers of Fiona McIntosh, Natasha Lester and Kate Quinn
Past loves are like ghosts. They haunt you forever. The stunning new novel from the bestselling author of The Masterpiece and Tuscan Rose. I was war-weary, sad and officially divorced - and that was a recipe for recklessness.Rome, 1951. Veronica Gold is in the city as the correspondent for Vogue magazine. As Italy tries to shake off its dark fascist...Paperback$3200Elsewhere:$3799Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today
Boleyn Traitor
Sister. Liar. Witness. Spy. Traitor? Her secrets shaped a kingdom. The truth will change history. Jane Boleyn watches from the shadows of the Tudor court, where nothing is more powerful than a secret, and power rests on the edge of a tyrant King's sword. She wears many masks—loving wife, devoted sister, and obedient spy. It's what a woman must do...Paperback$3199Elsewhere:$3799Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today
Kawai
Kawai: For Such a Time as This is the remarkable first novel by respected historian Dr. Monty Soutar, in a series that reveals the role of colonisation in shaping Aotearoa New Zealand. This compelling narrative is balanced with an honest appraisal of the country in pre-colonial times.Paperback$3199Elsewhere:$3999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today-
The Woman in the Seal Skin
A wonderfully atmospheric and compelling historic novel set in Scotland in 1695, from the author of All The Bees In The Hollows. Based on the selkie myths of the time, this is the story of Malie, a young woman struggling with grief, oppression, her relationship with nature and her own inherent wildness within during Europe's 'little ice age'.Malie grew up...Paperback$3000Elsewhere:$3499Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today 
The Midnight House
The spellbinding RICHARD AND JUDY BOOKCLUB PICK about a mysterious house and an old family secret . . . 'Wonderful storytelling. I loved it' Rachel Hore 'A mystery spanning generations, evocative and beautifully written' Tracy Rees 'A mesmerising debut novel, lush and gorgeous, with a rich family tale to tell' Richard and Judy Book Club ______ People disappear. Secrets remain...Paperback$2999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today
New ReleaseEvery Lifetime After
'A beautiful, hypnotic, emotional novel. I couldn’t stop turning the pages' CECELIA AHERN * Can they find each other in every lifetime after…? Claudia is searching for her past. Suffocating in the glamour of Hollywood, A-list star Claudia Baxter is desperate for an escape. But when she arrives at the Yorkshire estate of Doverley for her next project – an...Paperback$2899Elsewhere:$3699Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today
The Other Bennet Sister
Coming soon to BBC One, starring Richard E. Grant, Ruth Jones and Ella Bruccoleri 'Will delight Pride and Prejudice fans' - Independent One by one, the Bennet sisters have found their place. But what happens to the one left behind? The Other Bennet Sister is the brilliant, witty, and heartbreakingly relatable story of Mary Bennet. In Jane Austen's Pride and...Paperback$2399Elsewhere:$2800Unit price /UnavailableBackorderShips late August
The Last of the Wine
A VIVID, SWEEPING SAGA OF QUEER LOVE AND POLITICS IN ANCIENT GREECE, FROM THE QUEEN OF HISTORICAL FICTION'Renault's eye for intimacy is amazing' DOUGLAS STUART'Arresting and beautiful and moving . . . decades ahead of its time' LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKSYour love made me. Do not take it away; for without love I am a temple forsaken by its god...Paperback$2799Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today
The Daughters of Madurai
Oh my goodness. If I could give this book 6 stars out of 5 I would ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ One of those books that will stay with me for years and decades to come... ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Grabbed my heart and wouldn't let go! ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A joy to read ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ _____________________________________________________________ A temple city in lush southern India, Madurai is bustling with pilgrims and...Paperback$2799Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today
The French Kitchen
In The French Kitchen, award-winning author Kristy Cambron weaves multiple characters and storylines into a tapestry of secrets, betrayals, and redemption. Full of mouthwatering culinary scenes and peppered with several appearances from famed chef Julia Child, who worked in intelligence during World War II, this story of spies and lovers zips between the coast of northern France during the war...Paperback$2700Elsewhere:$3200Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today
The Ghost Ship
The Sunday Times Number One Bestseller 'I adored it!' - Santa Montefiore, author of An Italian Girl in Brooklyn Piracy. Romance. Revenge. Across the seas of the seventeenth century, two seafarers are forced to fight for their lives. The sequel to The City of Tears, The Ghost Ship is the third novel in the Joubert Family Chronicles from bestselling author...Paperback$2200Elsewhere:$2499Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today
