Abilio Estévez

Abir Mukherjee is the bestselling author of the award-winning Wyndham &amp; Banerjee series of crime novels set in 1920s India and the British Book Awards Crime Thriller of the Year 2025 Hunted. His books have been translated into sixteen languages and won various awards including the CWA Dagger for best Historical Novel, the Prix du Polar Européen, and the Wilbur Smith Award for Adventure Writing. 
 
 
He also co-hosts the popular Red Hot Chilli Writers podcast which takes a wry look at the world of books, writing, and the creative arts, tackling everything from bestsellers to pop culture. Abir grew up in Scotland and now lives in Surrey with his wife and two sons. 
 
 
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Abraham L. Newman is a professor at the School of Foreign Service and Government Department at Georgetown University. He is a 2022-2023 Berlin Prize winner and his work has been published in leading outlets like The New York Times, The Financial Times, The Washington Post, Nature, Science, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, Harvard Business Review, and Politico.

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Ada Moncrieff is the author of Murder Most Festive, Murder at the Theatre Royale and Murder at Maybridge Castle. She lives and works in London.

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Adam Aleksic is a linguist and content creator posting educational videos as the “Etymology Nerd” to an audience of over two million. As a linguistics student at Harvard College, he founded and served as president of the Harvard Undergraduate Linguistics Society. He’s discussed online language on NPR, repeatedly contributed to The Washington Post, and his work has been mentioned in The New York Times, The Economist, and The Guardian. He’s lectured on language and social media at Stanford, Yale, Georgetown, and other top universities, including a TEDx talk at the University of Pennsylvania. Adam is based in New York City, where he spends a lot of time scrolling TikTok for “research.”

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Adam Alter is an Associate Professor at New York University's Stern School of Business, and holds an affiliated appointment within the Psychology Department. He is the author of the New York Times bestseller Drunk Tank Pink: And Other Unexpected Forces That Shape How We Think, Feel and Behave and has written for The New York Times, New Yorker, Atlantic, Wired, Popular Science and numerous other publications.

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Professor Adam Balen is lead clinician at one of the UK's largest and most successful IVF units at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust. In recognition of his research on fertility and related conditions, he holds a DSc (the highest academic degree in medicine) from the University of Leeds. Adam is internationally renowned, holding roles with the World Health Organisation (WHO), the International Federation of Gyneacology and Obstetrics (FIGO) and the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gyneacologists (RCOG). He runs both NHS and private fertility clinics so he understands the issues that arise from both sides and he works closely with fertility patient support organisations across the UK. Adam regularly features in the media on all aspects of reproductive health and lectures widely throughout the world.

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Adam Brookes grew up in the UK and was a journalist with BBC News for many years. As a foreign correspondent he was based in Indonesia, China and the United States. Along the way he reported from many other countries, including Iraq, Afghanistan and North Korea. He lives in Washington DC.

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Adam Christopher is the New York Times bestselling author of Star Wars: Shadow of the Sith and Stranger Things: Darkness on the Edge of Town. He has also written official tie-in novels for the hit CBS television show Elementary and the award-winning Dishonored video game franchise. Co-creator of the twenty-first-century incarnation of Archie Comics superhero The Shield, Adam has also written for the universes of Doctor Who and World of Warcraft, and is a contributor to the internationally bestselling Star Wars: From a Certain Point of View anniversary anthology series and the all-ages Star Wars Adventures comic. Adam’s original novels include Made to Kill and The Burning Dark, among many others, and his debut novel Empire State was both a SciFi Now and Financial Times book of the year.

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Adam Foulds's most recent books are In the Wolf’s Mouth, The Quickening Maze, which was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and won the Encore Award and the European Union Prize for Literature, and The Broken Word, which won the Costa Poetry Award and the Somerset Maugham Award. He has recently been awarded the E.M. Forster Award by the American Academy of Arts and Letters and named as one of Granta’s ‘Best of Young British Novelists’.

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Dr Adam Fox is a highly qualified and respected allergy specialist and consultant paediatric allergist and clinical lead for Allergy at Guy's &amp; St Thomas' Hospitals. The Times recently named him as one of Britain's top 100 children’s doctors. 
 
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Adam Galinsky is currently the Morris and Alice Kaplan Professor of Ethics and Decision in Management at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. He received his PhD from Princeton University in Social Psychology and his B.A. from Harvard University.

