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One by one, she undid each event, each decision, each choice.  If Davy had remembered to put on a coat. If Seamie McGeown had not found himself alone on a dark street. If Michael Agnew had not walked through the door of the pub on a quiet night in February in his white shirt....

Riotous and all too believable, Whips is a timely satire on politics and Party people....

Big Brother is watching you.... 1984 is the year in which it happens. The world is divided into three superstates....

The first volume in Robin Hobb’s internationally bestselling Farseer series....

Animal Farm is George Orwell's great socio-political allegory set in a farmyard....

When Tiro, the confidential secretary of a Roman senator, opens the door to a terrified stranger on a cold November morning....

A wondrous, exhilarating novel about nine strangers brought together by an unfolding natural catastrophe....

Suddenly - tomorrow or the day after - girls find that with a flick of their fingers, they can inflict agonizing pain and even death....

While the world is still counting the cost of the Second World War and the Iron Curtain has descended, young Roland Baines's life is turned upside down....

A huge novel that follows five families through the world-shaking dramas of the First World War....

Rome, 63 BC. In a city on the brink of acquiring a vast empire, seven men are struggling for power....

The Diary of a Secret Tory MP is an outrageous spoof of the classic political journal that pulls back the Lulu Lytle curtains to expose extraordinary goings-on at Westminster across a tumultuous twelve months....

Our brains stay active for 10 minutes after our heart stops beating. For Leila, each minute brings with it a new memory.... 

What happens when we discover who we really are? And how do we come to terms with it?....

Book two in the magnificent Empire Trilogy by best-selling authors Raymond E. Feist and Janny Wurts....

When Moslem fundamentalists blow up a key Soviet oil complex, making an already critical oil shortage calamitous....

The second volume in this superb trilogy from the author of The Farseer trilogy continues the dramatic tale of piracy, serpents, love and magic....

In Bournville, a placid suburb of Birmingham, sits a famous chocolate factory. For eleven-year-old Mary and her family in 1945, it's the centre of the world....

From the world's biggest selling author, comes this thrilling story. The magnificent saga of Kane and Abel continues....

Shevek is brilliant scientist who is attempting to find a new theory of time - but there are those who are jealous of his work, and will do anything to block him....

A tour-de-force of historical imagination....

In Silverview, John le Carré turns his focus to the world that occupied his writing for the past 60 years - the secret world itself....

Vanessa Wye was 15 years old when she first had sex with her English teacher. She is now 32 and the teacher, Jacob Strane, has just been accused of sexual abuse by another former student of his....

Welcome to Chain-Gang All-Stars - the highly popular, highly controversial profit-raising program inside America's private prison system....

What happens when a Prime Minister suddenly stops being Prime Minister? That's the question facing Henry Tobin—Britain's least popular, shortest-serving post-war PM, who's forced into retirement 30 years early after a bruising election defeat....

Westminster in the 2020s, where the business of governing is the last thing on the agenda for anyone worth their salt. In the SW1 bubble, politics moves fast, schemes are hatched and foiled - through both accident and conspiracy - within hours, and sex and power preside. When Bobby Cliveden decides to campaign against the closure of her local mental health unit, she scarcely thought it would take her straight to the heart of the UK's bustling political centre.

London 1988: Agata grew up in post-war Prague and believes that her mother was the only member of her family to survive the Holocaust. But not everyone died. Agata's search for her ‘lost’ family, set against the background of revolutions in Eastern Europe, threatens to tear apart not only the family she already has, but her own identity.

Europe. Great Britain has long-since left the Union, but tensions between European countries remain, and the international balance of power is firmly weighted towards China and the US. Seizing the opportunity for an unexpected comeback, disgraced former Paris mayor Vincent d’Amont makes an outrageous proposal. France and Germany should unite to create a new superpower: Charlemagny.

A cadre of philanthropic billionaires contract a man to establish a new paradigm of prosperity in impoverished countries. He is a renaissance man with the iron will of a K2 mountaineer and the killer instincts of a Navy SEAL. One man armed with an idea who is collision bound with a murderous ruling class while the world sits on the powder keg of systemic corruption.

