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***William Boyd's new novel, The Romantic, is available to pre-order now***'One of the comic masterpieces' Daily Telegraph ______________________________________Henderson Dores is an Englishman in New...

Fascination is master storyteller William Boyd's third volume of short storiesDescribed as "the finest storyteller of his generation", and following his acclaimed collections On the Yankee Station and...

***William Boyd's new novel, The Romantic, is available to pre-order now***'As ambitious as it is remarkable. Balances on seesaws of innocence and violence, sanity and lunacy, hilarity and horror' The...

A philandering art dealer tries to give up casual love affairs - seeking only passionate kisses as a substitute. A man recounts his personal history through the things he has stolen from others throughout...

“William Boyd seems singularly blessed with both an innate love of storytelling and the talent to render those stories in swift, confident prose.” —The New York Times From William Boyd, award-winning...

In his most exhilarating novel yet, William Boyd transports you to the vibrant streets of sixties London, as an accidental spy is drawn into the shadows of espionage and obsession . . .‘William Boyd once...

Los Angeles, 1936. »Bitte setzen Sie sich mit mir in Verbindung. Es gibt so viel zu erzählen«, steht in dem Brief, den die ehrgeizige junge Architektin Kay eines Tages auf ihrer Türschwelle findet. Geschrieben...

'Marvellously paced and ingeniously plotted. A real page-turner' Observer_________________________One winter morning, Lorimer Black - young, good-looking, but with a somewhat troubled expression - goes...

***William Boyd's new novel, The Romantic, is available to pre-order now***'An elating read' Sunday TimesA producer. A novelist. An actress.It is summer in 1968, the year of the assassinations of Martin...

Ein Mann. Eine Zufallsbekanntschaft. Ein Aktenordner. Ein Toter. Von einer Sekunde auf die andere muss Adam Kindred, angesehener Klimatologe, in London untertauchen. Er ist der Hauptverdächtige in einem...

Es ist das Jahr 1914, in Deutsch- und Britisch-Ostafrika gehen Deutsche und Engländer in dieselben Bars. Dann bricht der Erste Weltkrieg aus, hält Einzug in den Alltag, und aus Freunden werden Feinde....

Bethany Mellmoth hat sich ein großes Ziel gesetzt. Sie will Schriftstellerin werden. Oder vielleicht doch Fotografin? Oder Schauspielerin? So schnell sie einen Plan fasst, so schnell ist er wieder passé....

Der schüchterne britische Kunsthistoriker Henderson Dores reist nach New York. Alles, was er will, ist dazugehören, Teil der amerikanischen Gesellschaft werden, denn amerikanisch sein, so denkt er, heißt,...

Logan Gonzago Mountstuart, 1906 in Uruguay geboren, ist Schriftsteller, Kunsthändler, Spion. Und vieles mehr. Eine Lebemann. Ein Mann mit vielen Talenten und ebenso vielen Schwächen: Mit Anfang zwanzig...

Mit sechzehn Jahren erfährt Cashel Greville, dass er nicht ist, wer er glaubte zu sein. 1799 im irischen Cork geboren, hätte er seine Eltern früh bei einem Schiffsunglück verloren, hat seine Tante Elspeth...

En cette fin d'été 1913, le jeune comédien anglais Lysander Rief est à Vienne pour tenter de résoudre, grâce à cette nouvelle science des âmes qu'est la psychanalyse, un problème d'ordre intime. Dans...

Au lendemain de la Première Guerre mondiale, la très jeune Amory Clay se voit offrir par son oncle Greville un appareil photo et quelques conseils rudimentaires pour s'en servir. Elle ignore alors que...

Dans la station balnéaire de Brighton, indifférents au tumulte du monde en cet été 1968, trois personnagessont réunis pour les besoins d’un film dans l’esprit des « Swingin’ Sixties ». Tous ont une double...

