From the best-selling and award-winning author of Paris 1919 comes a masterpiece of narrative nonfiction, a fascinating portrait of Europe from 1900 up to the outbreak of World War I.  The century since the end of the Napoleonic wars had been the mos...

The War That Ended Peace

The nightmare no parent could endure. The case no detective could solve. The twist no listener could predict.  For five days in January 1989, the parents of a seven-year-old Tokyo schoolgirl sat and listened to the demands of their daughter's kidnapp...

Six Four

In the wink of an eye, as quick as a flea, the Devil he jumped from me to thee. And only when the Devil had gone, did I know that he and I'd been one.... Every autumn, John Pentecost returns to the farm where he grew up to help gather the sheep down ...

Devil's Day

The eerie, suspenseful debut novel that is hailed by Stephen King as "an amazing piece of fiction" and taking the world by storm.  When the remains of a young child are discovered during a winter storm on a stretch of the bleak Lancashire coastline k...

The Loney

At the age of 17, after a childhood in an fostered family followed by six years in care homes, Norman Greenwood was given his birth certificate. He learned that his real name was not Norman. It was Lemn Sissay. He was British and Ethiopian. And he le...

My Name Is Why

Vienna, 1902: a beautiful medium has been found shot dead, and Dr Max Liebermann, a young disciple of Sigmund Freud, is called upon to help his friend Detective Inspector Oskar Rheinhardt investigate her death. The room containing the body has been l...

Mortal Mischief

Deep in the trenches of Flanders Fields, men are dying in the thousands every day. So one more death shouldn't be a surprise.  But then a body turns up with bizarre injuries, and Sherlock Holmes' former sidekick, Dr. John Watson - unable to fight for...

Dead Man's Land

Deep in England's green and pleasant land something evil lurks....  Dr. John Watson is back home, fresh from his time in the trenches of Flanders Fields. The horrors of war weigh heavy on his mind, and now his task is to help rehabilitate soldiers su...

The Dead Can Wait

Six Four. The nightmare no parent could endure. The case no detective could solve. The twist no listener could predict.  For five days in January 1989, the parents of a seven-year-old Tokyo schoolgirl sat and listened to the demands of their daughter...

A stunning Dr. Watson thriller perfect for all fans of Sherlock.  The year is 1917, and Dr. John Watson is held in a notorious POW camp deep in enemy Germany, there as medical officer for the British prisoners.  With the Allied blockade, food is peri...

A Study in Murder

The skies above London hum with danger. And in the Channel, enemies lie in wait....  Autumn, 1917. London is not the city that Dr. John Watson and Sherlock Holmes once bestrode like giants. Terror has come from the sky, and Londoners are scurrying un...

The Sign of Fear

From the author of Apple Tree Yard, a masterful thriller about espionage, love, and redemption  John Harper is in hiding in a remote hut on a tropical island. As he lies awake at night, listening to the rain on the roof, he believes his life may be i...

Black Water

The First World War followed a period of sustained peace in Europe during which people talked with confidence of prosperity, progress and hope. But in 1914, Europe walked into a catastrophic conflict which killed millions of its men, bled its economi...

The War that Ended Peace

William Pitt the Younger is an illuminating biography of one of the great iconic figures in British history: the man who in 1784 at the age of twenty-four became (and so remains) the youngest Prime Minister in the history of England. In this lively a...

William Pitt The Younger

In 1944, as waves of German ninjas parachute into Kent, Britain's best hopes for victory lie with a Spitfire pilot codenamed Ack-Ack Macaque. The trouble is, Ack-Ack Macaque is a cynical, one-eyed, cigar-chomping monkey, and he's starting to doubt ev...

Ack-Ack Macaque

The British Book Awards Book of the Year 2016.  Winner of the Costa First Novel Award 2015. Shortlisted for the Independent Book Week Award 2016.  If it had another name, I never knew, but the locals called it the Loney - that strange nowhere between...

