Alec Russell

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Alec Wilkinson

Aled Jones

Aleesha Nandhra

Alejo Carpentier (1904-1980) was one of the major Latin American writers of the twentieth century, as well as a classically trained pianist and musicologist. His best-known novels are The Lost Steps, Explosion in a Cathedral, and The Kingdom of This World. Born in Lausanne, Switzerland, and raised in Havana, Cuba, Carpentier lived for many years in France and Venezuela before returning to Cuba after the 1959 revolution. A few years later he returned to France, where he lived until his death.

Alejo Carpentier

Dr Aleks Krotoski is an award-winning international broadcaster, author and academic. She has topped the ratings for the BBC and Channel 4, winning Emmy, BAFTA, Radio Academy and Royal Society awards, and has written and presented landmark technology and social science series for both radio (with BBC Radio 4’s The Artificial Human and The Digital Human) and international television (with BBC World’s The Virtual Revolution). Krotoski has held fellowships at the University of Oxford and the London School of Economics and received an honorary doctorate from the Open University. She currently teaches at NYU Tisch School of the Arts.

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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was born in 1918 and grew up in Rostov-on-Don. He graduated in Physics and Mathematics from Rostov University and studied Literature by correspondence course at Moscow University. In World War II he fought as an artillery officer, attaining the rank of captain. In 1945, however, after making derogatory remarks about Stalin in a letter, he was arrested and summarily sentenced to eight years in forced labour camps, followed by internal exile. In 1957 he formally rehabilitated, and settled down to teaching and writing, in Ryazan and Moscow. The publication of One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich in Novy Mir in 1962 was followed by publication, in the West, of his novels Cancer Ward and The First Circle. In 1970 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, and in 1974 his citizenship was revoked and he was expelled from the Soviet Union. He settled in Vermont and worked on his great historical cycle The Red Wheel. In 1990, with the fall of Soviet Communism, his citizenship was restored and four years later he returned to settle in Russia. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn died in August 2008.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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Aleksi Hoffman

Alena Tkach is an award-winning Ukrainian freelance illustrator who studied Graphic Arts at Kharkiv State Academy of Design and Arts. She works mostly as children’s book illustrator and 2D artist. Alena loves llamas because they are cute and sweet, and when they jump it's really funny. Follow Alena on Instagram @alena.tkach.

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Alessandra Peters

Alessandro Manzoni

Alex Bellos

Alex Bellos is a journalist, broadcaster and puzzle master. He read Mathematics and Philosophy at Oxford University before becoming a journalist and writer. Alex was born in Oxford and grew up in Edinburgh and Southampton and lived in Brazil for five years as a foreign correspondent for the Guardian before returning to the UK He is the author of 8 books about puzzles and mathematics and currently writes weekly puzzle column for the Guardian.

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Isabelle Broom

On a winter morning she lost a piece of her heart. Can she find it? 
 
Evangeline isn't feeling festive this December. 
The frost and fairy lights only remind her it's been a year since she lost the mother who took her in as a baby and raised her. 
She's never felt more alone - until she discovers her birth mother's identity. And where to find her. 
A lifetime and thousands of miles have separated Evangeline and Bonnie. Now, travelling to New Zealand could be Evangeline's chance to confront the woman who gave her up. 
But is she ready for what she'll find there? 
The answers she's been looking for, a new family to heal her . . . Or someone she could never have expected?

One Winter Morning

Warm your heart this winter with this uplifting and emotional family drama

Giovanna Fletcher

Sophie May has a secret. 
 
One that she's successfully kept for years. It's meant that she's had to give up her dreams of going to university and travelling the world to stay in her little village, living with her mum and working in the local teashop. 
 
But then she meets the gorgeous Billy - an actor with ambitions to make it to the top. And when they fall in love, Sophie is whisked away from the comfort of her life into Billy's glamorous - but ruthless - world. 
 
Their relationship throws Sophie right into the spotlight after years of shying away from attention. Can she handle the constant scrutiny that comes with being with Billy? And most of all, is she ready for her secret heartbreak to be discovered and shared with the nation?

Billy and Me

Sarah is doing just fine. Sure she's been single for the last five years, and has to spend an uncomfortable amount of time around her ex-boyfriend and their mutual friends, and the rest at her tediously mundane job, but it's fine. She's happy(ish). 
 
But it's not surprising that when Sarah starts dreaming about a handsome stranger, she begins looking forward to falling asleep at night. Reality isn't nearly as exciting. That is until her dream-stranger makes an unexpected real-life appearance, leaving Sarah questioning everything she thought she wanted. 
 