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Adam Grant is an organizational psychologist at Wharton, where he has been the top-rated professor for seven straight years. His books have sold millions of copies, his TED talks have been viewed more than 30 million times, and he hosts the hit podcast Re:Thinking. His pioneering research on motivation and meaning has enabled people to reach their aspirations and exceed others' expectations. His viral piece on languishing was the most-read New York Times article of 2021 and the most-saved article across platforms. He has been recognized as one of the world's ten most influential management thinkers and Fortune's 40 Under 40, and has received distinguished scientific achievement awards from the American Psychological Association and the National Science Foundation. Grant received his B.A. from Harvard University and his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan, and he is a former Junior Olympic springboard diver. He lives in Philadelphia with his wife and their three children.

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Adam and Charlotte met in Zanzibar while working with Voluntary Services Overseas. Upon their return to the UK, Charlotte completed an MA at Oxford Brookes and started her career in publishing. Adam in the meantime became writer-in-residence at the Roald Dahl Museum and Story Centre before co-founding Storytelling Schools, an international organisation dedicated to training teachers in oracy, literacy and creativity. Adam and Charlotte's first book together was the best-selling and award-winning Spaghetti with the Yeti. Since then, Adam and Charlotte have continued to follow their passion for creating engaging books that inspire interaction and creativity in young readers.

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ADAM HAMDY is a bestselling author and screenwriter. His most recent novel, The Other Side of Night, was an NPR best book of 2022 and a New York Times best thriller of the year, and has been described as ingenious and deeply moving. He is the author of the Scott Pearce series of modern spy thrillers, Black 13, Red Wolves and White Fire, and the Pendulum trilogy. Keep up to date with his latest books and news at www.adamhamdy.com.

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Adam Haslett is the author of the story collection You Are Not a Stranger Here and the novels Imagine Me Gone and Union Atlantic. He has twice been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award and his books have been translated into over thirty languages. His journalism on culture and politics has appeared in The Financial Times, Esquire, The New Yorker, The Guardian, Der Spiegel, The Nation, and The Atlantic, among others. He lives in New York City.

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June Francis

Torn between duty to her family and a last chance at love... 
 
Busy bringing up her motherless brothers and sisters, romance is the last thing on Lily Thorpe’s mind. But when the handsome preacher Matt Gibson asks Lily to return with him to Australia as his wife, she finds it very hard to say no. 
 
But with rumours of war on the horizon, will she have to choose between her head and her heart? 
 
A story of love and loyalty set against the backdrop of wartime Liverpool.

Lily's War

Bradley Somer

Even a goldfish can dream of adventure… 
 
From his enviable view from a balcony on the 27th floor of an apartment block, Ian the Goldfish has frequent – if fleeting – desires for a more exciting life. Until one day, a series of unfortunate events give him an opportunity to escape… 
 
Our story begins, however, with the human inhabitants of Ian’s building. There is the handsome student, his girlfriend, and his mistress; an agoraphobic sex worker, the invisible caretaker; the pregnant woman on bed rest; and the home-schooled boy, Herman, who thinks he can travel through time. 
 
And as Ian tumbles perilously downwards, he will witness all their lives, loves, triumphs and disasters… 
 
A truly original, philosophically joyful and charming novel with the unlikeliest of heroes. This is Tales of the City as seen by a goldfish.

Fishbowl

Joanna Barnard

'Can there be a more unreliable narrator than a teenage girl?' 
 
Fiona Palmer is (un)happily married when a chance meeting with her former teacher plunges her headlong into an affair. 
 
Intercut with the realities of their adult relationship, Fiona remembers first meeting the enigmatic Henry Morgan as a precocious and lonely fourteen-year-old. Her schoolgirl crush developed into an intense relationship, but it was always one which she controlled. 
 
Or did she? 
 
A controversial, compelling debut novel from an award-winning writer which will appeal to fans of The Girl on a Train.

Precocious

Gloria Cook

In the small mining village of Meryen, a dark secret lurks… 
 
Amy Lewarne finds her life changed forever when she finds her brother, Toby, dead – and trouble follows when Titus Kivell, the head of a powerful yet belligerent family, puts his son Sol in Toby's place. 
 
Despite his wild and formidable nature, Amy is inexplicably drawn to Sol, as he is to her. But will his family ties be the ruin of her? 
 
Book One in the Meryen series – a Cornish saga perfect for fans of Poldark, Dilly Court and Val Wood 
 
Note: previously published as Keeping Echoes

The Carpenter's Daughter

Maggie Ford

There’s no escape from the effects of war... 
 
It’s June 1914 and young Connie Lovell should be helping with the war effort. Instead, she applies for a job at the London Herald, where she meets the handsome editor Stephen Clayton. 
 
