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When Jonni Kendal comes to London to pursue her dream of becoming an actress, she's young, naive, full of courage and determined to excel. Just nineteen, she's desperate to escape...

From the bestselling author of A Woman of Substance, a page-turning epic Victorian historical family saga. London 1889: Victorian London is a place of wealth, privilege and poverty, a city...

The powerful new novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Don't Let Me Go.Lainey Hollingsworth has spent her whole life on the outside of a secret. Her mother would...

From the bestselling author of The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel and Tulip Fever, a deliciously funny, poignant and wry novel, full of surprising twists and turns. 'Unputdownable, fun and tender...

No one knows the name of 'the painter' who comes to the asylum in St Remy in the south of France, but they see his wild, red hair and news...

Sam and Lil are a devoted couple. They are united in their determination to take on whatever life throws at them. Problems such as their son Eddie's interest in new-fangled...

Discover the new Penguin Crime and Espionage seriesA crime novelist has found the perfect subject - but it may cost him his lifeEnglish writer Charles Latimer is travelling in Istanbul...

For you, I was a chapter - a good chapter maybe, or even your favorite chapter, but, still, just a chapter - and for me, you were the book.' Judith...

A story inside a story inside a story. A man visits his aging father in a nursing home, where his father writes the novel he imagines his son would write....

The path to happiness is rarely easy... A young woman struggles against family loyalty and class prejudices in The Tailor's Wife, an engrossing saga from Alexandra Connor. Perfect for fans...

Catriona McCabe, 28, only ever known as CAT, is trying to improve her career as a sports journalist and move on from a failed relationship. hat better way to do...

Welcome to Walls of Water, North Carolina, a place where secrets run thicker than the town's famous fog.Once upon a time, Willa Jackson's family owned the beautiful house on the...

'Someday, when I am rich, I am going to invite someone from my travels to visit me in America.'Brad Newsham was a twenty-two-year-old travelling through Afghanistan when he wrote this...

Winner of the Orange Award for New Writers 2009Artist, lover, wife, mother: can one woman be them all?Born in 1924, Jennet Mallow grew up with a disillusioned mother and a...

American Agnes Samuel is the kind of woman whom people remember: beautiful, witty, cool. But does anyone in the sleepy Fenland village of Warboys remember another Agnes Samuel, a frightened...

A funny, moving and insightful novel about dysfunctional families and our disaffected hero's attempts to cope with the possibility of paternity. Clyde Carmichael is an underachieving teacher at a posh...

Londinium's burning...This does for the Roman governor, Suetonius Paulinus, what I, CLAUDIUS did for the stuttering Emperor whose armies invaded Britain in AD43: an obscure historic figure is suddenly centre-stage....

This wonderful novel, set in England and Russia at the time of the Great War, tells the story of Alice Fry - an independent woman in a world ruled by...

It is the essence of Roberto Calasso's particular genius to have evolved a unique way of reconstructing the imaginative heart of some of the world's greatest cultures. In The Marriage...