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After a successful acting career, Rina is retired. DI Sebastian McGregor, is looking for a quiet place to recover his nerve after an investigation went terribly wrong. Young George Parker and his mother and sister are on the run from a violent past. They all think they have found sanctuary in the...

Set in 1943 this novel follows Polly, Verity and Bet - our three canal girls - as they learn how to run a canal narrow boat from London to Manchester, transporting goods and navigating an unknown world.

Ginny watches & waits for her younger sister to return to the crumbling mansion that was once their childhood home. Vivien has not stepped foot in the house since she left, 47 years ago; Ginny, the reclusive lepidopterist, has rarely ventured outside it. The remembrance of their youth, of loss, &...

This definitive guide will put you head and shoulders above your rivals. Packed with over 400 of the trickiest questions and expert advice on the perfect way to answer them, this guide is suitable for all job-hunters - from school leavers and graduates to carers returning to work and high-fliers ...

Bestselling author and award-winning former BBC Chief News Correspondent Kate Adie reveals the ways in which women's lives changed during World War One and what the impact has been for women in its centenary year.

Best-selling author, and the most famous woman in a flak jacket, Kate Adie sets out on a fascinating journey to discover just who is attracted to living dangerously - and why.

Danny - Dhananjaya Rajaratnam - is an illegal immigrant in Sydney, denied refugee status after he has fled from his native Sri Lanka. Working as a cleaner, living out of a grocery storeroom, for three years he's been trying to create a new identity for himself. And now, with his beloved vegan gir...

Every building tells a story: but in the jungle of Mumbai, one building - and one man - stands on the borderline between India's past, and its future.

In 1936, a young dreamer named Edmond Charlot opened a modest bookshop in Algiers. Fast-forward to 2017 and young Ryad arrives at Charlot's beloved bookshop. Once the heart of Algerian cultural life, where Camus launched his first book and the Free French printed propaganda during the war, it has...

Someone is trying to kill property tycoon Ed Vincent, someone so ruthless and determined that he nearly succeeded. As Vincent hovers between life and death in a New York hospital, Detective Marco Camelio chases after the only clue he has.