Nine years her senior, she knows her family won’t approve. She is helplessly drawn to him, and despite a past he won’t talk about, he is undeniably attracted to her. But as the war rages on, will Stephen be forced to enlist, and can their union survive the consequences?

A Girl in Wartime

Rosie Clarke

The war is over, but Emma’s battles continue at home… 
 
Emma Reece is slowly adjusting to her husband’s return from the war, even though his appalling injuries mean their marriage is in name only. 
 
But then tragedy strikes, and Emma finds she cannot turn to Jack Harvey, her long-standing friend and one-time lover – for while he still loves her, he is now a married man… 
 
The final instalment in the ‘Emma’ trilogy, from Rosie Clarke, the author of The Downstairs Maid 
 
(Note: previously published as The Hearts that Hold by Linda Sole)

Emma's Duty

(Emma Trilogy 3)

Beth Miller

Everyone has secrets. How far will you go to protect yours? 
 
After living next to the neighbours from hell, Minette is overjoyed when Cath and her two children move in next door. Cath soon becomes her confidante, a kindred spirit, even her daughter’s babysitter. 
 
But Cath keeps herself unusually guarded and is reluctant to speak of her past. And when Minette witnesses something unspeakable, she begins to question whether she really knows her new friend at all… 
 
An addictive and gripping novel, perfect for fans of Liane Moriarty and Daughter

The Good Neighbour

Laura Andersen

A choice to forever change the course of history. 
 
While English soldiers prepare for the threat of invasion, William Tudor struggles with his own 
personal battles: he still longs for his childhood friend. But Minuette has married William’s trusted 
advisor, Dominic, in secret – an act of betrayal that puts both their lives in danger. 
 
Meanwhile, with war on the horizon, Princess Elizabeth must decide where her duty really lies: 
with her brother or her country… 
 
Perfect for fans of Philippa Gregory and Alison Weir, The Boleyn Reckoning concludes the trilogy 
of the Tudor king who never was: Henry IX.

The Boleyn Reckoning

P.D. Viner

It begins with a father calling his daughter, but whoever answers is not Pia but his daughter’s killer. He must listen, horrified, to the sounds of his only child being murdered, powerless to intervene as the killer utters two chilling words. 
 
‘Beautiful skin…’ 
 
Most men’s thoughts would turn to vengeance but Pia’s father is far more resourceful than most. And he is not the reserved businessman his daughter always believed him to be, but Franco, a notorious London drug lord who will call in all his debts to find his daughter’s killer. Including the one owed to him by DI Tom Bevans.

Summer of Ghosts

All she wanted was her husband to come home… 
 
Newly married to the caring RAF pilot Jonathan Reece, Emma thinks that life couldn’t be better. But her happiness is short-lived: within months, Jon’s plane is shot down over France and he is declared missing, presumed dead. 
 
Alone and with two children to care for, Emma’s first thought is how to support her family. But when she makes a new friend in the American businessman Jack Harvey, she is faced with a difficult decision. Should she take a last chance at happiness? 
 
The second book in the ‘Emma’ trilogy – a warm, nostalgic saga, perfect for fans of Katie Flynn 
 
(Note: previously published as The Bonds That Break by Linda Sole)

Emma's War

(Emma Trilogy 2)

Lilian Carmine

Joey Halloway is looking to the future 
 
Freshly married to her high-school sweetheart, Joey is excited for an uncomplicated life, free from the paranormal terrors she and Tristan have endured. 
 
But first, she must face her past 
 
She’s never known where her unique supernatural abilities came from, and she also doesn’t know anything about her father – could these be related? 
 
In search for answers, she stands to lose it all 
 
Enrolling at ‘The Gathering’, an event where witches from all over the globe unite to develop their powers, it’s not long before news of a secret League reaches Joey’s inquisitive ears. But there is someone – or something – that doesn’t want her to find out, and will go to any lengths to stop her… 
 
The thrilling finale to The Lost Boys trilogy. A romantic novel perfect for fans of Stephenie Meyer and Lauren Kate.

Lost and Found

A family at war... 
 
Raising three boys and running the Arcadia Hotel almost single-handed are enough to keep widow Kitty Ryan busy. She has no time for romance – unless it’s in the form of a rare evening out at the local picture house. 
 
Then along comes John Mcleod, bringing with him a second chance at happiness. However, Kitty finds her sons unwilling to accept another man into their household. 
 
Unless she can reunite her menfolk, the future looks set to be that of a family in conflict, in a world on the eve of war...

A Mother's Duty

Danny Wallace

Tom got a note from his girlfriend. It says she hasn't left him, but she's gone. 
 
