' Extremely atmospheric & unputdownable I loved it' Marian Keyes What readers are saying about The House of Secrets' Libby & Zoe are complex courageous & believeable & I found their stories absolutely compelling to read with a very satisfying ending''I cried I smiled I swore in anger at parts such a brilliant piece of writing'' Enjoyed every page of this lovely book & its lovely heroines Zoe & Libby Highly recommended for a great feel good read'' Finished the whole book in one night literally unputdownable' An ordinary house on an ordinary street built in 1936 & never lived in Its rooms might be empty but this house is full of secrets When Zoe & Win raw & reeling from a recent tragedy move into their new home it's meant to be a fresh start & a way to mend the holes in their relationship But pushed to the back of a cupboard is a suitcase that's been gathering dust for eighty years Inside is a wedding dress letters & a diary all belonging to a woman called Libby & there's something else in the suitcase something that echoes Zoe's own pain Zoe follows Libby's trail from Paris to Spain on the brink of Civil War to secret trysts in London & as Libby finds the courage to live & love again Zoe begins to let go of her own grief But when Libby's story takes a darker turn Zoe becomes increasingly obsessed with discovering what really happened all those years ago Because if Libby managed to get her happy ever after then maybe Zoe & Win can too Perfect for fans of Rachel Rhys Jenny Ashcroft Santa Montefiore & Kathryn Hughes ' An engrossing read' Woman & Home'A wonderful book' Heat' This beautiful dual love story is a real page-turner' Hello!' Filled with warmth & great characters' Stylist ...

For fans of Downton Abbey Atonement & Birdsong
- a compelling historical saga from popular TV historian Kate Williams 432 pages
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' Horowitz has captured Holmes Heaven' (THE TIMES)
- THE HOUSE OF SILK was the first official new Sherlock Holmes mystery & a SUNDAY
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Sarah is a narcoleptic who has dreams so vivid she mistakes them for real events; Robert has had his life changed for ever by the misunderstandings arising from her condition; Terry the insomniac spends his wakeful nights fuelling his obsession with movies; & the increasingly unstable Dr Gregory Dudden sees sleep as a life-shortening disease which must be eradicated A group of students sharing a house They fall in & out of love they drift apart Yet a decade later they are drawn back together by a series of coincidences involving their obsession with sleep
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Russia 1915 Sixteen year old farmer's son Georgy Jachmenev steps in front of an assassin's bullet intended for a senior member of the Russian Imperial Family & is instantly proclaimed a hero 496 pages Boyne John ...

WINNER OF THE CUNDHILL HISTORY PRIZE 2017 SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZE 2017 THE PUSHKIN HOUSE RUSSIAN BOOK PRIZE 2017 & THE LONGMAN-HISTORY TODAY BOOK PRIZE 2017THE TIMES SPECTATOR BBC HISTORY & TLS BOOKS OF THE YEAR' Masterful gripping filled with astonishing vivid & heartbreaking stories of crime & punishment of redemption love & terrifying violence It has an amazing cast of despots murderers whores & heroes It's a wonderful read' Simon Sebag Montefiore It was known as 'the vast prison without a roof' From the beginning of the nineteenth century to the Russian Revolution the tsarist regime exiled more than one million prisoners & their families beyond the Ural Mountains to Siberia The House of the Dead brings to life both the brutal realities of an inhuman system & the tragic & inspiring fates of those who endured it This is the vividly told history of common criminals & political radicals the victims of serfdom & village politics the wives & children who followed husbands & fathers & of fugitives & bounty-hunters The tsars looked on Siberia as creating the ultimate political quarantine from the contagions of revolution Generations of rebels
- republicans nationalists & socialists
- were condemned to oblivion thousands of kilometres from European Russia Over the nineteenth century however these political exiles transformed Siberia's mines prisons & remote settlements into an enormous laboratory of revolution This masterly work of original research taps a mass of almost unknown primary evidence held in Russian & Siberian archives to tell the epic story both of Russia's struggle to govern its monstrous penal colony & Siberia's ultimate decisive impact on the political forces of the modern world' An absolutely fascinating book rich in fact & anecdote'
- David Aaronovitch'A splendid example of academic scholarship for a public audience Yet even though he is an impressively calm & sober narrator the injustices & atrocities pile up on every page'
- Dominic Sandbrook'A superb colourful history of Siberian exile under the tsars'
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Peter Kristufek's sweeping family saga covering Slovakia's history from 1938 to the early 2000s explores the way the pressure of history makes a decent but weak man harm the people around him skilfully weaving into the narrative extracts from authentic period documents ranging from advertisements to poetry & diaries 560 pages Kristufek Peter ...

As a girl Clara del Valle can read fortunes make objects move as if they had lives of their own & predict the future Following the mysterious death of her sister Rosa the Beautiful Clara is mute for nine years When she breaks her silence it is to announce that she will be married soon to the stern & volatile landowner Esteban Trueba Set in an unnamed Latin American country over three generations The House of the Spirits is a magnificent epic of a proud & passionate family secret loves & violent revolution ...

In a cavern called The House of Thunder Susan Thorton watched in terror as her lover died a brutal death in a college hazing & in the following four years the four young men who participated in that grim fraternity rite also died violently Or did they? Twelve years later Susan wakes in a hospital bed Apparently involved in a fatal accident she is suffering from amnesia She doesn't remember who she is or why she is there All she knows is that her convalescence is unfolding into a fearful nightmare
- & that the faces that surround her pretending loving care are those of the four men involved in that murder years before Have the dead come back to life? Or has Susan plunged into the abyss of madness? With the help of her neurosurgeon Susan desperately clings to her sanity while fighting to uncover who or what could be stalking her Originally published under the pseudonym Leigh Nichols
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Precious Ramotswe has always idolised her father the late Obed Ramotswe She feels that she knows all about his life
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