National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author Geoff Dyer—“one of our greatest living critics” (New York Magazine)—presents an extended meditation on the late styles and last works of some of the world’s most gifted and celebrated people. Much att...

The Last Days of Roger Federer

England, 1311. In the dark of the North the devil lies in wait....  Paul Doherty's most popular series character returns in the gripping 19th mystery in the Hugh Corbett series. If you love the historical mysteries of C. J. Sansom, E. M. Powell and B...

Devil's Wolf

1311. Murder and mayhem prowl the highways and coffin paths of Medieval England....  Hugh Corbett returns in the 20th gripping mystery in Paul Doherty's ever-popular series. If you love the historical mysteries of C. J. Sansom, E. M. Powell and Berna...

Death's Dark Valley

Propelled to stardom at the age of 15, until his tragic death from cancer at the age of 53, this is the story of actor Jack Wild, in his own words - published for the first time.  Jack was just an ordinary young boy whose talent was spotted by chance...

Jack Wild: It's a Dodger's Life

A beautiful June day in the Yorkshire Dales, and a group of children are spending the last of their half-term freedom swimming in the river near Hindswell Woods. But the idyll is shattered by their discovery of a man's body, hanging from a tree. DI A...

All the Colours of Darkness

The outspoken and hard-hitting autobiography of one of the most highly rated, recognisable and controversial football referees of modern times. Mark Clattenburg found himself in the centre circle, whistle in hand, at the start of 450 Premier League m...

Whistle Blower

The autobiography of one of the greatest goalkeepers of all time. Why me? How could a boy from a Copenhagen tower block say I want to be a champion with Manchester United and Denmark and make it happen? Peter Schmeichel is a giant of football, who wo...

Winter in Vienna, 1902: a serial killer embarks upon a bizarre campaign of murder. In this second volume of the Liebermann Papers, Liebermann struggles with his own demons, against a backdrop of mystery and terror.

Vienna Blood

February 1941, wartime Berlin. Brilliant, idealistic young detective Georg Heuser joins the Murder Squad in the midst of the biggest manhunt the city has ever seen. A serial killer is slaughtering women on S-Bahn trains and leaving their battered bod...

Ostland

With the publication of On the Origin of Species, Charles Darwin, hailed as the man who "discovered evolution", was propelled into the pantheon of great scientific thinkers, alongside Galileo, Copernicus, and Newton. Eminent writer A. N. Wilson chall...

Charles Darwin

When Karen Drew is found sitting in her wheelchair staring out to sea with her throat cut one chilly morning, DI Annie Cabbot, on loan to Eastern Area, gets lumbered with the case. Back in Eastvale, that same Sunday morning, 19-year-old Hayley Daniel...

Friend of the Devil

In April 1915 Dorothea Crewdson, a newly trained Red Cross nurse, and her best friend, Christie, received instructions to leave for Le Treport in Northern France. Filled with excitement at the prospect of her first paid job, Dorothea began writing a ...

Dorothea's War

Harper wakes every night, terrified of the sounds outside his hut halfway up the mountain in Bali. He is afraid that his past as a mercenary has caught up with him and that his life may now be in danger.  As he waits to discover his fate, he meets Ri...

1066 – Senlac Ridge, England. William the Bastard, Duke of Normandy, defeats Harold Godwinson, King Harold II of England, in what will become known as the Battle of Hastings. But England will not be conquered easily, the Anglo-Saxons will not submit ...

Conquest

Book of the year in The Times, The Sunday Times, FT and Mail on Sunday  In the wink of an eye, as quick as a flea,  The Devil he jumped from me to thee.  And only when the Devil had gone,  Did I know that he and I'd been one....  Every autumn, John P...

Target Tirpitz is gripping WW2 storytelling at its best and a return to the RAF territory of Patrick Bishop’s bestselling Bomber Boys and Fighter Boys. The Tirpitz, Hitler’s greatest weapon, was reputed to be unsinkable and the battleship inflamed an...