But where the hell is she? When is she coming back? And what is Tom supposed to do in the meantime? 
 
With each new clue to Hayley’s whereabouts, Tom is forced to question whether he truly knows his girlfriend at all. Because who is Hayley really, anyway? Who is this other strange girl following him? 
 
And who, for that matter, is Tom Ditto? 
 
A laugh out loud high concept love story with a mystery at its heart, for fans of Nick Hornby and David Nicholls from the bestselling author of Yes Man and F*** You Very Much 
 
What people are saying about Who is Tom Ditto?: 
 
'Danny Wallace at his very best: funny, assured and relentlessly clever. A brilliant novel' John Niven 
 
'A terrific novel...the plot is wild and unexpected, with a dash of sinister, and it's incredibly funny' The Times 
 
'Wallace is adept at capturing the nuances of the mundane and the ridiculous, while being incredibly funny' Stylist 
 
'A hilarious and fresh take on modern life. Brilliantly written' Heat

Who is Tom Ditto?

The feelgood comedy with a mystery at its heart

All she has is her reputation… 
 
When Emma Robinson discovers she is carrying Paul Greenslade’s child, there are harsh consequences after he disappears rather than marry a common shop-girl. 
 
Forced by her tyrannical father to marry Richard Gillows, Emma learns quickly that a jealous husband is a violent one. How can Emma escape the ties that bind her, to build a life for herself and her child? 
 
From the author of The Downstairs Maid 
 
(Note: previously published as The Ties That Bind by Linda Sole)

Emma

(Emma Trilogy 1)

Torn between his kingdom and the woman he loves. . . 
 
William Tudor, now King Henry IX, sits alone on the throne. But England must still contend with those who doubt his legitimacy. William is betrothed to a young princess from France, but still he has eyes only for his childhood friend Minuette, and court tongues are wagging. 
 
Even more dangerous – if discovered – is that Minuette’s heart and soul belong to Dominic, William’s best friend and trusted advisor. . .

The Boleyn Deceit

‘I never think of Laura as my step-sister, but that’s what she is.’ 
 
Once they were the best of friends, inseparable as only teenage girls can be. 
 
That is until Miffy’s Jewish father runs off with Laura’s Catholic mother and both of their families imploded – as well as Laura’s intense relationship with Miffy’s brother... 
 
Twenty years on, they’re all about to meet again...

When We Were Sisters

Roberta Rich

Safiye had more to worry about than simply birthing this child. Her only son might not live to hear the call for morning prayers. If there ever was a time when the Empire required a male heir it was now. 
 
In the opulent royal palace of Murat III, on the shores of Constantinople, midwife Hannah Levi is charged with ensuring the Sultan’s harem provides him with a male heir. 
 
If she fails, the entire Ottoman Empire will collapse. But the slave girl who has been stolen away to be the Sultan’s latest concubine is not all she seems...

The Harem Midwife

Long live Henry IX! 
 
Just seventeen years old, King Henry IX, known as William, is anxious to prove himself. With the French threatening war and the Catholics’ rebellion, he trusts only three people: his older sister Elizabeth; his loyal counsellor, Dominic; and Minuette, a young orphan raised as a royal ward by William’s mother, Anne Boleyn. 
 
Against a tide of secrets, betrayal, and murder, William finds himself fighting for the very soul of his kingdom – and for his right to marry for love not duty. . .

The Boleyn King

Eveline’s father believes a woman’s place is in the home... 
 
But when she is accidentally caught up in a suffragette march, it changes her life forever. 
 
She finds friendships, and even the possibility of love too in the form of the gentlemanly Laurence Jones-Fairbrook. But will she be forced to choose between her family and friends... between duty and love? 
 
(Note: previously published as Give Me Tomorrow by Elizabeth Lord)

A Woman's Place

Ruth Reichl

Dear Mr Beard, 
 
I sent my Magic Moments off yesterday, and that made me think of you. 
 
I hope the cookies will remind Father of our life here. Or maybe I should say what life used to be, before the war changed everything . . . 
 
Hidden in the library of Delicious! magazine young intern Billie discovers the wartime letters of twelve-year-old Lulu Swan, written to distinguished food writer, James Beard. Lulu’s can-do spirit in the face of food shortages and other hardships help Billie come to terms with her own tragic past. Until one day it occurs to her: Lulu Swan might still be alive...

Delicious!

Something very bad happened to Dani Lancing. 
 
Twenty years later, her father is still trying to get her to talk. 
 
Her best-friend has become a detective, the last hope of all the lost girls. 
 
And her mother is about to become a killer… 
 
A hauntingly original debut that will stay with you long after the last page.