1894. Accordeur surdoué à l'oreille absolue, le jeune Brodie Moncur, employé d'un vénérable fabricant de pianos à Édimbourg, accepte avec joie un poste important dans la filiale parisienne, fuyant ainsi...

Fuyant l’Irlande, où il est né en 1799, Cashel Greville Ross s’enrôle dans l’armée. Ainsi débute un parcours tumultueux, semé d’épisodes glorieux et de revers de fortune, dans les pas de l’Histoire. Blessé...

1969. Espion chevronné, membre surdoué des services secrets de Sa Majesté, James Bond célèbre ses quarante-cinq ans avec une mission peu ordinaire : mettre un terme à la guerre civile qui déchire le Zanzarim,...

Un don juan patenté s'impose la chasteté mais compense en collectionnant les baisers volés ; un kleptomane retrace son parcours de vie à travers les objets qu'il a dérobés ; un couple séparé se retrouve...

Gabriel Dax' Nächte sind kurz. Seit seiner Kindheit leidet er unter Albträumen: Erinnerungen an jene verhängnisvolle Nacht, in der seine Mutter und sein Elternhaus einem verheerenden Brand zum Opfer fielen....

Soldier. Farmer. Felon. Writer. Father. Lover.One man, many lives.Born in 1799, Cashel Greville Ross experiences myriad lives: joyous and devastating, years of luck and unexpected loss. Moving from County...

This new collection of stories is William Boyd's second, appearing some fourteen years after his first, On the Yankee Station. Once again the stories range widely across the time and space of the twentieth...

*The Sunday Times Bestseller* It is 1969 and James Bond is about to go solo, recklessly motivated by revenge. A seasoned veteran of the service, 007 is sent to single-handedly stop a civil war in the...

DISCOVER THE BOOKER PRIZE LONGLISTED NOVEL ABOUT ONE HEART'S LOVES AND LOSSES FROM ICONIC STORYTELLER WILLIAM BOYDEvery life is both ordinary and extraordinary but Logan Mountstuart's contains more than...

***William Boyd's new novel, The Romantic, is available to pre-order now***WINNER OF THE SUNDAY EXPRESS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD'Achingly memorable' The Times ________________________________A quest for...

***William Boyd's new novel, The Romantic, is available to pre-order now***'Brilliant. A Citizen Kane of a novel' Daily Telegraph__________________________________Meet John James Todd:Scotsman, auteur,...

***William Boyd's new novel, The Romantic, is available to pre-order now***WINNER OF THE JAMES TAIT BLACK MEMORIAL PRIZE 'A brilliant storyteller . . . a book which stretches, tantalizes and delights'...

"'There is a plot, Harry Potter. A plot to make most terrible things happen at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry this year.'" Harry Potter's summer has included the worst birthday ever, doomy...

The long-awaited explosive climax to the first arc of the Number One New York Times bestselling Stormlight Archive. Dalinar Kholin challenged the evil god Odium to a contest of champions with the future...

Readers love The Ingredients for Happiness! ‘A gorgeous summer read’ ‘Uplifting, funny, romantic and charming’...

A spellbinding epic tale of ambition, anarchy and absolute power set against the sprawling medieval canvas of twelfth-century England, The Pillars of the Earth is Ken Follett's classic historical masterpiece.A...

The Thought Police, Doublethink, Newspeak, Big Brother – 1984 itself: these terms and concepts have moved from the world of fiction into our everyday lives. They are central to our thinking about freedom...

One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World' HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. Winston Smith rewrites history. It’s his...

"'Welcome to the Knight Bus, emergency transport for the stranded witch or wizard. Just stick out your wand hand, step on board and we can take you anywhere you want to go.'"When the Knight Bus crashes...

‘Addictive. A first-class page-turner.’ Lisa Hall, author of Between You and Me Can the past ever be forgotten? As soon as nurse Maura Lyle sets foot inside the foreboding Essen Grange,...

