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Shortlisted for the Romantic Novelists’ Association Historical Fiction award, The Agincourt Bride tells the thrilling story of the French princess who became an English queen.When her own first c…

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING TITLE THE ORPHAN'S TALE OUT NOWParis, 1919The nation’s leaders have gathered to rebuild the world from the ashes of The Great War. But for one woman, the City of Light …

This is Gladys’s story, one of four stories from The Sugar Girls. During the Blitz and the years of rationing, the Sugar Girls kept Britain sweet. The work was back-breakingly hard, but the Tate …

The much-anticipated new novel from the acclaimed author of ‘The Gift ‘ – a blend of detective novel, historical fiction and the painful coming-of-age of a confused young boy.‘Edgar was neither h…

‘The perfect summer read… Gorgeously compelling’ Good Housekeeping‘Full of mystery and long-reaching shadows of the past . . . richly drawn and compelling’ Rosanna LeyIt’s 1951. In Europe’s post-…

‘Do yourself a favour and read this wonderful book’ ScotsmanBased on the true story of conjoined Russian twins, Masha and Dasha Krivoshlyapova, The Less You Know the Sounder You Sleep is a tale o…

‘Do yourself a favour and read this wonderful book’ ScotsmanBased on the true story of conjoined Russian twins, Masha and Dasha Krivoshlyapova, The Less You Know the Sounder You Sleep is a tale o…

From the author of ‘Saturday Night and Sunday Morning’ come stories of hardship and hope in post-war Britain.The title story in this classic collection tells of Smith, a defiant young rebel, inha…

1815 год. Богатый грузинский князь Серго Асатиани решает жениться на русской подданной. Молодая невеста приезжает в далекую Грузию на предстоящую свадьбу. Однако под именем графини Елены Бутурлин…

«Эффект бумеранга» – мой первый, дебютный роман из цикла «Мистические истории». Действия романа происходят как в современной России, так и в средневековом государстве Речь Посполитая. Судьбы геро…

From comic verse to practical jokes, pornography to satire, acting to acrobatics, the Renaissance witnessed the flowering of play in all its forms. In the first wide-ranging and accessible introd…

A fascinating narrative excursion into a bizarre episode in 19th century Ethiopian and British imperial history, featuring a remote African despot and his monstrous European-built gun.Towards the…

За последние несколько веков мы совершили бесчисленное множество открытий, которые помогли значительно улучшить качество нашей повседневной жизни и понять, как устроен мир вокруг нас. Оценить всю…

From the Booker Prize-winning author of ‘Offshore’, ‘The Blue Flower’ and ‘Innocence’ comes this Booker Prize-shortlisted tale of a troubled Moscow printworks .Frank Reid had been born and brough…

A rip-roaring narrative celebration of the 21st century’s great transport success story: the bicycle. Millions of us now cycle, some obsessively, and this glorious concoction of history, anecdote…

Spanning the 20th century Ami McKay takes a primitive and superstitious rural community in Nova Scotia and creates a rich tableau of characters to tell the story of childbirth from its most secre…

Это вторая книга из нового проекта «Мифы пакта Молотова-Риббентропа» известного историка Арсена Мартиросяна. Она посвящена детальному разоблачению мифов, которыми окружена непосредственно предшес…