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Amazon. com’s 2015 best book of the year new york times bestseller barack obama’s book of the year a finalist for the 2015 national book award shortlisted for the 2015 national book critics circle award every story has two sides. every relationship has two perspectives. and sometimes, it turns out, the key to a great marriage is not its truths but its secrets. at age twenty-two, lotto and mathilde are tall, glamorous, madly in love and destined for greatness. a decade later, their marriage is still the envy of their friends, but behind closed doors things are even more complicated and remarkable than they have seemed.

From the author of to kill a kingdom comes the first in a spectacular fantasy duology, in a world thriving with black magic.

The acclaimed international bestseller set around the tudor court during the years when henry viii traded his mistress mary boleyn for courtship of her sister anne – and the revolutionary sequence of events that followed. when henry viii tires of pretty young mary boleyn, her powerful family instructs her to promote her sister, anne, as a replacement. but anne boleyn, newly returned from the french court, intelligent and spirited, doesn’t agree to be henry’s mistress – only his wife. pitting the king’s desperation for an heir against his powerful advisors – wolsey, cromwell and dukes of norfolk and suffolk – what anne brings about will change the course of a country’s history. told with all of philippa gregory’s characteristic perceptiveness, backed by meticulous historical research and superb storytelling skills, the other boleyn girl brings a legendary court, its politics, personalities and scheming vividly to life.

By the author of the thousand autumns of jacob de zoet, david mitchell’s bestselling and booker prize-shortlisted novel, one of richard & judy’s 100 books of the decade, cloud atlas has now been adapted for film. the major motion picture, directed by the wachowskis and tom tykwer, stars tom hanks, halle berry, susan sarandon, jim sturgess, ben whishaw, jim broadbent and hugh grant. the novel features six characters in interlocking stories, each interrupting the one before it: a reluctant voyager crossing the pacific in 1850; a disinherited composer blagging a precarious livelihood in between-the-wars belgium; a high-minded journalist in governor reagan’s california; a vanity publisher fleeing his gangland creditors; a genetically modified dinery server on death-row; and zachry, a young pacific islander witnessing the nightfall of science and civilisation. the narrators of cloud atlas hear each other’s echoes down the corridor of history, and their destinies are changes in ways great and small. mitchell’s other novels are ghostwritten, black swan green and number9dream, all published by sceptre. www. sceptrebooks. com facebook: sceptre books twitter: sceptrebooks

Internationally bestselling author philippa gregory brings the tumult and intrigue of the wars of the roses to vivid life through the women of the house of lancaster and the house of york, beginning with the story of elizabeth woodville, the white queen. a woman who won the love of a king and ascended to royalty by virtue of her beauty, elizabeth fought tenaciously for the success of her family — her daughter who would one day unite the warring dynasties, and her two sons whose eventual fate has confounded historians for centuries: the princes in the tower. an active player in the power struggles that surrounded her, she made hard and courageous choices, always trying to protect those whom she loved. informed by impeccable research and framed by her inimitable storytelling skills, philippa gregory gives an unforgettable voice to an extraordinary woman at the heart of a devastating conflict.

In eighteenth-century sussex, a young girl seeks revenge for the death of her father – an intoxicating historical novel from the acclaimed author of in love and war

*winner of the 2014 nobel peace prize* in 2009 malala yousafzai began writing a blog on bbc urdu about life in the swat valley as the taliban gained control, at times banning girls from attending school. when her identity was discovered, malala began to appear in both pakistani and international media, advocating the freedom to pursue education for all. in october 2012, gunmen boarded malala’s school bus and shot her in the face, a bullet passing through her head and into her shoulder. remarkably, malala survived the shooting. at a very young age, malala yousafzai has become a worldwide symbol of courage and hope. her shooting has sparked a wave of solidarity across pakistan, not to mention globally, for the right to education, freedom from terror and female emancipation.