Summer Reads

The result of three decades of exhaustive research, Payne’s monumental biography of the seminal civil rights leader is packed with fresh insight gleaned from countless interviews and testimony with figures who knew Malcolm X intimately. Winner of the...

(Available after 3-20 days)Leila has made it most of the way through Armstead Academy without having a crush on anyone, which is something of a relief. As an Iranian American, she's different enough; if word got out that she liked girls, life would be...

In the dark beside me, she smelled of sweat and sunshine and vanilla and on that thin-mooned night I could see little more than her silhouette, but even in the dark, I could see her eyes - fierce emeralds. And not just beautiful, but hot too. BEFORE...

One of Betches' 7 Books by Black Authors You Need to Read This Summer One of Elite Daily's Books Featuring Interracial Relationships You Should Read In 2020One of Marie Claire's 2020 Books You Should Add to Your Reading List When a Nigerian woman falls...

(Available after 31 September 2021)'Thubron on top form. Richly detailed, immaculately written and full of insights and encounters that bring a complex corner of the world to life'  -- Michael PalinA dramatic and ambitious new journey for our greatest...

A Good Morning America Book Club Pick and New York Times Bestseller!From debut author Asha Lemmie, "a lovely, heartrending story about love and loss, prejudice and pain, and the sometimes dangerous, always durable ties that link a family together."...

An attempt on an ageing billionaire's life unlocks a lifetime of dark secrets in the sixteenth electrifying case for Paris' maverick Inspector Gamache. On their first night in Paris, the Gamaches gather for a family dinner with Armand's godfather,...

With her uncanny ability to provoke a profound emotional reaction in her readers, Picoult delivers another slice of brilliantly affecting storytelling with this story of a plane crash survivor at a crossroads in their life. Jodi Picoult's stunning...

Illuminating and absorbing, Black Spartacus is a definitive new biography of Toussaint Louverture – a revolutionary slave hero, military mastermind and the first leader of the independent Black state of Haiti. Winner of the Wolfson History...

This stunningly illustrated and deeply researched volume unravels the multi-layered story of Ravenna – once the capital of the Western Roman Empire and the cultural and political hub of early medieval Europe. Shortlisted for the Wolfson History...

McCarthy’s ground-breaking and at times shocking volume charts the history of British working mothers, and the evolution of public attitudes towards female breadwinners in the last hundred years. Shortlisted for the Wolfson History Prize 2021 A...

From the destruction of the Great Library of Alexandria to the Windrush papers, Burning the Books charts the extraordinary history of hostility towards knowledge, and of those who have fought to preserve it.  Shortlisted for the Wolfson History...

Based on a true story, A Room Made of Leavesbuilds an evocative narrative of oppression and desire amidst the harsh realities of an Australian penal colony.   It is 1788. When twenty-one-year-old Elizabeth marries the arrogant and hot-headed soldier...

Relating the extraordinary story of a Japanese woman who defied social conventions to forge her own path in life, Stranger in the Shogun’s City is also a fascinating window on the birth of Tokyo as a modern metropolis. Shortlisted for the Baillie...

In this riveting biography, veteran journalist Zachary D. Carter unearths the lost legacy of one of history's greatest minds. John Maynard Keynes's vibrant, deeply human vision of democracy, art, and the good life has been obscured by technical debates,...

Drawing on a wealth of fresh material, Clark’s revisionist biography of the iconic poet is perceptive life-writing at its finest and refuses to paint Plath as a figure preordained for a tragic end.    The first biography of this great and tragic poet...

FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDIn 1960, Harvard’s sister college, Radcliffe, announced the founding of an Institute for Independent Study, a “messy experiment” in women’s education that offered paid fellowships to those with a PhD or...

THE TOP TEN SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Winner of the RNA Romantic Comedy Novel of the Year award'A life-affirming story full of joy and hope' CATHY BRAMLEY'A sun-filled, fun-filled wonderful escapist adventure'MILLY JOHNSONWhen does time out become the time...

The delightful Sunday Times bestselling novel from Trisha Ashley'One of the best writers around!' -- Katie Fforde'Full of down-to-earth humour.' -- Sophie KinsellaAll Marnie wants is somewhere to call home.Mourning lost years spent in a marriage that has...

Only love can warm the coldest of nights... It's autumn in Stratford-Upon-Avon and twenty-something Kelsey Anderson has moved from her Scottish home to live permanently in the beautiful town. Her Shakespearean tour guide days behind her, she's now...