Because people never really find the person of their dreams . . . do they?

Dream a Little Dream

Catherine Alliott

When Flora, James and their two teenage daughters are offered the holiday of a lifetime in a chateau in the south of France in return for one simple good deed, they jump at the chance. They exchange the confines of Clapham, the weight of the mortgage and anxieties over their future for a blissful break. 
 
But Flora didn't anticipate a mysterious guest and a whole heap of family baggage coming too. 
 
With James developing a schoolboy crush on a famous singer and Flora distracted by ghosts from her past, their dream holiday suddenly takes some very unexpected turns.

Wish You Were Here

Emer McLysaght

Sarah Breen

Meet Aisling. 
She's a country girl learning to love the city sophistication of unlimited Pinot Greej and brunch, though smashed avocado still mystifies her. She can plan anything, from Secret Santa for her ungrateful colleagues to a hen party for not one but two brides. 
But even Aisling is thrown off course when her job and relationship suddenly go up in smoke. 
Life in the city was supposed to be glamorous and grown-up, but all at once she's heading home to live with her mother. (Not without a detour to Vegas first - she's unemployed and single, not dead.) 
But between making new friends and rivals, and finding her eye caught by a very handsome but very unavailable new man, going home is full of surprises. Could small town life actually hold the answers Aisling is missing?

The Importance of Being Aisling

Flora's been in love with her husband for twenty years. 
The trouble is, he's been married to someone else for the past fifteen. 
 
Now she's been invited to spend the summer in the shady lanes and sandy coves of Cornwall. It should be blissful. 
There's just one small snag: she'll be staying with her former mother-in-law, Belinda. 
And Flora discovers she's not the only one invited when her ex-husband shows up out of the blue, complete with his new wife. So now there are two small snags. 
Can Flora spend the summer playing happy families with the woman who stole her husband's heart, and the mother-in-law who might have had a hand in it? 
Or will stumbling on the family secret change her mind about them all?

A Cornish Summer

Jess Walter

The story begins on the Italian coast in 1962. A young innkeeper watches in disbelief as a beautiful American girl gets out of a boat and climbs towards his hotel. She turns out to be an actress, on the run from the shenanigans going on down the coast in Rome at the filming of Cleopatra. A few days later international star Richard Burton, much the worse for wear, appears in the village too. 
 
Half a century later, and half a world away in Hollywood, an elderly Italian man shows up on a movie studio's back lot - searching for the woman he last saw in his hotel fifty years before. 
 
What unfolds is a dazzling novel teeming with unforgettable characters: the Italian and his long-lost love; the heroically cynical film producer who first brought them together, now a successful legend on the Hollywood scene, and his idealistic young assistant; and the husbands, wives and lovers, superstars and victims, who have populated their world since that summer day in 1962. 
 
Gloriously inventive, filled with surprises, Beautiful Ruins is a magnificent novel about love and fame, dreams and reality.

Beautiful Ruins

Carol Drinkwater

No one else knows what happened that summer. Or so she believes. 
Grace first came to France a lifetime ago. Young and full of dreams of adventure, she met two very different men. She fell under the spell of one. The other fell under hers. 
Until one summer night shattered everything. 
Now, Grace is living an idyllic life with her husband, sheltered from the world in a magnificent Provençal villa, perched atop a windswept cliff. Every day she looks out over the sea - the only witness to that fateful night years ago. 
Until a stranger arrives at the house. A stranger who knows everything. 
The past and present spectacularly collide in this gripping story of love and betrayal echoing across the decades . . .

The House on the Edge of the Cliff

Helen Cullen

Inside East London's Dead Letters Depot, William Woolf unites lost mail with its intended recipient. White mice, a miniature grandfather clock and a full suit of armour are among the more unusual items lost then found thanks to William's detective work. 
 
But when he discovers a series of letters addressed only to 'My Great Love', everything changes. Written by Winter to a soulmate she hasn't yet met, her heartfelt words stir William in ways he has long forgotten. Could they be destined for him? But what about his troubled marriage? 
 
William must follow the clues in Winter's letters to solve the mystery of his own heart.

The Lost Letters of William Woolf

The most uplifting and charming debut of the year

Lisa Jewell

Leah and Toby have lived across the street from one another for years without meeting . . . and Leah has been itching to peek behind the front door of Toby's eccentric house, always packed to the rafters with weird and wonderful tenants. When fate finally lets her in, Leah finds that Toby needs her as much as she is surprised to realize she might need him. Sometimes life needs a helping hand and with a sprinkle of romance and their own special magic, Toby and Leah's dreams show the glimmer of a chance of coming true. 
 