WINNER OF THE HUGO AWARD FOR BEST ALL-TIME SERIES The Foundation series is Isaac Asimov’s iconic masterpiece. Unfolding against the backdrop of a crumbling Galactic Empire,...

THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP BESTSELLER#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERSHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZELONGLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE'An utterly mesmerising novel..I absolutely loved this book' Bernardine Evaristo,...

The hauntingly prophetic classic novel. Over 1 million copies sold in the UK. Guy Montag is a fireman. His job is to burn books, which are forbidden, being...

Is it ever too late to leave the friend zone? Friends-to-lovers TikTok sensation, The Cheat Sheet, is the rom-com that has readers laughing and rooting for these lovable best friends from the first page!...

The inspiration for the new Netflix series, Lupin, starring Omar Sy. Leblanc's creation, Gentleman thief Arsène Lupin, is everything you would expect from a French aristocrat—witty, charming, brilliant,...

The most famous by far of all twentieth-century political allegories, Animal Farm is the account of a group of barnyard animals who revolt against their vicious human master, only to submit to a tyranny...

Isolated from society in a tenement basement in St. Petersburg, a malicious former civil servant vents his resentments. In the rambling notes that follow, we are exposed to the inner turmoil of the Underground...

Fame. Fashion. Friendship. Hollie can't catch a break. She's broke, she's back living with her family, and her career prospects are precisely zero. So when the chance arises for her and her best friend...

Jonathan Harker, a young London solicitor travels to Transylvania to help a rich nobleman, Count Dracula, purchase an estate in England. Dracula is planning to immigrate to England, and wants Harker to...

The story of the orphan Oliver, who runs away from the workhouse only to be taken in by a den of thieves, shocked readers when it was first published. Dickens's tale of childhood innocence beset by evil...

This ebook compiles Jule Verne's complete collection, including "Twenty-Thousand Leagues Under the Sea", "Journey to the Interior of the Earth", "The Mysterious Island", "Around the World in Eighty Days",...

In the vast expanse of the treacherous ocean, a legendary tale unfolds, gripping the hearts of readers for generations to come. Immerse yourself in the thrilling world of "Moby Dick," a literary masterpiece...

As the interminable case of Jarndyce and Jarndyce grinds its way through the Court of Chancery, it draws together a disparate group of people: Ada and Richard Clare, whose inheritance is gradually being...

"Turning the envelope over, his hand trembling, Harry saw a purple wax seal bearing a coat of arms; a lion, an eagle, a badger and a snake surrounding a large letter 'H'."Harry Potter has never even heard...

"One of the strangest and most wonderful books in the world." —D. H. Lawrence "‘Moby-Dick’ is the book which I put down with the unqualified thought, 'I wish I had written that'…" —William Faulkner "What...

The series that inspired the Netflix show. This collection contains 38 Arsène Lupin stories (the biggest and greatest Arsène Lupin collection in the eBook world), including: - Arsène Lupin, Gentleman...

Mrs. Dalloway chronicles a June day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway–a day that is taken up with running minor errands in preparation for a party and that is punctuated, toward the end, by the suicide...

Mary Shelley began writing Frankenstein when she was only eighteen. At once a Gothic thriller, a passionate romance, and a cautionary tale about the dangers of science, Frankenstein tells the story of...

The Brothers Karamasov is a murder mystery, a courtroom drama, and an exploration of erotic rivalry in a series of triangular love affairs involving the “wicked and sentimental” Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov...

What The Lord of the Rings is to fantasy, Dune is to science fiction. Presenting one of the most influential works of all time, which has inspired countless other stories for more than half a century,...

An enchanting collection containing the first three novels in New York Times bestselling author Julia Quinn’s beloved Bridgerton series set in Regency England—The Duke and I, The Viscount Who Loved Me,...

Pre-order Beth's epic new novel, SWEPT AWAY, now! 'Beth O'Leary is that rare, one-in-a-million talent who can make you laugh, swoon, cry and ache all in the same book' EMILY HENRYTiffy and Leon share...