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In 1942 Cilka Klein is just sixteen years old when she is taken to Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp. The Commandant at Birkenau, Schwarzhuber, notices her long beautiful hair, and forces her separation from the other women prisoners. Cilka learns quickly that power, even unwillingly given, equa...

From the author of the Booker-shortlisted Small Things Like TheseIt is a hot summer in rural Ireland. A girl is sent to live with foster parents on a farm, not knowing when she will return home. In the strangers' house, she finds a warmth and affection she has not known before and slowly begins to b...

Sister. Liar. Witness. Spy. Traitor?Her secrets shaped a kingdom. The truth will change history.Jane Boleyn watches from the shadows of the Tudor court. Where nothing is more powerful than a secret. And power rests on the edge of a tyrant King's sword.She wears many masks - loving wife, devoted sist...

A gripping historical novel set amid the New Zealand Wars in 1860. As English settlers wage war upon local iwi in colonial Taranaki, two women confront their pasts to survive the present. Frances is an unmarried Londoner newly landed in New Zealand, 1860, at the dawn of the First Taranaki War. Once ...

The exhilarating follow-up to Pat Barker's The Women of Troy and The Silence of the Girls After ten blood-filled years, the war is over. Troy lies in smoking ruins as the victorious Greeks fill their ships with the spoils of battle. Alongside the treasures looted are the many Trojan women captured b...

In a wise and magical follow-up to The Puppets of Spelhorst , Kate DiCamillo revisits the land of Norendy, where tales swirl within tales-and every moment is a story in the making.At the Hotel Balzaar, Marta's mother rises before the sun, puts on her uniform, and instructs Marta to roam as she will ...

'I want you to make a promise to me that you will always take care of your sisters. That you will always be there for one another. That you will not allow anyone to take you away from each other, ever. Do you understand?'When they are little girls, Cibi, Magda and Livia make a promise to their fathe...

All Hanna Fischer ever wanted to do was to study physics under the great Albert Einstein. But when, as a teenager in 1919, her life is suddenly turned upside-down, she is catapulted into a new and extraordinary life - as a secretary, a scientist, a sister and a spy. From racist gangs in Berlin to ga...

Tender, endearing, lyrical, surprising, and magical - think Hilary Mantel meets Sarah Winman with a dash of Philip Pullman - The Oxenbridge King is a delight, a true original.Imagine, if you will: the lost soul of King Richard III; a talking raven; a lonely angel; and a young woman called Molly Ster...

In the distant highlands, a puma named killing shepherds. Down in the lowlands, twins Iris and Floyd are out of work, money and friends. When they hear that a bounty has been placed on , they reluctantly decide to join the hunt. As they journey up into this wild, haunted country, they discover there...

A gripping tale of compassion, imposture, trickery and surprising alliances set against the backdrop of The Bloody Assizes, from the bestselling author of The Last Hours and The Swift and the Harrier. The much-anticipated sequel to The Swift and The HarrierEngland, 1685. Decades after the end of the...

Now is the time to fight to be heard. A gripping, uplifting story of love, change and hope at one of the most turbulent times in history - and the battle that changed the future for women forever, inspired by a true story.1907, London. As the winds of change sweep across the world in the new century...

A hilarious Sherlock Holmes parody that asks- what would happen if Arthur Conan Doyle's original, and rather old fashioned, characters visited us in the here and now? The greatest detective of all time has returned ! Meet an older, wiser and slightly more irritable Sherlock Holmes in a hilarious ser...

A hilarious Sherlock Holmes parody that asks - what would happen if Arthur Conan Doyle's original, and rather old fashioned, characters visited us in the here and now? The greatest detective of all time has returned ! Meet an older, wiser and slightly more irritable Sherlock Holmes in a hilarious se...

This is a powerful and moving story about a gay teacher in Auschwitz, who saved hundreds of children from death by providing hope under the darkest conditions imaginable.' Haunting and beautiful. Excruciatingly vivid, The Teacher of Auschwitz is rigorously researched and true to the history, powerfu...

Absence makes the heart grow fonder, but does nothing to heal the pain of spending every minute waiting to hear the worst.As the Second World War rages on, nurse Kitty Pattison's life takes a nomadic turn as her work with the Red Cross sees her traversing the country, moving from post to post.With h...

Could the shifting winds of change finally carry Kitty home?After five long years of endless warfare, Red Cross nurse Kitty Pattison has seen her share of heartbreak and loss. And now, with her beloved fiance Dr Michael McCarthy recuperating from a head injury across the ocean in Canada, and her dea...

A Parisian department store, a mysterious necklace and a woman's quest to unlock a decade-old mystery are at the center of this captivating novel of love and survival.London, 1953. Louise is still adjusting to her postwar role as a housewife when she discovers a necklace in a box at a secondhand sho...

The second captivating novel featuring intrepid heroine Tatty Crowe and the fascinating world of Sydney's Victorian funeral business, from bestselling historical fiction author Deborah Challinor.Sydney, 1871. Twenty-five-year-old widow Tatty Crowe is the owner of busy undertaking firm Crowe Funerals...

The enthralling new novel from the 10-million-copy, No. 1 bestselling author.London 1941 - When Mary meets a glamorous stranger named Elizabeth she realises their lives couldn't be more different. But when an air raid forces them to take shelter underground Mary's life is set to change forever. Afte...

In 1866 the initial rush for gold has been and gone Alexandra is fast becoming a town of dwindling opportuities especially for Ginny Doyle, an intelligent, young Irish woman with dreams of painting her way across Europe.This is a heartbreaking tale of two immigrants from different cultures falling in love in a time steeped in racism, prejudice and judgement.

Inspired by real history, the sweeping new novel from the bestselling author of The Other Bennet Sister, Janice Hadlow. Propriety of conduct was never my forte, so that if any lady chooses to make observations, they will always have enough to find fault with. Lady Henrietta Bessborough seemingly has...

Adelheid Brunner does not speak. She writes and draws instead and her ambition is to own one thousand matchboxes. Her grandmother cannot make sense of this, but Adelheid will stop at nothing to achieve her dream. She makes herself invisible, hiding in cupboards with her pet rat, Franz Joseph, listen...

At once a queer love story and a noirish thriller, set in the dream factory of cinema, The Silver Book is a fictional account of real things, and an investigation into the difficult relationship between artifice and truth, illusion and reality, love and power. 'It is dangerous to want someone this m...