The Last Winter of Dani Lancing

Will she ever be her soldier’s sweetheart? 
 
Jenny has been in love with the handsome and successful Matthew Ward since she was sixteen. Only she was too shy to make her feelings known. 
 
When Matthew joins the army Jenny is also determined to do her bit for the war effort and becomes a nurse. Her newfound skills give her fresh confidence. However, when they meet again will he be the same man she once loved? 
 
(note: previously published as For All the Bright Promise)

Call Nurse Jenny

Scarlett Bailey

From reluctant bridesmaid, to accidental mother… 
 
Tamsyn Thorne has not been back to her home town of Poldore for five long years. 
 
But now her brother, Ruan, is about to get married and she has no excuses left. 
 
Her plans to arrive in Cornwall looking chic and successful are dashed when a huge storm turns her from fashion goddess to a drowned rat. Worse, she ends up insulting the local hunky vicar – and then finds a tiny baby abandoned in his churchyard…

Two Weddings and a Baby

Jenny Barden

Emme Fifield has fallen about as far as a gentlewoman can. 
 
Once a lady-in-waiting to Queen Elizabeth, her only hope of surviving the scandal that threatens to engulf her is to escape England for a fresh start in the New World, where nobody has ever heard of the Duchess of Somerset. 
 
Emme joins Kit Doonan’s rag-tag band of idealists, desperados and misfits bound for Virginia. But such a trip will be far from easy and Emme finds her attraction to the mysterious Doonan inconvenient to say the least...

The Lost Duchess

She is a servant girl... 
 
When her father becomes ill, Emily Carter finds herself sent into service at Priorsfield Manor in order to provide the family with an income. 
 
He will be the Lord of the Manor... 
 
Emily strikes up an unlikely friendship with the daughters of the house, as well as Nicolas, son of the Earl. But as the threat of war comes ever closer, she becomes even more aware of the vast differences between upstairs and downstairs, servant and master... 
 
If you like Downton Abbey you’ll love this!

The Downstairs Maid

Even Death can’t keep them apart... 
 
After falling in love with a ghost, Joey has succeeded in saving her boyfriend from Death, not once but twice. 
 
But then a mysterious and horrifying creature begins stalking Joey – can Tristan save her before it’s too late?

The Lost Girl

Maggie Hope

Sadie Raine has a bad reputation... 
 
When she runs off with a Canadian airman, her two young daughters are left behind to pick up the pieces. 
 
But Cath Raine is determined to rise above the local gossips. Only, when she meets the upper-class Jack on the grounds of his father’s estate, she is tempted by the thought of an affair. Is she destined to follow in her mother’s scandalous footsteps after all...? 
 
(Note: previously published as The Pitman's Brat by Una Horne)

Like Mother, Like Daughter

Can she escape the hardships of her past? 
 
Growing up in London’s tough East End, young Sara Porter has had to learn to take care of herself. Her mother resents her maternal responsibilities and has never shown her daughter the slightest bit of love. 
 
Starved of affection, Sara vows not to let anyone get close and focuses instead on getting out of the East End. But still she hopes that one day she’ll find a real family to call her own… 
 
(Note: previously published as The Angry Heart by Elizabeth Lord)

A Mother's Love

Karen Ross

‘I often think my mother would prefer colonic irrigation to hanging out with me...’ 
 
Beth Jackson is a national treasure, celebrated for her television shows and winning the Mother of the Year Award three times in a row. 
 
Only, her daughter just wishes that Beth would be more like a normal mum...

Mother of the Year

Sam North

Meet the ultimate Scrooge... 
 
The festive season in the small Cornish village of Portwenn is going to be anything but easy for curmudgeonly Doc Martin. His idea of a perfect Christmas Day is to remain steadfastly alone and catch up with back issues of The Lancet. 
 
However, Portwenn is fighting off the cold and frost with a period of determined revelry before it heads into its deep winter sleep, and his patients are even more exasperating than usual. Not to mention his on-off relationship with local school teacher, Louisa. 
 
It will take all of Doc Martin’s willpower to fend off the attentions of the Christmas spirit...

Doc Martin: Mistletoe and Whine

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Tim and Biscuit, two unlikely friends, always seem to get themselves into difficult situations. From their first meeting in Cliffhanger, where bookish Tim is forced to endure an activities camp, to Buried Alive, where a quiet camping holiday turns out to be full of surprises, there is never a dull moment with these two around.Jaqueline Wilson’s hilarious duo of books catalogues their escapades, triumphs and failures, with a good helping of snacks along the way!

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