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This story is a rare and utterly engaging experience. It tells the extraordinary story of a geisha - summoning up a quarter century from 1929 to th...

The bag wasn't just drifting gently along, it was turning of it's own accord. There was something inside it, squeaking and squealing in terror. Pat...

Twelve-year-old Amir is desperate to win the approval of his father and resolves to win the local kite-fighting tournament, to prove that he has th...

The God Delusion caused a sensation when it was published in 2006. Within weeks it became the most hotly debated topic, with Dawkins himself brande...

Alternate cover editions can be found here . When The Forsyte Saga was shown on television in 1967 it was hugely successful. The nation was gripped...

Northanger Abbey tells the story of a young girl, Catherine Morland who leaves her sheltered, rural home to enter the busy, sophisticated world of ...

Balram, the White Tiger, was born in a backwater village on the River Ganges, the son of a rickshaw-puller. He works in a teashop, crushing coal an...

The Mill on the Floss , based on George Eliot's own experiences of provincial life, is a masterpiece of ambiguity in which moral choice is subjecte...

Pearl and Jodie are sisters. Pearl is the younger one, small, shy and anxious. Jodie is nearly three years older, bold and brash and bad and Pearl ...

Jeremy Clarkson shares his opinions on just about everything in The World According to Clarkson. Jeremy Clarkson has seen rather more of the world ...

I'm Sadie and I'm nearly nine. Mum's a childminder, but she doesn't have to mind me. I can mind myself, easy-peasy. Lucky for Mum, because now she'...

This is doubly difficult as the brain she must think with is reduced to the scattered consciousness of a dog and the reality of the situation poses...

Do you know your desert-island, all-time, top five most memorable split-ups? Rob does. He keeps a list, in fact. But Laura isn't on it - even thoug...

The Stanford family is one of the most respected in America - but behind the facade of fame and glamour lies a hidden web of blackmail, drugs and m...

The tale of identical twin brothers who toil on the family farm in the wild and vibrant land of Wales and experience the oddities, wonders, and tra...

A new novel from Paulo Coelho, author of The Alchemist. A stranger arrives in the small mountain village. He carries with him a backpack containin...

A brilliant new Christmas novel from Sunday Times bestselling author Trisha Ashley Meg is definitely not in the Christmas mood. She’s never gone in...

His most brilliant novel yet' Daily Telegraph Mike Engle has a secret... This is the story of Mike Engle, a working-class boy in the seventies who ...

Frequently berated for breaking his hyper-fussy house rules, as well as for her lack of looks, confidence and friends, Beauty lives in uneasy fear ...

There's always something going on in "Ally's World". Ally's looking forward to a week off school on the geography field trip. But no sooner have sh...

WONDER tells the story of Auggie Pullman: an ordinary boy with an extraordinary face, whose first year at school changed the lives and the perspect...

Full of heart and humor, this is one woman's adventure—with a most unexpected twist There are success stories—and there are true stories. How would...

Hung Together The updated inside story of the 2010 Election, its aftermath and the first two years of the unprecedented Conservative/ Lib Dem coali...

Angie and Ian were childhood sweethearts, Angie adored kids and, as one of eight children himself, Ian was only too happy to have as many as they c...