Tales from the Thousand and One Nights
Offers unexpurgated translation of the best-known tales including such classics as Sindbad the Sailor. The tales told by Shahrazad over a thousand and one nights to delay her execution by the vengeful King Shahriyar have become among the most popular in both Eastern and Western literature. From the epic adventures of Aladdin and the Enchanted Lamp to the farcical Young...Paperback$2600Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today
New ReleaseCrescendo
A taut, sultry novel about rivalry, obsession and how far we are willing to go to get what we truly desire, set against the glittering backdrop of 1950s Paris. It's the summer of 1957 and Max, a piano prodigy, is on a sold-out concert tour. His beautiful twin sister, Natasha, serves as his manager and minder. But despite Natasha's careful...Paperback$2999Elsewhere:$3800Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today
Elektra
The spellbinding new retelling of the Trojan War drawn from the perspective of the fearless women at the heart of it all. 'The story and its characters swept me up and engulfed me, I could not put this one down' - REAL READER REVIEW 'I was glued to it from beginning to end and could not wait to recommend to...Paperback$2499Elsewhere:$2799Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today
The Winter of the Witch
The Winter of the Witch is a thrilling conclusion to the Winternight Trilogy - a magical series perfect for fans of The Night Circus. A magical and captivating coming-of-age novel set in medieval Russia - perfect for fans of Erin Morgenstern's The Night Circus and Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials. One girl can make a difference... Moscow is in flames,...Paperback$2400Elsewhere:$2600Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today
The Daughter Of Time
One of the best mysteries of all time from the much-loved crime Golden Age writer Josephine Tey 'A detective story with a very considerable difference. Ingenious, stimulating and very enjoyable' SUNDAY TIMES 'As interesting and enjoyable a book as they will meet in a month of Sundays' OBSERVER Scotland Yard inspector Alan Grant, recovering from a broken leg, becomes fascinated...Paperback$2400Elsewhere:$2600Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today
Lake in the Clouds
The epic tale of love and adventure, which captured the hearts of readers all over the world in Into the Wilderness and Dawn on a Distant Shore, continues... In spring 1802, the village of Paradise is still reeling from a typhoid epidemic when the spirited Elizabeth and her beloved frontiersman Nathaniel Bonner are forced to embark on a perilous new...Paperback$2400Elsewhere:$2600Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today-
You'll Never See Me Again
The enthralling new novel from the 10-million-copy, No. 1 bestselling author. Betty Wellows is running for her life... Young Betty dreams of settling down to an ordinary life in Hallsands with her fisherman husband. But when he returns broken and haunted from the Great War, she finds herself persecuted by his distraught mother and yearns to escape. It is only...Paperback$2400Elsewhere:$2600Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today 
The Pale Horseman
Continuing the outstanding success of The Last Kingdom, The Pale Horseman is the second installment of Bernard Cornwell’s fantastic series, following the fate of Alfred the Great and the forging of Britain. It is the lowest time for the Saxons. Defeated comprehensively by the Vikings who now occupy most of England, Alfred and his very small group of surviving followers...Paperback$2300Elsewhere:$2499Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today
All Quiet on the Western Front
All Quiet on the Western Front is often heralded as the most poignant anti-war novel ever penned. Written by Erich Maria Remarque, this masterpiece takes readers to the heart of World War I, diving deep into the experiences of a young German soldier named Paul Bäumer. Enlisting with his classmates after their schoolmaster's fervent speeches about the 'glory' of war,...Paperback$2300Elsewhere:$2600Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today
Katherine
Katherine comes to the court of Edward III at the age of fifteen. The naïve, convent-educated orphan of a penniless knight is dazzled by the jousts and the entertainments of court. Nevertheless, Katherine is beautiful, and she turns the head of the King's favourite son, John of Gaunt. But he is married, and she is soon to be betrothed. A...Paperback$2999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today
They Battled in Blizzards (World War II Close Up)
