Half of the world's population today lives in coastal regions lapped by tidal waters. In this title, the author explores the most feared and celebrated tides around the world, from the original maelst
Half of the world's population today lives in coastal regions lapped by tidal waters. In this title, the author explores the most feared and celebrated tides around the world, from the original maelst
Well-researched and well-written ... Superb' Professor Andrew Roberts, author, Churchill: Walking with Destiny In this culmination of five decades of acclaimed studies in presidential history, Doris K
The Sunday Times #1 Bestseller The great airborne battle for the bridges in 1944 by Britain's Number One bestselling historian and author of the classic Stalingrad 'Our greatest chronicler of the Seco
A charmingly subversive novel about a library in 1950s England, by the acclaimed author of The Cleaner of Chartres Sylvia Blackwell, a young woman in her twenties, moves to East Mole, a quaint market
'Think of Ruth Rendell morphing into John le Carré' Daily Express___________________The railway station is heaving with rush-hour commuters when the bomb goes off.In the subsequent enquiry, serious qu
An extraordinary new novel by the Pulitzer Prize-winning, Number One New York Times bestselling author of Olive Kitteridge and My Name is Lucy Barton Olive, Again follows the blunt, contradictory yet
THESE ARE THE WORDS THAT CAME TO ME.NO MATTER HOW THEY GOT HERE,THEY DID THE F***ING JOB.Iggy Pop hasn't left a mark on music; he's left it battered and bruised, too.Inducted into the Rock and Roll Ha
'A fascinating portrait of Victorian London' Observer'I devoured it in one sitting' Alison Weir 'Excellent' Dan SnowEarly on the morning of 6 May 1840, on an ultra-respectable Mayfair street, the elde
＊Shortlisted for Costa 2014 Book Awards 2014! 入圍 2014英國科斯塔圖書獎'Elizabeth is missing', reads the note in Maud's pocket in her own handwriting. Lately, Maud's been getting forgetful. She keeps buyi
A beautiful new planetA meaningful new lifeAre you ready?____________________________________________'Uplifting, unputdownable and mordantly funny . . . a truly original novel that captures the pleasu
In 1999, Vicki Archer, with her husband and three children, made a lifelong dream a reality when she bought a 17th-century property in Saint-Remy-de-Provence. She spent three years lovingly restoring
Oliver Orme used to be a painter, well known and well rewarded, but the muse has deserted him. He is also, as he confesses, a petty thief; he does not steal for gain, but for the thrill of it. HIs wor
THE BEST TRUE SPY STORY I HAVE EVER READ' JOHN LE CARRÉ A thrilling Cold War story about a KGB double agent, by one of Britain's greatest historians On a warm July evening in 1985, a middle-aged man s
Shortlisted for the 2005 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, Elif Shafak's The Flea Palace is a moving and highly original novel about a group of individuals who live in the same building and who toget
From Salley Vickers, bestselling author of Miss Garnet's Angel, comes The Boy Who Could See Death, an enchanting and unsettling collection of short stories. Eli is an ordinary boy with an extraordinar
From the bestselling author of Stalingrad, Berlin and D-Day, Antony Beevor's Ardennes 1944: Hitler's Last Gamble tells the story of the German's ill-fated final stand. On 16 December, 1944, Hitler lau
