What leads to political turbulence and social breakdown? How do elites maintain their dominant position? And why do ruling classes sometimes suddenly lose their grip on power?For decade...
Ralph Ellison's blistering and impassioned first novel tells the extraordinary story of a man invisible 'simply because people refuse to see me'. Published in 1952 when American society was in the ...
Rachel Carson's Silent Spring alerted a large audience to the environmental and human dangers of indiscriminate use of pesticides, spurring revolutionary changes in the laws affecting our air, land...
"Nothing but the darkness, and all around them destruction, and before them nothing but the fire - -a bastard people, far from God, singing and crying in the wilderness!"First...
Escape to the beautiful lavender fields of Provence this summerDel moved to the south of France three years ago and hasn’t looked back. She’s found new friends, new purpose,...
Will and Rosie meet as teenagers.They're opposites in every way. She overthinks everything; he is her twin brother's wild and unpredictable friend. But over secret walks home and ...
Can an ace detective outwit a thief with many faces?They call him ‘Gold Mask’: a fiendishly clever master of disguise whose crime spree has shocked Tokyo. The dogged d...
Eighteen-year-old Merricat may, or may not be, a mass murdererSix years ago everyone in the Blackwood family was poisoned by sugar laced with arsenic – everyone, that is, ap...
The price of love is loss.We all pay it eventually. . .Some moments are too painful to be endured, and some moments will break you if you let them.And yet I can’...
The brand-new novel from the Sunday Times bestseller - available to pre-order now!From the moment Lily Harper arrives at a remote retreat on the breath-taking Scilly Isles, she is itchi...
At the turn of the century, in the shade of Cambridge's cloisters, a young E. M. Forster conceals his passion for other men, even as he daydreams about the sun-warmed bodies of ancient Greece. Unde...
London, 1809. By day, minister John Church preaches to a congregation of commonfolk in Southwark. By night, he is drawn to the secretive, alluring world of a molly house on Vere Street. There, ordi...
The Lancaster Prep series is back but this time follows a new generation of students in this steamy, swoony, campus romanceEveryone loves Willow Lancaster, and every girl wants to be he...
The second novel in the new romance Blacklist series from the number one bestselling author Sylvia DayLily Black was presumed dead for years. Now she's returned to the unquestioning arm...
A seriously FUNNY, seriously CLEVER history of our early kings and queens by one of our favourite comedians and cultural commentators.This will be the most refreshing, entertaining history of...
WELCOME TO PARADISE!Or so the staff say as they greet the Hamiltons on the pristine shores of the idyllic Maldives resort.And it starts off that way: snorkelling in the sere...
The explosive and conversation-starting debut from a stunning new talent, exploring themes of consent and power, abuse and victimhood, memory and how victims can reclaim their voices.Th...
For as long as we've studied the mind, we've believed that information flowing from our senses determines what our mind perceives. But as our understanding has advanced in the last few decades, a h...
Newland Archer, an eligible young man of the establishment is about to announce his engagement to May Welland, a pretty ingénue, when May's cousin, Countess Olenska, is introduced into their...
'The small hopes and plans and pleasures of children should be tenderly respected by grown-up people, and never rudely thwarted or ridiculed'Continuing the adventures of the March siste...