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Auschwitz, 1944. Alfred Mendl's days are numbered. But he has little left to live for - his family were torn away from him, his life's work burned in front of his eyes - until a glimmer of hope arises as he watches a game of chess. To the guards Mendl is just another prisoner, but in fact he...

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER The most anticipated spy thriller of 2020, from the award-winning author of Corpus. Autumn 1941. The war is going badly for Britain and its allies. If Hitler is to be stopped, a new weapon is desperately needed. In Cambridge, professor Tom Wilde is approached by an...

1977 : Martin Radford, jeune historien londonien dont la carrière universitaire a été brisée par un scandale, arrive sur l'île de Madère. Il y rencontre Leo Sellick, un millionnaire sud-américain, qui habite une superbe villa, naguère propriété du mystérieux Edwin Strafford, mort en 1951. Homme politique de premier ordre, promis à un brillant avenir, Edwin Strafford a été en 1908, à l'âge de 32 ans, ministre de l'intérieur du cabinet Asquith, aux côtés de Lloyd George et de Churchill, avant de démissionner brutalement en 1910 et de quitter la vie politique sans explication aucune pour disparaître dans l'anonymat.

Brought to you by Penguin. The September pick for Reese Witherspoon's Hello Sunshine Book Club ______________ TWO FEMALE SPIES. A BANNED MASTERPIECE. A BOOK THAT CHANGED HISTORY. 1956. A celebrated Russian author is writing a book, Doctor Zhivago, which could spark dissent in the Soviet Union...

The thrilling new novel from the author of The Thorn Birds One day, one city, twelve murders. The year is 1967 and the world teeters on the brink of nuclear holocaust as the Cold War goes relentlessly on. On a beautiful spring day in the little city of Holloman, Connecticut, chief of detectives...

Max Travers is an English teacher in Japan. When his manipulative boss begins swindling the unsuspecting parents of his students, Max must retrieve his passport to return home. Max sneaks into her office only to stumble upon a burglary in progress. Max barely escapes but accidentally takes a strange diary bound in leather and embossed with a strange seal. Little does Max know that this diary has been hidden for over half a century, and its secrets could topple some of Japan's most powerful people and rewrite the history of the royal family.

Find the truth; risk everything. A gripping WWII spy novel full of intrigue and peril from a modern master. 1942: A German spy comes ashore on a desolate stretch of Lincolnshire beach. But he is hunted down by a young detective, Richard Prince. The secret services have need of a man like him...

As the war approaches its end, Prince once more has to risk everything. Berlin, 1939: A German intelligence officer learns a top agent is quickly moving up the British Army ranks. He bides his time. Arnhem, 1944: British paratroopers have been slaughtered in one of the bloodiest battles of the...

1945. La votación de la Cámara de los Lores para decidir quién hereda la fortuna familiar de los Barrington ha acabado en empate. El voto decisivo del Lord Canciller hará tambalearse las vidas de Harry Clifton y Giles Barrington. Harry regresa a América para promocionar su última novela, mientras que su amada Emma se embarca en la búsqueda de la niña que apareció en el despacho de su padre la noche en que éste fue asesinado.

The sordid death of Philip Stilwell sends shock waves through the Alibi Club, the city's most infamous after-hours haunt, a glittering hotbed of deals and debaucheries. There's much more to Stilwell's untimely end than a sex game gone wrong. His murder and the desperate attempt to keep a deadly weapon out of German hands will bring together the strands of a twisted plot of betrayal, passion, and espionage, one connected to the Alibi Club — and to the most explosive secret of the war.