In the dead of winter, deep in the Forest of Ardennes, as the devastation of World War II drew to a close, a desperate Nazi army launches a surprise attack on Allied forces in the early morning hours of December 16th. As the ground is blown apart by mortar shells and an endless curtain of bullets rains down upon them,...Paperback$1999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today-
Persuasion
HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. ‘She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older: the natural sequel of an unnatural beginning.’ Written at the end of the Napoleonic Wars, Persuasion is a tale of love, heartache and the determination of one woman as she strives to...Paperback$999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today 
An Offer From a Gentleman
The inspiration for season four of BRIDGERTON, a series created by Shondaland for Netflix, from #1 New York Times bestselling author Julia Quinn: the story of Benedict Bridgerton in the third of her beloved Regency-set novels featuring the charming, powerful Bridgerton family. Benedict's Story An Offer From a Gentleman follows Sophie Beckett, who never dreamed she'd be able to sneak...Paperback$2300Elsewhere:$2499Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today
I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 (The Graphic Novel)
Nathaniel Fox never imagined he'd find himself in the middle of a blood-soaked battlefield, fighting for his life. He's only eleven years old! He's barely paid attention to the troubles between America and England. Instead, he's been worked to the bone by his cruel uncle. But when his uncle's rage forces him to flee home suddenly, Nate finds himself in...Paperback$1800Elsewhere:$1999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today
Super Sleuth
From million-copy bestselling author David Walliams comes his first ever murder mystery – with thrills, spills, and laughs galore. Dilly loves a good murder. Not a REAL murder. A made-up murder. One you would find in a murder-mystery novel. Sherlock Holmes is her favourite detective. She even named her dog Watson after his faithful companion and trained him to sniff...Paperback$1900Elsewhere:$2500Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today-
The Girl and the Ghost
A French village, new friends, fabulous food, a local mystery to be solved and... a ghost. She snaps the locket shut. Just as quickly as he appeared, the boy is gone. Josephine's heart is hammering. Her skin feels prickly and hot. Surely, she's imagined him. That's the only possible explanation. Because boys don't live in lockets. Not unless they're ghosts....Paperback$1699Elsewhere:$2100Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today 
Potiki
Patricia Grace's classic novel is a work of spellbinding power in which the myths of older times are inextricably woven into the political realities of today. This classic has been released in the Popular Penguin format to mark 50 years of publishing in New Zealand. The format reaches further back to 1935, when Allen Lane founded Penguin Books with a...Paperback$1500Elsewhere:$1599Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today
You Should Be So Lucky
An emotional, slow-burn, grumpy/sunshine, queer mid-century romance for fans of Evvie Drake Starts Over, about grief and found family, between the new star shortstop stuck in a batting slump and the reporter assigned to (reluctantly) cover his first season—set in the same universe as We Could Be So Good. The 1960 baseball season is shaping up to be the worst...Paperback$3199Elsewhere:$3799Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today
Tangled Webs
Tangled Webs is an inspiring romance about finding courage, healing and hope—perfect for readers looking for the next love story to lose themselves in, and the first book in Callie Coles' Spinning Silks trilogy. To the outside world, Sage Deverill has it all. In truth, her marriage is a gilded cage. When Sage flees, she takes her young son to...Paperback$3199Elsewhere:$3800Unit price /UnavailableBackorderShips late August
The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion
"I've arrived in London without incident. There are few triumphs in my recent life, but I count this as one. My existence of the last three years has been nothing but incident." The year is 1883 and Emma M. Lion has returned to her London neighbourhood of St. Crispian's. But Emma's plans for a charmed and studious life are sabotaged...Paperback$3199Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
The Count of Monte Cristo
Dumas is a master of ripping yarns full of fearless heroes, poisonous ladies and swashbuckling adventurers. The Guardian As seen on Write Around the World with Richard E. Grant A brilliant story of intrigue, retribution, revenge and redemption. Imprisoned for a crime he didn't commit, Edmond Dantès spends fourteen bitter years in a dungeon. When his daring escape plan works,...Paperback$2400Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today
Excalibur
The final novel in the Warlord Chronicles series by bestselling author Bernard Cornwell Arthur's final test of courage is upon him . . . Arthur has crushed Lancelot's rebellion, but at a cost. Guinevere's betrayal has left him reeling, and his Saxon enemies seek to destroy him while he is weak. Chaos threatens to engulf Britain. Yet Arthur is a...Paperback$2400Elsewhere:$2600Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today-
