Biographical fiction

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  • Shrines of gaiety

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    1926, and in a country still recovering from the Great War, London has become the focus for a delirious new nightlife. In the clubs of Soho, peers of the realm rub shoulders with starlets, foreign dignitaries with gangsters, and girls sell dances for a shilling a time. The notorious queen of this glittering world is Nellie Coker, ruthless but also ambitious to advance her six children, including the enigmatic eldest, Niven whose character has been forged in the crucible of the Somme. But success breeds enemies, and Nellie’s empire faces threats from without and within. For beneath the dazzle of Soho’s gaiety, there is a dark underbelly, a world in which it is all too easy to become lost.

  • Rodham

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    What if Hillary Rodham had turned down Bill Clinton’s proposal of marriage? In ‘American Wife’, Curtis Sittenfeld painted a picture of an ordinary American girl who found herself married to a President – basing it on the life of Laura Bush. In this new novel, she takes another ordinary American girl, Hillary Rodham, and explores how her life might have turned out if she had stayed an independent woman.

  • The Mirror & the Light

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    Soon to be a major TV series

    The Sunday Times bestseller

    Shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction

    Longlisted for the Booker Prize

    ‘It is a book not read, but lived’ Telegraph

    ‘Her Cromwell novels are, for my money, the greatest English novels of this century’ Observer

  • Daisy Jones and The Six: The most rock n roll novel of 2019

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    Daisy Jones & the Six rose from the 1970s LA music scene to become one of the biggest bands in the world. They sold out arenas from coast to coast. Their music defined an era and every girl in America idolised Daisy. But, in 1979, on the night of the final concert of their tour, they split. Nobody ever knew why. Until now. This is the whole story, right from the beginning: the sun-bleached streets, the grimy bars on the Sunset Strip, knowing Daisy’s moment was coming. Relive the euphoria of success and experience the terror that nothing will ever be as good again.

  • Bring Up the Bodies

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    Now a major TV series

    Winner of the Man Booker Prize

    The second book in Hilary Mantel’s award-winning Wolf Hall trilogy, with a stunning new cover design to celebrate the publication of the much anticipated The Mirror and the Light

  • It ShouldnT Happen To A Vet

    £11.99

    A Macmillan Collector’s Library edition of the second volume of James Herriot’s hilarious memoirs about life as a country vet.

  • Burning Bright

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    ‘A visual delight’ The Times

    ‘A splendidly vital recreation of Georgian London’ Sunday Times

  • The Devil Wears Prada

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    The iconic bestseller that inspired 2 films

  • My Struggle Book 1 Death In The Family

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    Karl Ove Knausgaard writes with painful honesty about his childhood and teenage years, his infatuation with rock music, his relationship with his loving yet almost invisible mother and his distant and unpredictable father, and his bewilderment and grief on his father’s death.

  • Alone In Berlin

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    Berlin, 1940, and the city is filled with fear. At the house on 55 Jablonski Strasse, its various occupants try to live under Nazi rule in their different ways: the nervous Frau Rosenthal, the bullying Hitler loyalists the Persickes, the retired judge Fromm, and the unassuming working-class couple Otto and Anna Quangel.

  • American Wife

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    On one of the most important days of her husband’s presidency, Alice Blackwell considers the strange and unlikely path that has led them to the White House, and faces contradictions years in the making. Weaving race, class, wealth and fate into a tapestry, this novel lays bare the pleasures and pain of intimacy and love.