Harry BowlingIn 1946, Pedlar's Row in Bermondsey is home to a close-knit community counting its blessings to have survived the war intact - and full of curiosity about the new...

Harry BowlingWhen widowed Ida Farran runs off with a bus inspector in 1949, she leaves her five children to fend for themselves. Preoccupied with the day-to-day task of earning enough...

Barbara TrapdioChristina and Pam are sisters less than a year apart in age. Pam is tall and black-haired, while Christina is small and fair. Brought up in New York, they...

Julie WaltersOscar-nominated star of Educating Rita and Billy Elliot's darkly funny debut novel.Cissie is a stand-up comedienne and national darling.Helena is the toast of Broadway.Maggie is an extremely beautiful but...

Author: Robert James Waller Offers a portrait of the ups and downs in one couple's relationship and the struggle of one elderly man to be free.

Robert StoneOn the cusp of the millennium, Jerusalem has become a battleground in the race for redemption. American journalist Christopher Lucas is investigating religious fanatics when he discovers a plot...

Amor Towles The bestselling author of A Gentleman in Moscow and Rules of Civility and master of absorbing, sophisticated fiction returns with a stylish and propulsive novel set in 1950s...

Tony ParsonsInto the booming, gold-rush city of Shanghai fly Bill and Becca Holden and their small daughter Holly - a young family seeking their fortune far from their north London...

Penny Vincenzi   It all comes down to love or money in a harrowing custody battle over a little girl, set against the glossy backdrop of the magazine and advertising...

Zadie Smith   Set in New England mainly and London partly, On Beauty concerns a pair of feuding families - the Belseys and the Kipps - and a clutch of...

Chatherine Chidgey   'A wonderful new talent' Nick HornbyGermany, 1939. Sieglinde lives in the affluent ignorance of middle-class Berlin. Erich is an only child living a lush rural life, aware...

Sara ShepardEVERYONE HAS SOMETHING TO HIDE - ESPECIALLY HIGH SCHOOL JUNIORS SPENCER, ARIA, EMILY, AND HANNASpencer covets her sister's boyfriend. Aria's fantasizing about her English teacher. Emily's crushing on the...