Target Tirpitz

In order to hide from his unwanted fame as the spitfire pilot-monkey who emerged from a computer game to defeat the nefarious corporation that engineered him, the charismatic and dangerous Ack-Ack Macaque is working as a pilot on a world-circling nuc...

Hive Monkey

Infinite monkeys. He's saved the world twice. Now the dangerous but charismatic Ack-Ack Macaque finds himself leading a dimension-hopping band of angry monkeys, facing an invading horde of implacable killer androids, and confronting the one challenge...

Macaque Attack

Fast bowler, six-hitter, popular hero, one of the lads, king of the jungle - Andrew Flintoff is all of those things.  In Second Innings, his searingly honest yet uplifting autobiography, Flintoff reveals unseen, surprising sides to his career and per...

Second Innings

In early 1942 the Germans opened a top-security prisoner-of-war camp. Called Stalag Luft III, it soon contained some of the most inventive escapers ever known. They were led by Squadron Leader Roger Bushell who masterminded an attempt to smugglehundr...

The Real Great Escape

In September 1985, 19-year-old John Lindqvist moves into a dilapidated old building in Stockholm, planning to make his living as a magician. Something strange is going on in the building's basement - and the price of entry is just a little blood. I A...

I Always Find You

The new novel from 'the new master of menace' (Sunday Times)   The worst thing possible has happened. Richard and Juliette Willoughby's son, Ewan, has died suddenly at the age of five.  Starve Acre, their house by the moors, was to be full of life bu...

Starve Acre

It's 1952. More than a decade since humiliation at Dunkirk brought an end to Britain's war and the beginning of an uneasy peace with Hitler. In Africa, the swastika flies from the Sahara to the Indian Ocean. The brutal presence of the SS is visible e...

The Afrika Reich

Gilbert Foliot, Bishop of London, has lived through Henry II’s reign and has witnessed the terrifying civil war between Henry II’s mother, the Empress Matilda, and her cousin, Stephen; a time so traumatic that it becomes known as the Anarchy. The gre...

Anarchy

The author of the Masters of the Sea series is back with a standalone battle book that will blow all others out of the water.1587.  Two nations are locked in bitter conflict. One strives for dominance, the other for survival.After decades of religiou...

Armada

Arms trafficking, offshore accounts and luxury property deals. Super-yachts, private jets and super-car collections. blood diamonds, suspect oil deals, deforestation and murder. This is the world of Global Witness, the award-winning organisation dedi...

Very Bad People

Bloomsbury presents Don Revie: The Biography by Christopher Evans, read by Richard Burnip. The life and times of Don Revie - one of the most complex and controversial men ever to grace the game of football. Whenever the greatest managers the game has...

Don Revie

On a beach in southern England a dog returns to its owner with a human hand in its mouth. The Hand belongs to Henry, the homeless eccentric who has been wandering south west England for the last 30 years. A local policeman and his colleague, in pieci...

So He Takes the Dog

Baghdad, 1917: Captain Jim Stringer has been dispatched to investigate what looks like a case of treason. He arrives to find his cover blown - his contact dead. The Baghdad heat alone threatens the lives of the British soldiers who occupy the city. B...

The Baghdad Railway Club

An erudite, tightly woven and beautifully written account of one of humanity's greatest mysteries - the origins of language. Who was 'the first speaker' and what was their first message? Drawing on evidence from many fields, including archaeology, an...

The Dawn of Language

Sir Hugh Corbett returns in the 18th novel in master historian Paul Doherty's brilliant series.  Summer, 1311, and Sir Hugh Corbett has taken up a life of danger again....  After his recent unveiling of a devious assassin, Sir Hugh Corbett has return...

Dark Serpent

At 10.41am on a Tuesday morning in September, Mark Mason boards the number 1A bus at Land’s End in Cornwall. Forty-six buses and eleven days later he disembarks at John O’Groats in Scotland. Move Along, Please is his account of that gruelling 1100-mi...

