Set against the backdrop of a family-owned vineyard in Catalonia, The Catalan House tells the story of three very different women, each with a secret of her own. Divided politics and unrequited love have left a once powerful family...

Thirty-four-year-old writer, Oliver, becomes the guardian of his best friend’s 15-year-old daughter, Jude, after the friend’s sudden death. In the seven years that follow, Jude struggles with being alone in the world, albeit with a wonderful guardian whom she’s...

If life in the Intelligence Service has taught John Bachelor anything, it’s to keep his head down. Especially now, when he’s living rent-free in a dead spook’s flat. So he’s not delighted to be woken at dawn by a...

At a glittering after-party on the night of the Academy Awards, author Mirren McLean celebrates her win with her childhood friends Davie Johnston and Zander Leith by her side. Three kids from a tough street in Glasgow, the dazzling...

In this inspiring travelogue, celebrated traveler and photographer Jessica Nabongo—the first Black woman on record to visit all 195 countries in the world—shares her journey around the globe with fascinating stories of adventure, culture, travel musts, and human connections. ...

Spring 1927. The birth of popular music. John Coughlin is a song-catcher from New York who has been sent to Appalachia to source and record the local hill-country musicians. His assignment leads him to small-town Tennessee where he oversees...

What secrets were covered up at the court of Henry VIII …? Whitehall Palace, England, 1539 When Catherine Howard arrives at the court of King Henry VIII to be a maid of honour in the household of the new...

Seventeen-year-old Aisha hasn’t seen her sister June for two years. And now that a calamity is about to end the world in nine months’ time, she and her mother decide that it’s time to track her down and mend...

A bomb at the Vatican. A mutilated corpse at the Colosseum. A sniper’s bullet – and that’s just the beginning. When Italian detective and disgraced undercover cop Luca Meroni discovers a mutilated corpse at the Colosseum, he is drawn...

Welcome aboard The Great Trans-Siberian Express. It is the end of the 19th Century and the world is awash with marvels. But there is nothing so marvellous as the Wastelands: a terrain of terrible miracles that lies between Beijing...