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n Paris, a physicist dies after performing a laboratory experiment for a beautiful visitor.

Approximately sixty years after the event, Dave Sharp discovered that he had been given away at the age of one month.

A satirical novel exploring the absurdities and cruelties of society in post-Tiananmen China.

Elizabeth I has acceded to the throne of England, a position she has waited and schemed for all her life.

Set in Whitechapel in 1888. Fiona Finnegan is the spirited, ambitious daughter of an Irish dock worker.

The Hunter family lives at 26 Waifer Avenue in Neasden. Twin daughters Georgia and Bessi live in the loft that they call 26A.

Samantha is a high-powered lawyer in London. She works all hours, has no home life, and cares only about getting a partnership. She thrives on the pressure and adrenalin. Until one day ...

Mark Chamberlain is a man who has everything: a job he loves; the criminal record to prove it; a cop on his trail and a houseful of stolen goods.

Robert FitzRoy is given the captaincy of HMS Beagle, surveying the wilds of Tierra del Fuego. He is aged twenty three, and suffers from hereditary manic depression.

This vet shares a collection of anecdotes as he travels from the Yorkshire dales, the Scottish highlands, the fjords of Norway and to the wilds of Southland.

Anna Walsh returns to her family in Dublin to recuperate from a debilitating and disfiguring accident.

What began as a universal belief system has become a ritualistic institution headed by ultraconservative literalists.

The man known as Oliver Stone has no official past. He spends most days as a protester camped opposite the White House.

Set between the 1930s and the present, Maggie O'Farrell's novel is the story of Esme, a woman edited out of her family's history, and of the secrets that come to light when, 60 years

John Berendt arrived in February 1996 for a prolonged spell in the city that had captivated him on his first visit.