The Wolf Den
The first novel in a new historical trilogy set in Ancient Pompeii, The Wolf Den follows the story of Amara, a slave at the city's infamous brothel. But just because she's a slave now, doesn't mean she intends to remain a slave forever... A Waterstones Book of the Month 'Vivid, wise and unflinching, this is a triumph' The Times 'I...Paperback$2299Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today 
SAS Ghost Patrol
Meet the unit that posed as Nazi stormtroopers in the most daring mission ever undertaken SAS Ghost Patrol is the explosive true story of the day in 1942 when the SAS donned Nazi uniforms to perpetrate the most audacious and daring mission of the war. Beyond top secret, deniable in the extreme (and of course enjoying Churchill's enthusiastic blessing), this...Paperback$1999Elsewhere:$2499Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today
The Mad Wife
From bestselling author Meagan Church comes a haunting exploration of identity, motherhood, and the suffocating grip of societal expectations that will leave you questioning the lives we build—and the lies we live. From bestselling author Meagan Church comes a haunting exploration of identity, motherhood, and the suffocating grip of societal expectations that will leave you questioning the lives we build—and...Paperback$2899Elsewhere:$3400Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks-
New Release
Sunlight Finds You
A compulsive love story from a New York Times bestselling author that spins on the consequence of lies and our capacity for resilience. 'A cancel-your-plans, hold-your-breath, call-your-best-friend kind of book.' Amy Jo Burns A forbidden love blows open the world of a young woman, altering the trajectory of her life. Postwar America is a time of rigid social rules. But...Paperback$3199Elsewhere:$4000Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today -
The White Princess
FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE FAIRMILE SERIES, PHILIPPA GREGORY, COMES THIS COMPELLING NOVEL. Somewhere beyond the shores of England, a Pretender is mustering an army. He claims to be brother to the queen, the true heir to the throne. When Henry Tudor picked up the crown of England from the mud of Bosworth Field, he knew he would have...Paperback$2499Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today 
New ReleaseA Very Dangerous Pursuit
Adventure can be a deadly business. It began in the manner of all the very best adventures: in a coffee house. When one Richard Hannay—intrepid, inquisitive, and on the hunt for intrigue—encounters an old acquaintance in Constantinople, he has an inkling that something thrilling is afoot. Charged with an item of great mystery and import—a washbag, no less!—he soon finds...Paperback$2899Elsewhere:$3699Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today
New ReleaseWarlord of Britannia
The enthralling new drama in the epic story of Caratacus: the barbarian king who led the tribes of Britannia against mighty Rome. AD 43, Britannia. A barbarian land... Caratacus is warlord of his tribe. Only King Cunobelinus holds more power. The island's clans are constantly at war. Caratacus has relentlessly driven new alliances, but those are ready to crumble at...Paperback$2999Elsewhere:$3799Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today
A Short Road to Longbrook
A tender novel of mothers and daughters and the secrets they keep from each other, from the author of the mega-bestseller My Policeman. A tender story of mothers, daughters and breaking family patterns, from the author of the bestseller My Policeman, which became the hit film starring Harry Styles. When Winnie is happy, Lillian is happy, too. It's the mid-1960s...Paperback$2800Elsewhere:$3800Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today-
Medusa
A bold, haunting and captivating feminist retelling that reclaims the story of mythology's most infamous monster from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Medea. You know her name, you know her story. Just not the right one... Within the depths of the Underworld, the formidable snake-haired Gorgon has finally had enough. Tired of being eternally and unjustly brandished a villain,...Paperback$3800Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today 
Jackie: A Novel
'Take the incisive brilliance of Curtis Sittenfeld and add to it exquisite prose in the vein of Maggie O'Farrell and you have the novel Jackie. A truly astonishing achievement: to breathe new life into a woman everyone thinks they already know' —NATASHA LESTER The intimate life story of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, one of the world's most iconic women, told from...Paperback$3799Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today-
The Love Letter
