Glynis PetersAs the Nazis' relentless bombs fall during the Blitz of Coventry, six-year-old Rose Sherbourne finds herself orphaned and under the guardianship of a Cornish farmer's daughter, Elenor Cardew.Elenor knows...

David BaddielTHE SECRET PURPOSES, David Baddiel's third novel, takes us into a little-known and still somewhat submerged area of British history: the internment of German Jewish refugees on the Isle...

Sebastian Barry   Nearing her one-hundredth birthday, Roseanne McNulty faces an uncertain future, as the Roscommon Regional Mental hospital where she's spent the best part of her adult life prepares...

Javier Sierra Milan, 1497: Leonardo da Vinci is completing his masterpiece, The Last Supper .Pope Alexander VI is determined to execute him after realizing that the painting contains clues to...

Max Hastings "Monumental." --New York Times Book ReviewNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFrom one of the foremost historians of the period and the acclaimed author of Inferno and Catastrophe: 1914, The Secret...

Sally Hepworth A novel about three generations of midwives (a woman, her mother, and her grandmother) and the secrets they keep that push them apart and ultimately bind them togetherTHE...

Author: Julia Quinn Sir Richard Kenworthy has less than a month to find a bride. He knows he can't be too picky, but when he sees Iris Smythe-Smith hiding behind...

Janet Macleod Trotter She’s gone in search of happy memories. But was her idyllic childhood in India an illusion? After the Second World War, Libby Robson leaves chilly England for...

Laura Prescott ________________________'Tantalising' Sunday Times'Thoroughly enjoyable' Guardian'Irresistibly charged' Mail on Sunday________________________No one looks twice at the women in the typing pool.No one knows that two of them are trading secrets.The...

Lauren Willig A continuation of the series that began with The Masque of the Black Tulip and The Deception of the Emerald Ring finds Mary accepting a secret assignment from...

Dinah JefferiesThe Separation by Dinah Jefferies is a sweeping novel set in 1950s Malaya, about a mother searching for her daughters.A country at war with itself,a family divided and betrayed....

Charles Finch In the small hours of the morning one fall day in 1866, a frantic widow visits detective Charles Lenox. Lady Annabelle's problem is simple: her beloved son, George,...