***the beach-read of the summer, from everyone’s favourite getaway Queen, Mandy Baggot*** Tess Parks has made up her mind: love isn’t for her. When it comes to dating she has one rule: ...
Discover when to grit, and when to quitWe are often told that the secret to success is hard work, determination, and hours of practice. But in a fast-changing world, what if the really ...
'I defy you to read this book and come away with a mind unchanged' John Jeremiah Sullivan'Als has a serious claim to be regarded as the next James Baldwin' Observer'I see how we a...
'I write this sitting in the kitchen sink...'This is the story of Cassandra, precocious and charming, who begins a journal detailing her life with her bohemian family in a crumbling old...
Emily Charlton does not do the suburbs. A successful stylist and image consultant to Hollywood stars, she cut her teeth as assistant to legendary fashion editor Miranda Priestly in New York. But wi...
One Saturday morning a flooded kitchen leads best mates Ellen and Alexa into their attic.But when Ben - Alexa's date from the night before - walks in, the handle breaks, and all are trapped.<...
Published for the first time in the UK, one of Japan's greatest modern female writersIn the late nineteenth century, Tomo, the faithful wife of a government official, is sent to Tokyo, ...
Jack Gladney is the creator and chairman of Hitler studies at the College-on-the-Hill. This is the story of his absurd life; a life that is going well enough, until a chemical spill from a rail car...
Loosely inspired by a true story, this tender portrait of marriage asks: What do you do when the person you love has to change?It starts with a question, a simple favour asked by a wife...
In a rocky cove in the bay of Hakata, the bodies of a young and beautiful couple are discovered. Stood in the coast's wind and cold, the police see nothing to investigate: the flush of the couple's...
Charlie, drifting through life and dodging full-time employment, is in love with Miranda, a bright student who lives with a terrible secret.When Charlie comes into money, he buys Adam, ...
n love with each other, in love with New York.New York is where they plan to build the life they've dreamt about.New York is where Evan will be drawn into the high stakes of...
Eighty-five-year-old Hendrik Groen is fed up to his false teeth with coffee mornings and bingo. He dreams of escaping the confines of his care home and practising hairpin turns on his mobility scoo...
A special reissue from Head of Zeus's bestselling anthology collection of the best 100 short stories written by women, selected by Victoria Hislop, one of the nation's favourite novelists.
It is 1940 and the bombs are falling thick and fast on London. The royal family must do all they can to assure the British public of their solidarity. But what of the two young princesses - Elizabe...
She does everything right. So what could go wrong?Mackenzie ‘Mac’ Cabot is a people pleaser. It’s exhausting, really, always following the rules. Mac has dreams of her...
A memoir about motherhood and music from the bestselling author of I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS‘A brilliant writer, a fierce friend and a truly phenomenal woman’ Barack O...
At 44 Amy O'Connell thinks she's seen, heard or done it all. Until her husband Hugh announces he needs a break - from her. He is going backpacking for six months round Asia where he can do what he ...
Smartphones, skyscrapers, spacecraft. Modern technology seems mind-bogglingly complex. But beneath the surface, it can be beautifully simple.In Nuts and Bolts, award-winning Shard engin...
A dreamlike novel of memory and magic, Nostalgia turns the dark world of Communist Bucharest into a place of strange enchantments. Here a man plays increasingly death-defying games of Russian Roule...