Scandal. Love. Murder. When Sir James Harrison, one of the greatest actors of his generation, passes away at the age of ninety-five, he leaves behind not just a heartbroken family, but also a secret so shocking, so devastating, that it could rock the British Establishment to its core . . . Joanna Haslam is an ambitious young journalist, assigned to...Paperback$2500Elsewhere:$2800Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today -
When The World Was Ours
ONE MOMENT CAN CHANGE A LIFE FOREVER. "An exceptional read" — The Sunday Times "Vital glimmers of hope enlighten this profoundly poignant book" — The Guardian A powerful and heart-breaking novel about three childhood friends living during the Second World War whose fates are closely intertwined, even when their lives take very different courses. Inspired by a true story, this...Paperback$2699Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today 
I Must Betray You
Trapped by an evil dictatorship, will Cristian be forced to betray his family or will he risk everything he loves to resist? A powerful, heart-breaking thriller based on real events. I Must Betray You is a gripping tale set against the backdrop of a repressive dictatorship. Cristian has lived his entire life under the constant threat of fear imposed by...Paperback$2199Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today
The Woman in the Spotlight
When everyone is watching, survival will be her greatest performance... A gripping, utterly absorbing novel about survival and art as defiance on the 1930s Berlin stage, from the bestselling author of The Woman from Saint Germain. Berlin 1932: With the country in chaos, Monika Varády, a young Bavarian actress, arrives in Germany's capital with high hopes—to one day, just maybe,...Paperback$3199Elsewhere:$3799Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today-
The Afterlife of Harry Playford
From acclaimed writer Steven Carroll comes the second in his new series of post-war literary crime novels featuring Detective Sergeant Stephen Minter. Queenscliff, Victoria, winter, 1951 It's a cold, Monday morning. Mid-winter. No swimmers in sight. A deserted beach. And there on the sand, a neat pile of clothes. Almost like a coded message waiting to be deciphered. Detective Sergeant...Paperback$3199Elsewhere:$3799Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today -
Secrets of the Watch House
The truth is waiting to be told … Stunning SANTA MONTEFIORE Spine-tinglingly good AMANDA GEARD Incredible LORNA COOK Cornwall, 1934. Violet Ellis is living in the shadows of her father’s ruined reputation. So, when wealthy widower James Atherton offers her employment, she immediately begins the treacherous journey to his home on the remote Cornish island of Aoife’s Bay – despite...Paperback$2499Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today -
The Swiss Family Robinson
One of the world's most popular books is now available in a glorious gift edition. Written originally as European societies became enthralled by the idea of travel and exploration, The Swiss Family Robinson has become a timeless classic, read by every generation since then. This stunning new edition features deluxe cover treatments, ribbon markers, luxury endpapers, and gilded edges. The...Hardback$1999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today 
I Survived the Great Alaska Earthquake, 1964 (I Survived #23)
The most powerful earthquake in American history... Growing up in the Alaskan wilderness, Jackson has always prided himself on being tough. His family lives in a tiny cabin where their neighbours are grizzlies and wolves. The nearest store is a three-day walk away. Jackson loves his life... until a fire destroys the family’s cabin, and they have to move to...Paperback$1700Elsewhere:$1799Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today
Atalanta
The heroic story of the only female Argonaut, told by Jennifer Saint, the bestselling author of Atalanta (UK, Sunday Times, April 2023), Elektra (UK, Sunday Times, May 2022) and Ariadne (UK, Sunday Times, April 2021). 'Brilliantly evocative' Women & Home | 'A spirited retelling' Times | 'Beautiful and absorbing' Fabulous | 'A vivid reimagining of Greek mythology' Harper's Bazaar |...Paperback$2499Elsewhere:$2799Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today-
The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox
The intense and breathtakingly accomplished novel from the bestselling author of Hamnet and The Marriage Portrait 440,000 copies sold 'Seductive in style, prickly, disturbing and delicious' Olivia Laing Edinburgh in the 1930s. The Lennox family is having trouble with its youngest daughter. Esme is outspoken, unconventional, and repeatedly embarrasses them in polite society. Something will have to be done. Years...Paperback$2499Elsewhere:$2799Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today -
Bookish
Adapted from the major U&alibi series created by Mark Gatiss - out now! 'A delicious read' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ READER REVIEW London, 1946. Gabriel Book is an erudite and unconventional London bookseller married to Trottie, the owner of the wallpaper shop next door. He is also a sleuth who uses the chaotic riches of his stock to crack the puzzling cases that...Paperback$3799Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today -
