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 Ernest Hemingway's first novel, The Sun Also Rises, follows the adventures of a group of young, hard-drinking, American expatriates - which Hemingway refers to as the "Lost Generation" - as they pinball through Europe, from France to Spain and back again.

New York City, 1943. From jazz clubs to back alleys, passion and peril collide in this slow-burn sapphic love story that simmers through every twist and turn. Nightclub singer–turned–OSS spy Kathryn Hammond has a past she can’t outrun and a mission she can’t afford to fail. But when fearless reporter Jenny Ryan becomes her assignment, sparks fly and everything starts to unravel.

WHAT WOULD HAVE HAPPENED IF THE ALLIES HAD LOST THE WAR? America, fifteen years after the end of the Second World War. The winning Axis powers have divided their spoils: the Nazis control New York, while California is ruled by the Japanese. But between these two states - locked in a cold war -...

OVER 1 MILLION COPIES SOLD! The New York Times bestseller—for fans of The Nightingale and All the Light We Cannot See! From the bestselling author of Before I Let You Go, and the The Warsaw Orphan, Kelly Rimmer’s powerful WWII novel follows a woman’s urgent search for answers to a family...

What if you had the chance to live your life again and again, until you finally got it right? During a snowstorm in England in 1910, a baby is born and dies before she can take her first breath. During a snowstorm in England in 1910, the same baby is born and lives to tell the tale. What if...

'No, sir, nobody can make big money on what someone else tells him to do ... It took me five years to learn to play the game intelligently enough to make big money when I was right.' Reminiscences of a Stock Operator follows the remarkable life of its protagonist Larry Livingston as he begins...

1978. In the sleepy New York suburb of Tallmadge, eighteen-year-old Mira Winston is beguiling, talented, and full of youthful recklessness. She spends her summer perfecting her swing at her parents’ country club – and continuing her long-running affair with her father’s golf buddy, a...

LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE Penang, 1939. Sixteen-year-old Philip Hutton is a loner. Half English, half Chinese and feeling neither, he discovers a sense of belonging in an unexpected friendship with Hayato Endo, a Japanese diplomat. Philip shows his new friend around his adored island...

Two women, torn apart by war. One shared belief in the power of books... London, 1939. When war breaks out on librarian Joyce Kindred's doorstep and a call for help rings out across the libraries of London, she's determined to act. Joyce knows only the world of books can offer safety and comfort...

'A powerful and beautifully told novel about hidden secrets and the hunger to belong. I loved it' Clare Leslie Hall, author of BROKEN COUNTRY 'Has future classic written all over it' Red Magazine 'I loved everything about this book' Julia Quinn, author of BRIDGERTON A BBC RADIO 2 BOOKCLUB PICK A...

WINNER OF THE WATERSTONES NOVEL OF THE YEAR PRIZE 2023 THE TOP FIVE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER In 1914, war feels far away to Henry Gaunt and Sidney Ellwood. They're too young to enlist, and anyway, Gaunt is fighting his own private battle - an all-consuming infatuation with the dreamy, poetic...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE 2026 A Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year 2025 A New York Times Notable Book of 2025 A Telegraph Book of the Year 2025 A Guardian Book of the Year 2025 An Observer Book of the year 2025 'Supple, horrifying and mordantly droll' New York Times...

Britain, March, 1944. After a desperate aerial battle over Somerset, a German bomber goes down in flames. When Joan discovers the Luftwaffe pilot hiding in her barn, her first instinct is to turn him in – against her better judgment, she offers him shelter instead. As they work side by side in the fields, a forbidden love begins to flourish. As the walls close in on their unlikely affair, Dieter and Joan's lives become fraught with danger, until passion and patriotism finally collide.

Tender, moving, full of warmth and crackling with humour and the love of family, the exquisite new novel from the winner of the Orwell Prize for Fiction and the Irish Book of the Year... Something terrible has happened to Jack but no one seems to want to talk about it. His uncles can tell him...

Un romanzo sui sentimenti taciuti che portiamo nel cuore, sulla bellezza capace di resistere allo scorrere del tempo, sulla possibilità di volare in alto anche quando tutti ci pensano condannati a rimanere a terra. Palermo, 1914. Nella cornice di una città piena di profumi, in cui il fervore del Liberty sta spazzando via la polvere del tempo e negli alberghi approdano viaggiatori da tutto il mondo, si incrociano le ambizioni di Giulio Jacona e Irene Scordato.

With Special Guest Star ANJELICA HUSTON playing Thessaly Edwards. A socialite living in late-1930s New York City disappears without a trace in Unseasonably Cold, Amy Ephron’s elegant, melancholy noir of secrets, misapprehensions, and deceptions. Replete with beautifully observed period detail...

Nel 1942 a Lisbona, un rifugiato disperato ottiene due biglietti per l'America da uno sconosciuto, Josef Schwarz, in cambio di ascoltare la sua storia per un'intera notte. Attraverso i caffè e i bordelli, Schwarz racconta la sua drammatica fuga dalla Germania nazista e la ricerca disperata della moglie Helen. Il racconto rivela un'odissea di amore, persecuzione e morte, culminando all'alba con il passaggio dei documenti al protagonista.

La Première guerre mondiale ravage désormais la France. En Bretagne, les hommes ont quitté les champs pour rejoindre les tranchées ; les femmes, elles, font vivre la terre. L'année 1917 s'installe, et avec elle un hiver d'une rudesse exceptionnelle, qui éprouve les corps et les âmes. Dans sa ferme, Marie se bat.

De Milan à la Lombardie rurale, cette saga familiale bouleversante suit le destin de deux femmes – une mère et sa fille – prises dans la tourmente de l'Histoire. Italie, 1939. Enfant vive, Bianca grandit dans une belle maison milanaise où sa mère, Giovanna, travaille comme domestique. Le...

Retired US detective Emil Janowitz has lied to his wife for more than forty years. Losing his entire family as an inmate of Auschwitz Concentration Camp he found it easier than facing the demons buried deep inside. A letter from an unknown Aleksy Markowski sends him off on a journey, to hunt...