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Two best friends torn apart by a life-altering secret. They have one summer to set the record straight.

A magical debut novel for readers of Naomi Novik's Uprooted, Erin Morgenstern's The Night Circus, and Neil Gaiman's myth-rich fantasies, The Bear and the Nightingale spins an irresistible spell as

Fly into a fiery and fantastical future with number one best-selling author David Walliams, in an epic adventure of myth and legend, good and evil, and one small boy who must save the world...

From the New York Times bestselling author of Mexican Gothic comes a sweeping romance with a dash of magic.

Presents a young woman who manages to apprentice herself to the retired Scotland Yard master himself, Sherlock Holmes.

In her introduction to The Best American Short Stories 2021, guest editor Jesmyn Ward says that the best fiction offers the reader a "sense of repair." The stories in this year's col

The first entry in Leslie Stewart's diary read: "Dear Diary; This morning I met the man I am going to marry." It was simple, optimistic statement, without the slightest portent of th

When Grace Abernathy's sister is rejected by the Easton family because of her low social class, Grace uses an assumed name to take on a position as nanny for her nephew Christian to see to his

Less a mystery unsolved than a secret well kept ...

Framed in the doorway of Hercule Poirot's bedroom stands an uninvited guest, coated from head to foot in dust. The man stares for a moment, then he sways and falls. Who is he?

The history of human civilization is an astonishing story of migration, innovation, and social development.

A stoner, an Instagram model, a Czech oligarch, and a missing unicorn.

Marlowe takes on an assignment from the Sternwood family: the child-woman Carmen, the sultry Frances, and the ancient General too far past his prime to cope with his daughters' brand of troubl

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Genius of Birds, a radical investigation into the bird way of being, and the recent scientific research that is dramatically shifting our understan

Here is a BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of Daphne du Maurier's classic tale of horror.