Penelope FitzgeraldShortlisted for the Booker Prize.In a small East Anglian town, Florence Green decides, against polite but ruthless local opposition, to open a bookshop.Hardborough becomes a battleground. Florence has tried...

Robert Hillman Tom Hope doesn't chase rainbows. He does his best on the farm - he milks the cows, harvests the apples, looks after the sheep - but Tom's been...

Jeanne Kalogridis Vivacious Sancha of Aragon arrives in Rome newly wed to a member of the notorious Borgia dynasty. Surrounded by the city's opulence and political corruption, she befriends her...

Author: Anita Diamant When Addie Baum's 22-year old granddaughter asks her about her childhood, Addie realises the moment has come to relive the full history that shaped her. Addie Baum...

John BoyneIf you start to read this book, you will go on a journey with a nine-year-old boy named Bruno. (Though this isn't a book for nine-year-olds.) And sooner or...

Chloe MayerIn 1944, in a sleepy English village, Daniel and his emotionally-distant mother, Annabel, remain at home while his father is off fighting a war that seems both omnipresent and...

Terry Deary From the bestselling author of Horrible Histories...Young Acheron is a liar. Everybody knows it. Troy is under siege and Acheron tells tales of Trojan bravery to entertain Prince...

Joanna Trollope writing as Caroline Harvey Lila Cunningham, motherless since babyhood, was almost twenty-one when her familiar, boring life in a small town on the Suffolk coast came abruptly to...

Nicholas Evans The motto of the boarding school to which Tommy Bedford is dispatched is Fortune Favours the Brave. It's 1959 and the school bristles with bullies and sadistic staff....

Ivo Andric A vivid depiction of the suffering history has imposed upon the people of Bosnia from the late sixteenth century to the beginning of World War I, The Bridge on...

Author: Julia Quinn ONCE UPON A TIME, A HISTORICAL ROMANCE AUTHOR CREATED A FAMILY… But not just any family. Eight brothers and sisters, assorted in-laws, sons and daughters, nieces and...

Author: Robert James Waller There are songs that come free from the blue-eyed grass, from the dust of a thousand country roads. This is one of them.And so begins a...