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Shelley Harris on Vigilante

Some of you may recognize Shelley Harris’ name from her top ten bestselling debut Jubilee, which we published in 2012. In an fantastic new direction Shelley’s latest novel, Vigilante, follows the story...

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Watch Valerie Martin discuss The Ghost of the Mary Celeste

Today we are delighted to be publishing Orange Prize-winning author Valerie Martin’s breathtaking new novel, The Ghost of the Mary Celeste.  To the struggling author Arthur Conan Doyle, the ghost ship...

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Henry Marsh: What one brain surgeon does in his spare time

This pastoral scene is in my back garden where I keep bees (you can just see the red pillars of my workshop, where I also make furniture, in the background) on the fringes of Tooting, five minutes’...

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Extract from Stranger Than We Can Imagine by John Higgs

From relativity to existentialism, cubism to quantum mechanics, Stalin to psychedelics, John Higgs illuminates the twentieth century like never before. Recently I was shopping for Christmas presents...

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Prepare to be hooked: An extract from After the Crash

Picked as Waterstones September Thriller of the Month and described as ‘So extraordinary that it reminded me of reading Stieg Larsson for the very first time . . . I doubt I’ll read a more brilliant...

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Read an extract of Hubris by Alistair Horne

Alistair Horne has been a close observer of war and history for more than fifty years. In Hubris: The Tragedy of War in the Twentieth Century he revisits six battles that changed the course of the...

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The Hairy Bikers Blood, Sweat and Tyres: When Si met Dave

Blood, Sweat & Tyres is the book that every Hairy Bikers fan has been waiting for. Full to the brim with tasty morsels and colourful stories, this genuinely intimate memoir will move, entertain and...

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Start reading The Romanovs by Simon Sebag Montefiore

The Romanovs were the most successful dynasty of modern times, ruling a sixth of the world’s surface. How did one family turn a war-ruined principality into the world’s greatest empire? And how did...

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Start reading Isy Suttie’s The Actual One

The Actual One is Isy Suttie’s brilliantly funny memoir about that moment in your late 20s when you suddenly realize that all your mates are growing up without you. The invisible deal that Isy had made...

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Prepare to be Mesmerised . . .

We are delighted to share with you an extract from Wendy Moore’s stunning new book THE MESMERIST. From the author of the No. 1 bestseller WEDLOCK, comes the story of two pioneering men of science, and...

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