Author: Francesca Simon Bumper collection of three books in a top-selling series about an awesomely naughty child.

Jin Yong  China: 1200 A.D. The Song Empire has been invaded by its warlike Jurchen neighbours from the north. Half its territory and its historic capital lie in enemy hands;...

Alan Furst   Let Alan Furst take you on a journey through the cobbled streets and smoky salons of wartime Europe as the continent stands on the brink... Spring 1941....

John Boyne Odran Yates enters Clonliffe Seminary in 1972 after his mother informs him that he has a vocation to the priesthood. He goes in full of ambition and hope,...

Iain Hampsher-Monk Iain Hampsher-Monk’s lucid and accessible history of modern political thought is the introduction which many have been waiting for, providing a thorough guide to the ideas and writings...

Julian BarnesBeginning with an unlikely stowaway's account of life on board Noah's Ark, A History of the World in 10½ Chapters presents a surprising, subversive, fictional history of earth told...

Veronica Henry Sunshine, cider and family secrets... Dragonfly Farm has been a home and a haven for generations of Melchiors - arch rivals to the Culbones, the wealthy family who...

Michelle BatesTom's cousin has lent him Chancey, her stunning chestnut gelding, for the summer. But the once proud horse is in a terrible state and the owner of Sandy Lane...

David Grossman The award-winning and internationally acclaimed author of the To the End of the Land now gives us a searing short novel about the life of a stand-up comic, as revealed...

VS Naipaul Naipaul’s breakthrough novel is a marvellous comic tale of a Trinidadian of Indian descent striving to improve his lot. Continually making big plans for himself he constantly finds...

Lucy DillonLetters from the only man she's ever loved.A keepsake of the father she never knew.Or just a beautiful glass vase that catches the light, even on a grey day.If...

Sue GraftonA IS FOR AVENGER. A tough-talking former cop, private investigator Kinsey Millhone has set up a modest detective agency in a quiet corner of Santa Teresa, California. She's a...