31 Dream Street is a wonderfully warm and insightful novel that will capture the imagination and soothe the soul.

31 Dream Street

Jojo Moyes

Lou Clark knows too many things . . . 
 
She knows how many miles lie between her new home in New York and her new boyfriend Sam in London. She knows her employer is a good man and she knows his wife is keeping a secret from him. 
 
What Lou doesn't know is she's about to meet someone who's going to turn her whole life upside down. Because Josh will remind her so much of a man she used to know that it'll hurt. Lou won't know what to do next, but she knows that whatever she chooses is going to change everything.

Still Me

Jane Fallon

Holly is feeling on top of the world - celebrating a new promotion and dying to pop the champagne with her best friend Roz. But is Holly just imagining things, or is Roz - who supported her every step of the way - not as happy for her as she should be? 
 
Something about Roz's behaviour doesn't add up. And soon Holly has the sneaking suspicion that there's a target on her back. Has someone been playing dirty in a war Holly didn't know she was fighting? And is Roz more tangled up in this than she'll admit? 
 
Only one woman can be left standing - but will the best woman win?

Tell Me a Secret

Elizabeth Noble

Tess has a secret - one which is about to turn her life upside-down. The only person she can confide in is her beloved grandmother. But Iris is slipping further away each day. 
 
Then chance brings a stranger into Tess's life. Gigi's heart goes out to Tess, knowing what it's like to feel alone, and an unlikely friendship blossoms. 
 
But something is holding Tess back - until she discovers Iris has a secret of her own. A suitcase of letters from another time, the missing pieces of a life she never shared. Could the letters hold the answers that Tess thought were lost for ever?

Love, Iris

Liane Moriarty

Trouble always comes in threes. And for sisters Lyn, Cat and Gemma Kettle, this year is no exception. 
 
Sensible Lyn is struggling to balance being a mother, wife and businesswoman without losing her mind. Cat's perfect husband has been hiding a secret that will tear their life apart. And directionless Gemma's latest new boyfriend might be the one to unlock her hidden past. 
 
But together the sisters are strong enough to withstand whatever life throws at them. That is, until the night of their thirty-fourth birthday dinner, when things are said that can't be taken back . . .

Three Wishes

From the bestselling author of Big Little Lies, now an award winning TV series

Meet Aisling. 
She's a small-town girl who dreams of the big city. 
She has a heart of gold and an iron belief in the power of control tights. 
She has a steady job and a loyal boyfriend (though he hasn't put a ring on it even after seven years). 
Then one disastrous romantic getaway convinces Aisling to leave him behind and head for the bright lights. 
But with glamorous new flatmates, a scandal at work and a weird love square, Aisling has no idea what's about to hit her.

Oh My God, What a Complete Aisling

'You know that was the best thing that ever happened to me, don't you?' 
She smiled. 'Me, too.' 
 
July, 1986. Vince and Joy have their whole lives ahead of them on the day they meet. Two weeks later they must part, each having lost a piece of their heart to the other. They won't see one another for seven years. 
 
Where will they be then? 
 
And in the years that follow? What will become of Vince and Joy?

Vince and Joy

The unforgettable bestseller from the No. 1 bestselling author of The Family Upstairs

Hilary Boyd

Stella's marriage ended decades ago, after a tragedy that not only shattered her life with her husband but shaped her whole relationship with her daughter, too. 
Now, despite the tensions that linger between Stella and Eve, Stella is called upon to look after her daughter in her time of need. She just hadn't bargained on being brought back into her handsome, stubborn ex-husband's life too, or that she would find common ground with Jack in their shared adoration for their little grandson. 
Just as the pain of the past once tore them apart, now the joys of grandparenthood are bringing Stella and Jack back together. But each of them has a new partner and new lives. 
Should they fight temptation? Should the past remain the past? 
Or are some loves simply meant to be?

The Anniversary

Alice is settling down. It might not be the adventurous life she once imagined, but more than anything she wants to make everyone happy - her steady boyfriend, her over-protective mother - even if it means a little part of her will always feel stifled. 
 
Max is shaking things up. After a devastating injury, he is determined to prove himself. To find the man beyond the disability, to escape his smothering family and go on an adventure. 
 
A trip to Sri Lanka is Alice's last hurrah - her chance to throw herself into the heat, chaos and colour of a place thousands of miles from home. 
 
It's also the moment she meets Max. 
 
Alice doesn't know it yet, but her whole life is about to change. 
 