Move Along, Please

Pavel Richter, a decommissioned GI, finds himself at odds with a rogue British Army colonel and a Soviet general when an American friend deposits a dead Russian spy in his frozen apartment. The race to take possesion of the dead spy's secert soon beg...

Pavel & I

Two months before Adolf Hitler's rise to power, a young woman is found half naked and near death in the woods outside Berlin. The only clue to her identity is a handbill advertising a lecture by Albert Einstein. Psychiatrist Martin Kirsch little know...

The Einstein Girl

Vienna 1770: Baron Wolfgang von Kempelen unveils an amazing invention, The Mechanical Turk, an unbeatable chess playing automaton. Hailed as the greatest innovation of the century, the chess machine is really a brilliant illusion, secretly operated f...

The Secrets of the Chess Machine

A radical reappraisal of Charles Darwin from the best-selling author of Victoria: A Life Charles Darwin: the man who discovered evolution? The man who killed off God? Or a flawed man of his age, part genius, part ruthless careerist who would not ackn...

Rising a kilometre out of the storm-scoured waters around Scotland’s Isle of Skye is a dark battlement of pinnacles and ridgelines: the Cuillin. Plagued by ferocious weather and built from rock that tears skin and confounds compasses, a crossing of t...

The Black Ridge

"Dr Freeman is a man of great integrity and kindness. His care has helped me through the good times and the hardships of competing in the highest level of sport." (Sir Bradley Wiggins) As team doctor for British Cycling and Team Sky, Dr Richard Freem...

The Line

King Henry II reigns over a vast empire, but he is aging, and his ambitious sons are restless. Henry’s third son, Richard of Aquitaine, is developing a fearsome reputation as a ruthless warrior, and he earns the name Richard Lionheart for his bravery...

Lionheart

Their revolution would ignite a continent.... An epic novel set during one of the most savage and dramatic moments in European history. Greece, 1824 Only the intervention of the Great Powers of France, Russia and Britain can save Greece. In the wild ...

A World on Fire

‘I am fascinated by people turning their daft dreams into a reality. How did they do it and why?’Driven by his own passion for collecting Hunter Davies has packed his notepad and set off in search of Britain’s maddest museums. As he explores these hi...

Behind the Scenes at the Museum of Baked Beans

1072: England is firmly under the heel of its new Norman rulers. The few survivors of the English resistance look to Edgar the Atheling to overthrow William the Conqueror. Years of intrigue and vicious civil war follow and in the face of chaos and de...

Crusade

When English soldier Hal strikes up a conversation with German Lieutenant Wilhelm during the ceasefire in no-man's-land on Christmas Day 1914, he has no idea the impact this chance meeting will have. Wilhelm is in love with an English woman, Sam, and...

The Kissing Gates

Life for Jonathan Leech is on the verge of taking a toe-curling turn for the worse. Or is it? He's about to discover his family's darkest secret. Grandad! But that's not all. Jonathan makes some unusual new friends who are going to teach him a few bloodcurdling things about himself, too... Meet Jonathan and the grisly neighbours of Goolish in the first of a brand new series about the Fang Gang.

The Fang Gang

A fascinating behind-the-scenes look at one of the worlds biggest tech companies. In 2019, a Chinese entity called Tencent overtook Facebook to become the world's fifth-largest company. It was a watershed moment, a wake-up call for those in the West ...

Influence Empire

The first major biography of Peter Higgs, revealing how a short burst of work changed modern physics  On July 4, 2012, the announcement came that one of the longest-running mysteries in physics had been solved: the Higgs boson, the missing piece in u...

Elusive

Much attention has been paid to so-called late style—but what about last style? When does last begin? How early is late? When does the end set in? In this endlessly stimulating investigation, Geoff Dyer sets his own encounter with late middle age aga...

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