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Now a major tv series winner of the man booker prize shortlisted for the the orange prize shortlisted for the costa novel award `dizzyingly, dazzlingly good’ daily mail ‘our most brilliant english writer’ guardian england, the 1520s. henry viii is on the throne, but has no heir. cardinal wolsey is his chief advisor, charged with securing the divorce the pope refuses to grant. into this atmosphere of distrust and need comes thomas cromwell, first as wolsey’s clerk, and later his successor. cromwell is a wholly original man: the son of a brutal blacksmith, a political genius, a briber, a charmer, a bully, a man with a delicate and deadly expertise in manipulating people and events. ruthless in pursuit of his own interests, he is as ambitious in his wider politics as he is for himself. his reforming agenda is carried out in the grip of a self-interested parliament and a king who fluctuates between romantic passions and murderous rages. from one of our finest living writers, wolf hall is that very rare thing: a truly great english novel, one that explores the intersection of individual psychology and wider politics. with a vast array of characters, and richly overflowing with incident, it peels back history to show us tudor england as a half-made society, moulding itself with great passion and suffering and courage.

They say i must be put to death for what happened to madame, and they want me to confess. but how can i confess what i don’t believe i’ve done? 1826, and all of london is in a frenzy. crowds gather at the gates of the old bailey to watch as frannie langton, maid to mr and mrs benham, goes on trial for their murder. the testimonies against her are damning – slave, whore, seductress. and they may be the truth. but they are not the whole truth. for the first time frannie must tell her story. it begins with a girl learning to read on a plantation in jamaica, and it ends in a grand house in london, where a beautiful woman waits to be freed. but through her fevered confessions, one burning question haunts frannie langton- could she have murdered the only person she ever loved?

In a future north america, where the rulers of panem maintain control through a televised survival competition pitting young people against one another, sixteen-year-old katniss’s skills are put to the test when she voluntarily takes her younger sister’s place. |

The brand new edge-of-your-seat thriller from the author of the smash hit bestseller the woman in the window. ‘elegant, absorbing, full of hitchcockian menace’ lucy foley ‘i was mesmerized’ lisa jewell ‘brilliantly plotted’ liz nugent ‘fans of detective fiction will be thrilled!’ shari lapena “i’ll be dead in three months. come tell my story.” this is the chilling invitation from sebastian trapp, renowned mystery novelist, to his long-time correspondent nicky hunter, an expert in detective fiction. welcomed into his lavish san francisco mansion, nicky begins to unravel trapp’s life story under the watchful eyes of his enigmatic wife and plainspoken daughter. but sebastian trapp is a mystery himself. and maybe – probably – a murderer. two decades ago, his first wife and son vanished, the case never solved. is the master of mystery playing a deadly game? if so, who will be the loser? and when a body surfaces in the family’s garden, they all realize the past isn’t buried – it’s waiting. what readers are saying about end of story ‘had me gripped all the way through to the jaw dropping finale!’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘lots of plot twists to keep you on the edge of your seat’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘a great rollercoaster ride of a book’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘i changed my mind about the way i thought the plot would progress so many times, and was still surprised!’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘this is a writer who loves words, loves mysteries, and loves weaving the two together’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘one of those books that once finished i want to read from start to finish all over again’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘the whole novel is packed full of atmosphere’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘an extremely twisted murder mystery’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

After the sinking of a crago ship, a solitary lifeboat remains bobbing on the wild blue pacific. the only survivors from the wreck are a sixteen-year-old boy named pi, a hyena, a wounded zebra, and orangutan-and a 450-pound royal bengel tiger.

A bewitching tale of heartbreak and hope set in 1920s alaska, eowyn ivey’s the snow child was a top ten bestseller in hardback and paperback, and went on to be a finalist for the pulitzer prize. alaska, the 1920s. jack and mabel have staked everything on a fresh start in a remote homestead, but the wilderness is a stark place, and mabel is haunted by the baby she lost many years before. when a little girl appears mysteriously on their land, each is filled with wonder, but also foreboding: is she what she seems, and can they find room in their hearts for her? written with the clarity and vividness of the russian fairy tale from which it takes its inspiration, the snow child is an instant classic.