Max doesn't know it yet, but he's the one who's going to change it.

One Thousand Stars and You

Take the romantic trip of a lifetime

Elizabeth Enfield

Meet Ivy and Abe. 
 
Childhood friends in the 1960s, Ivy and Abe were inseparable until a chance event tore them apart. Now in their early seventies, fate once again brings them together - both grey-haired, Ivy hand in hand with her grandson - to fill in the gaps of one another's lives. Each has experienced great passions as well as heart-breaking tragedies, but the time is finally right for them. Their love story seems, in the end, meant to be. 
 
But what if, in a parallel universe, chance had intervened and they'd met sooner? What if they'd met in their forties, both married to other people, and began an affair? What if they'd met before then and married, but the daunting question mark over Ivy's health had suffocated Abe's love for her? What if, as lovestruck teenagers, one small moment had sealed their fate? 
 
Ivy and Abe is a stunning novel about the different paths our lives might follow, and the different people we might become along the way.

Ivy and Abe

Jane Corry

Vicki's husband David once promised to love her in sickness and in health. But after a brutal attack left her suffering with epilepsy, he ran away with his mistress. 
 
So when Vicki gets a call one day to say that he's missing, her first thought is 'good riddance'. But then the police find evidence suggesting that David is dead. And they think Vicki had something to do with it. 
 
What really happened on the night of David's disappearance? 
And how can Vicki prove her innocence, when she's not even sure of it herself?

The Dead Ex

The Sunday Times bestseller

Arundhati Roy

'At magic hour; when the sun has gone but the light has not, armies of flying foxes unhinge themselves from the Banyan trees in the old graveyard and drift across the city like smoke . . .' 
 
Anjum lives in a graveyard, gathering around her the misfits and outcasts of Delhi's bustling streets. Tilo is a Kashmiri woman, brilliant and beautiful, fated to be loved by three rival men. 
 
When Anjum takes in an abandoned baby, it is Tilo who claims the child as her own - and so begins a tale that will sweep across twenty years, crossing the cities and forests of a teeming continent . . .

The Ministry of Utmost Happiness

Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2017

Nancy Mitford

'Obsessed with sex!' said Jassy, 'there's nobody so obsessed as you, Linda. Why if I so much as look at a picture you say I'm a pygmalionist.' 
In the end we got far more information out of a book called Ducks and Duck Breeding. 
'Ducks can only copulate,' said Linda, after studying this for a while, 'in running water. Good luck to them.' 
 
Oh the tedium of waiting to grow up! Longing for love, obsessed with weddings and sex, Linda and her sisters and cousin Fanny are on the look out for the perfect lover. But finding Mr Right is much harder than any of the sisters thought. Linda must suffer marriage first to a stuffy Tory MP and then to a handsome and humorousless communist before finding real love in war-torn Paris . . . 
 
The Pursuit of Love is one of the funniest, sharpest novels about love and growing up ever written.

The Pursuit of Love

Now a major series on BBC and Prime Video directed by Emily Mortimer and starring Lily James and Andrew Scott

Chloé Esposito

Beth has always been the golden girl, leaving her twin Alvie in her shadow. Beth has everything Alvie ever wanted - the money, the hot husband, the cute baby, the fast car. 
 So when Beth invites Alvie for seven sun-drenched days at her lavish villa in Sicily, Alvie accepts. Just because she can't stand Beth doesn't mean she can't enjoy a slice of her decadent lifestyle. 
 But her usually goody-two-shoes sister has a hidden agenda. And when the twins swap identities for a day, it ends badly for Beth. Very badly. 
 It's Alvie's chance to steal the life she deserves . . . if she can get away with it. 
 But what if having it all really means risking everything?

The first book in an addictive, shocking and hilariously funny series

Marian Keyes

The Break

Anna Pitoniak

This is a story of a relationship that falls apart. A story of heartbreak and betrayal. 
 
It is the story of a young couple who graduate from Yale in 2008, just as the financial crisis begins and there are no jobs for graduates. It is a story of their new start together in New York City and their tentative first steps into adulthood. It is a story of growing up and taking chances and making terrible, terrible mistakes. 
 
This is Evan and Julia's story. 
 
This is a love story. 
 
But no one said it ends happily.

The Futures

A New York love story

Nicola Moriarty

Poppy's world has been tipped sideways: the husband who never wanted children has betrayed her with her broody best friend. 
At least her new friend Annalise is happy to celebrate their freedom from kids. Together they create a Facebook group to meet up with like-minded women, and perhaps vent a little about smug mummies at work. 
Meanwhile Frankie would love a night out, away from her darlings - she's not had one this decade and she's sick of being judged by women at the office and stay-at-home mums. 
Then Poppy and Annalise's group takes off and frustrated members start confronting mums like Frankie in the real world. 
A rivalry that was once harmless fun is spiralling out of control. 
Because one of their members is a wolf in sheep's clothing. And she has an agenda of her own . . .