Set in modern-day America, post-pandemic and election. The new government, only two years into its tenure, already has the green-energy project up and running. And, with the midterms a few months away, it seems like a rather strategic time to push for the liquidation of all physical currency to E-dollars. Supported by the liberals and vehemently opposed by the conservative side of the country, both sides fight to protect their version of America, but what they do not know is that life is about change completely from all they knew it to be.

Welcome to Chain-Gang All-Stars - the highly popular, highly controversial profit-raising program inside America's private prison system. Harkening back to the time of gladiators, but watched by millions of live-stream subscribers, prisoners compete for the ultimate prize: their freedom.

Up-and-coming junior minister Gregory Buchanan has had a portrait painted of himself by the acclaimed artist Sophie White - a painting she intends to enter in this year's Archibald Prize. Until then, Gregory has hung it in pride of place on his dining-room wall. It's a life-sized standing portrait, practically photographic in nature. And it's a nude. His wife will be home soon and he thinks the painting will be a pleasant surprise. Even more surprising will be an unexpected accumulation of guests.

When celebrity aviator, Charles A. Lindbergh, wins the 1940 presidential election on the slogan of 'America First', fear invades every Jewish household. Not only has Lindbergh blamed the Jews for pushing America towards war with Germany, he has negotiated an 'understanding' with the Nazis promising peace between the two nations. Growing up in the 'ghetto' of Newark, Philip Roth recounts his childhood caught in the stranglehold of this counterfactual nightmare. As America sinks into its own dark metamorphosis and Jewish families are torn apart, fear and uncertainty spread.

Henry Farber, a well-meaning psychiatrist, is forced into hiding when the nation’s chief executive—a narcissistic autocrat in his disastrous second term—is found dead on the consulting room couch. From an isolated bungalow, Farber sets out to clear his name while offering an intimate view of a flawed populist leader. 

Eliza, Yesha, and James continue the growth of Pathway in their preparation for venturing beyond the solar system. Eliza works throughout the Western Hemisphere, and Yesha does the same throughout the Eastern Hemisphere. Both are on a race against time to bring humanity up to speed with their advancements, political ambitions, and philosophies as they rescue the weary, downtrodden, and even a few who make life miserable for everyone else, before sending them to their friend James.

Hurtling past the downtrodden communities of Depression-era America, painter Val Welch travels westward to the rural town of Dawes, Wyoming. Through a stroke of luck, he’s landed a New Deal assignment to create a mural representing the region for their new Post Office. A wealthy art lover named John Long and his wife Eve have agreed to host Val at their sprawling ranch. Rumors and intrigue surround the couple: Eve left behind an itinerant life riding the rails and singing in a western swing band.

Arrogant, entitled elites have run amok in a dysfunctional Los Angeles, using the rest of us as guinea pigs in a bizarre experiment to create a more servile proletariat. As usual, they need more power because…well, because the rest of us are too dumb to recognize how smart they are!

Sean's brother Anthony is a hard man. When they were kids their ma did her best to keep him out of trouble but you can't say anything to Anto. Sean was supposed to be different. He was supposed to leave and never come back. But Sean does come back. Arriving home after university, he finds Anthony's drinking is worse than ever. Meanwhile the jobs in Belfast have vanished, Sean's degree isn't worth the paper it's written on and no one will give him the time of day. One night he loses control and assaults a stranger at a party, and everything is tipped into chaos.

A stunning rendering of present-day Palestine, Enter Ghost is a story of diaspora, displacement, and the connection to be found in family and shared resistance. Timely, thoughtful, and passionate, Isabella Hammad's highly anticipated second novel is an exquisite feat, an unforgettable story of artistry under occupation.

An American aircraft carrier blows up and sinks in the Persian Gulf. Was it an accident? A terrorist attack? Does it matter? Maybe not. Not after decades of hostility and brinkmanship between the United States and Iran. And certainly not after a known Iranian-funded and supported terrorist organization launches an attack on an American naval facility in the middle of rescue operations.