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Hidden in Plain Sight is the second brilliant and captivating novel featuring William Warwick by the master storyteller and best-selling author of the Clifton Chronicles, Jeffrey Archer....

Homeless Bodies and Other Stories is an original fiction podcast featuring audio-exclusive short stories from award-winning authors and Sunday Times best-sellers, inspired by objects & artefacts from Wellcome Collection’s permanent exhibition, 'Medicine Man', in London....

Ponniyin Selvan is a historical novel by Kalki Krishnamurthy, written in Tamil. In five volumes, it tells the story of early days of Arulmozhivarman, who later became the great Chola emperor Rajaraja Chola I....

Often called the greatest novel ever written, War and Peace is at once an epic of the Napoleonic wars, a philosophical study, and a celebration of the Russian spirit....

Saleem Sinai is born on the stroke of midnight on 14th-15th August 1947, at the exact moment that India and Pakistan become separate, independent nations....

Ella Rubinstein has a husband, three teenage children, and a pleasant home. Everything that should make her confident and fulfilled. Yet there is an emptiness at the heart of Ella's life - an emptiness once filled by love....

Benedict Cumberbatch reads these four new Sherlock Holmes stories by John Taylor....

One rainy afternoon in Istanbul, a woman walks into a doctor's surgery. 'I need to have an abortion', she announces. She is 19 years old and unmarried. What happens that afternoon will change her life.... 

A masterpiece from the Orange Prize-winning, New York Times number one best-selling author of Commonwealth and Bel Canto: a story of love, family, sacrifice and the power of place....

The classic samurai novel about the real exploits of the most famous swordsman. Miyamoto Musashi becomes a reluctant hero to a host of people whose lives he has touched and by whom he has been touched. Inevitably, he has to pit his skill against the naked blade of his greatest rival....

It is meant to be a celebration, but it ends in tragedy. As fireworks explode overhead, Evelyn Hardcastle, the young and beautiful daughter of the house, is killed....

The story of Ravana and his people has been told innumerable times. This is the Hindi translation of the number one national best seller. This saga is of victory and defeat - a story that has been tainted by India's oppressed and exploited caste for 3,000 years....

Delve deeper into the world of the Earthsinger Chronicles with these prequel novellas full of magic, adventure, destiny, and love.

A thousand years ago, the mighty Cahokian civilization dominated the North American continent. At the heart of the empire stood a vast city, teeming with tens of thousands of residents, traders, and travelers. The city of Cahokia sent settlers and priests throughout the continent, from Wisconsin to the Gulf of Mexico, carrying word of the power of their gods. People who wouldn't bow to that power were conquered or slaughtered. Power rested in one being, Morning Star, a god resurrected in the body of a living man.

"Glaubt mir, die Welt wird euch nichts schenken. Wenn ihr ein Leben wollt, so stehlt es." Philosophin, Schriftstellerin, Rebellin: Lou Andreas-Salomé ist eine der klügsten und zugleich freiesten Frauen ihrer Zeit, die als Liebende stets ihr Herz für sich behält - bis sie dem jungen Rilke begegnet und mit ihm das "totale Ineinanderleben" erlebt, ihre erste Beziehung, in der sich intellektuelle, emotionale und körperliche Liebe vereinen. Doch Rilke psychische Verfassung wird immer labiler, und er engt sie zunehmend ein - muss Lou sich von der Liebe abwenden, um frei zu bleiben?

Finn Featherstone, once a puny outcast, is now a Champion in training. Resting in the baldric across his back is none other than Jigsaw, a magical weapon with untold possibilities. This odd instrument of power is one of the hundreds of swords known as Bizarre Blades, a unique and priceless weapon that Kings have sold their Kingdoms just to obtain. Having been stranded in the freezing woods of Shimoshimo, Finn trains hard day in and day out while trying to survive in the deadly weather.

Set in 1920s Montana, this compelling domestic drama tells the story of two brothers - and of the woman and young boy, mother and son, whose arrival on the brothers' ranch shatters an already tenuous peace. From the novel's startling first paragraph to its very last word, Thomas Savage's voice - and the intense passion and cruelty of his characters - holds listeners in thrall. 

The year 1921 is the year of the Irish Civil War and the year of the separation of Ireland into two nations, south and north. The central character is Henry Mooney, a journalist (based upon the author's grandfather), who struggles for truth in his reporting during the terrible conflict, and falls in love with an Englishwoman in Ireland in the midst of political and military horrors.