Those Other Women

Be careful whose side you take

Imagine losing the most important ten years of your life . . . 
Alice is twenty-nine. She adores sleep, chocolate, and her ramshackle new house. She's newly engaged to the wonderful Nick and is pregnant with her first baby. 
There's just one problem. All that was ten years ago . . . 
Alice has slipped in a step-aerobics class, hit her head and lost a decade. Now she's a grown-up, bossy mother of three in the middle of a nasty divorce and her beloved sister Elisabeth isn't speaking to her. This is her life but not as she knows it. 
Clearly Alice has made some terrible mistakes. 
Can she ever get back to the woman she used to be?

What Alice Forgot

Elan Mastai

This is a love story that could only have happened because of an accident of time travel. In it we meet Tom and Penny, who belong to a world so perfect there's no war, no poverty, no under-ripe avocados. 
 
But when something awful happens to Penny and Tom tries to make it right - you guessed it, with time travel - he accidentally destroys everything and wakes up in our broken, mixed-up world. 
 
Only here, Penny and Tom have a second chance. 
 
Should he try to fix everything and go back to his brilliant, but loveless world, or remain in our broken one and take a chance on being happy with Penny?

All Our Wrong Todays

A BBC Radio 2 Book Club Choice 2017

'I'd always lived a fairly blameless life. Up until the day I left my husband and ran away to Hollywood . . .' 
 
Unlike the rest of her family, Maggie Walsh has always done everything right. At thirty-three she has a proper job, is happily married to Garv and never puts a foot wrong. So why does she make a bolt for Hollywood and her best friend, Emily? 
 
In the City of Angels, Maggie gets to do things she's never done before: mixing with film stars, pitching scripts, partying non-stop. But is this really a once-in-a-lifetime journey of self-discovery, or is she simply running away from married life?

Angels

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British Book Awards Author of the Year 2022

Lesley Pearse

Cheltenham, 1991 
 
When Eva Patterson returns home from work one day, a devastating scene awaits her. Her mother, Flora, lies dead in the bath. Beside her is a note saying only: 'Forgive Me'. 
 
Eva is shocked to find out that her mother was once a successful artist back in the 1960s. When she visits her mother's old studio, she finds a collection of Flora's paintings and diaries. Searching for answers, Eva encounters a psychic who mysteriously warns her to beware of a 'sleeping serpent', which she soon discovers refers to a shocking crime in Flora's past. 
 
Will discovering the truth destroy Eva's belief in everything she holds dear?

Forgive Me

One mother's hidden past. Her daughter's life changed forever . . .

Green Ideas

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Greg the Sausage Roll

Grumpy Monkey

Guillermo Downes Thriller

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Hairy Maclary and Friends

Meet Nathan Byrn. 
 
He's half White Witch, half Black Witch 
His mother was a healer, his father is a killer 
He's been kept in a cage since he was fourteen. 
 
If White Witches are good 
And Black Witches are evil... 
What happens if you are both?

Half Bad

Hammarby Thrillers

Intellectually brilliant, cultured and sophisticated, with refined tastes in art, music and cuisine. And a pure sociopath. This is the series that launched the world’s number one villain – Hannibal Lecter.

Hannibal Lecter

Happy Families

Harlem Renaissance Series

Harold Fry

Harry Hole

Harry and the Dinosaurs

Hatchimals

Hattie B, Magical Vet

Hawk series

Hawthorne

He Who Fights With Monsters

Heart Hassle

Heartbreaking romances from Rebecca Yarros

Heartland Trilogy

Heaven Official's Blessing

Heavenly Bodies

Henry Pratt is the epitomy of the great British underdog. Nothing is ever simple in his world, just when it seems things are going right, life throws him another unwanted curve-ball. Join Pratt as he traverses the highs and lows of everyday life in this comic masterpiece.

Henry Pratt

Her Hidden Fire

To some a brilliant warrior, to others a devil in human form; Hereward is as adept in the art of slaughter as the enemies that gather to claim England's throne. With King Edward heirless and ailing, Hereward has been declared an outlaw. What is he willing to risk in order to save the land he loves? 
 
Hereward's tales are of heroism, treachery, rebellion and bloody battles, with William the Bastard never too far away.

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