Small Acts of Resistance
Sunday Times bestselling author Anita Frank returns with a breathtaking story of love and resistance... When his aircraft crashes in Northern France, British airman Henry finds himself stranded behind enemy lines. His survival depends on the courage and compassion of a local family who risk everything by hiding him in their farmhouse. With her village already suffering under Occupation, Marie...Paperback$2800Elsewhere:$3499Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today 
Aphrodite
'With its sharply witty prose, Aphrodite perfectly captures the charm and chaos of the Greek gods' Rosie Hewlett From the author of Herc, Winner of the Somerset Maugham Award 2024 and Waterstones Best Book of the Year 2023 'A joyful exploration of one woman's quest for home, power, identity and ultimately, freedom from fate. A genuine pleasure to read!' Clare...Paperback$2999Elsewhere:$3499Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today
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$5100Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today
Moscow Underground
Moscow, 1934. Moscow's glittering new subway is under construction at last. The first line will run through the centre of the city, cutting deep through Moscow soil. But futures cannot be created without digging up the past. Though Russia's leaders want to build a glorious Soviet capital, what holds them in a fatal grip is history: old mud and bones....Paperback$3799Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today-
Cilka's Journey
In 1942, Cilka Klein is just sixteen years old when she is taken to Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp. The Commandant at Birkenau, Schwarzhuber, notices her long beautiful hair and forces her separation from the other women prisoners. Cilka learns quickly that power, even unwillingly given, equals survival. After liberation, Cilka is charged as a collaborator by the Russians and sent to...Paperback$2499Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today 
Lady of Disguise
Readers who love the fairy tale charm of Melanie Dickerson, and the historical richness of Philippa Gregory and Bernard Cornwell, will be drawn into this riveting tale of courage, romance, and hidden treasures. Feel the tension and intrigue as a brave and determined young woman embarks on an adventurous journey to unearth the legendary "Giant's Treasure" in Melanie Dickerson's Lady...Hardback$3500Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today-
Daughter of the Home Front
A war. The girl she'd been. And the woman she was forced to become. A dazzling, heartbreaking story of friendship and redemption from bestselling author Jennie Jones. Daughter of the Home Front takes place in Townsville, 1942. Young women aged sixteen and over are obliged by law to join the war effort, and Emma Hatton's world is at last about...Paperback$3299Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today -
China
THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER 'Bravo; this is a big, complex and utterly involving portrait of 19th-century China' THE TIMES The internationally bestselling author portrays the great clash of East and West in his new epic: China China in the nineteenth century: a proud and ancient empire forbidden to foreigners. The West desires Chinese tea above all other things but lacks the...Paperback$2799Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today -
The Tangled Web
The sudden death of a beloved brother leads a young woman on a quest to find a missing boy and into a tangled web of mystery, blood, and fear. The Tangled Web is set in Maitland, 1892. When Viola Oswald's beloved brother Sebastian dies of a hereditary blood disease, Viola suspects her stepfather, the prestigious surgeon Elias Sinclair, has used...Paperback$2799Elsewhere:$3699Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today 
The Dover Cafe Under Fire
Brilliantly written and researched . . . I loved it. - Rosie Goodwin Dover 1941 With World War II in full swing, the unexpected arrival of a stranger at Pearson's Garage throws Edie Castle's life into chaos as she's forced to move back to Castle's Cafe with her family. Living with her mother is never easy, but when tragedy strikes,...Paperback$2600Elsewhere:$2799Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today-
The Game Is Murder
The Game Is Murder by Hazell Ward offers an intriguing challenge: Thirteen guests. Thirteen suspects. But only one is the murderer, and only you can solve the mystery... Introducing the most original murder mystery of 2025! You are invited to a very special murder mystery party. Thirteen guests have been gathered—rather, thirteen suspects. Only one of them is a murderer....Paperback$3100Elsewhere:$3700Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today
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