A. J. Liebling, born in Manhattan in 1904, joined the staff of the New Yorker in 1935 and contributed innumerable articles to the magazine throughout his lifetime, on subjects ranging from food to boxing and France to horse racing. As a war correspondent during the Second World War, he reported from France, England and Algeria, and participated in the Normandy landings. In later life he married the writer Jean Stafford, his third wife. He died in 1963.

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A. J. Rosen is an author of YA fantasy and is known as @agatharoza on Wattpad.

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A. O. Scott has been a film critic at the New York Times since 2000. His writing has appeared in many other publications, including the New York Review of Books, Slate, the New Yorker and the Nation. A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in criticism in 2010, Scott is currently Distinguished Professor of Film Criticism at Wesleyan University. He lives with his family in Brooklyn, New York. 
 
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A.S. Byatt (1936-2023) was a novelist, short-story writer and critic of international renown. Her novels include Possession (winner of the Booker Prize 1990), the Frederica Quartet and The Children’s Book, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction. She was appointed CBE in 1990 and DBE in 1999, and was awarded the Erasmus Prize 2016 for her ‘inspiring contribution to life writing’ and the Pak Kyongni Prize 2017. In 2018 she received the Hans Christian Andersen Literature Award.

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A. T. Williams won the George Orwell Prize for Political Writing in 2013 for his book A Very British Killing: The Death of Baha Mousa. He lives in Warwickshire.

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Dubbed ‘The new queen of spy fiction’ by the Guardian newspaper, and ‘the real thing’ by the Washington Post, A.C. 'Ava' Glass is the CWA Dagger-shortlisted author of Alias Emma (The Chase), The Traitor and The Trap. The Traitor was a 2023 Richard and Judy Bookclub pick. Alias Emma was a Barnes and Noble book of the month. A former crime reporter and communications consultant, for five years Ava worked closely with spies. Her time in that world fascinated her, and the people she met back then inspire every book she writes.

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Arthur Edward Waite was the designer and co-creator of the now famous Rider Waite Tarot deck. 
 
An American-born British poet and scholarly mystic, his strong interest in all esoteric matters - divination, magic, Kabbalism, alchemy and Freemasony - led to him penning a number of books. These include the Key to the Tarot, The Book of Ceremonial Magic and A New Encyclopedia of Freemasony.

A.E. Waite

A.E. Warren is the author of the Tomorrow's Ancestors series, which consists of Subject Twenty-One, The Hidden Base, The Fourth Species and The Final Rising. 
 
After spending eight years working as a lawyer, she began to write in the evenings and early mornings as a form of escapism from life in a very small cubicle with lots of files. She self-published her first novels in her spare time, which were picked up by Del Rey UK which is the science fiction/fantasy imprint of Penguin Random House. 
 
 She is an avid reader, occasional gamer and fair-weather runner. She lives in the UK with her husband, daughter and hopefully, one day, a wise border terrier named Austen.

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A K Benedict writes crime and speculative fiction in a room filled with clowns, mannequins and Doctor Who figures. Her first novel, The Beauty of Murder, was nominated for an eDunnit award and is in development for a major 8-part TV series by Company Pictures. Her second, Jonathan Dark or The Evidence of Ghosts, came out in February 2016. She's written Torchwood audio dramas for Big Finish and her short stories have featured in anthologies including Great British Horror and Best British Short Stories. She lives in St Leonards-on-Sea with her dog, Dame Margaret Rutherford.

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A. L. Kennedy has twice been selected as one of Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists and has won a host of other awards – including the Costa Book of the Year for her novel Day. She lives in Essex.

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A.M. Ellis is a speculative fiction author and lover of everything steeped in myth and mystery. Her stories often lean into diverse voices, not only in her identity as a Black woman, but in exploring neurodivergence and mental health. A proud introvert and nostalgic gamer, she lives in Maryland, USA, with her husband and three children. Angelica is also the author of Hunt A Killer, a PERFECT SCORE novel, under the pen name A.M. Ellis, which she wrote as an IP for Scholastic in the US.

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A.N. Wilson was born in 1950 and educated at Rugby and New College, Oxford. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, he holds a prominent position in the world of literature and journalism. He is an award-winning biographer and a celebrated novelist, winning prizes for much of his work. He lives in North London.

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A.B.C. Merriman-Labor was a barrister, writer and munitions worker born in Freetown, Sierra Leone in 1877. His published works include A Series of Lectures on the Negro Race and The Story of the African Slave in a Nutshell. He also edited two editions of the Handbook of Sierra Leone. He arrived in the UK in 1904 to study law. In 1907, he organised a centenary commemoration of the abolition of the slave trade in Westminster Abbey. He later embarked on an 'entertainment-lecture' tour called Life and Scenes in Britain, travelling across thousands of miles of West, South West and Central Africa, which he expanded on to create Britons Through Negro Spectacles.

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Aabria Iyengar is an American actress and author.

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Aaliya Jaleel is a freelance illustrator, designer, and visual development artist, currently majoring in Animation at the University of Texas at Dallas. She is also the illustrator of Under My Hijab and Muslim Girls Rise. You can visit her online at www.aaliyamj.com.

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Aaron Allston

After more than fifteen years of experience as a clinical psychotherapist, Dr Aaron Balick has taken the amazing insights from psychology and psychotherapy out of the consultation room and made them accessible to the wider world. 
 
He has been an ‘agony uncle’ for many years for both CBBC and BBC Radio 1, as well as on television, including BBC Worldwide, BBC 3 and BBC Learning.

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Aaron Dignan is the founder of The Ready--a global organizational transformation and coaching practice--that helps companies large and small adopt new forms of self-organization and dynamic teaming. Clients include Johnson &amp; Johnson, Microsoft, Lloyds Bank, Citibank, Boeing, Mailchimp, Airbnb, Dropbox, and charity: water. 
 
He is also the founder of Murmur--a SaaS startup that helps teams scale culture through the magic of working agreements. The Murmur platform will allow every team on the planet to define and share their ways of working. 
 
Dignan is the author of Brave New Work (2019) and Game Frame (2011), co-host of the Brave New Work podcast, and a friend to misfit toys.

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Aaron Edwards is a senior lecturer in defence and international affairs at the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst, specialising in terrorism and counter-insurgency. He is the author and editor of several books, including Defending the Realm: The Politics of Britain’s Small Wars Since 1945, and has lectured all over the world on aspects of national and international security. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.

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Aaron Robertson is a writer, an editor, and a translator of Italian literature. His translation of Igiaba Scego’s Beyond Babylon was short-listed for the 2020 PEN Translation Prize and the National Translation Award, and in 2021 he received a National Endowment for the Arts grant. His work has appeared in the New York Times, The Nation, Foreign Policy, n+1, The Point, and Literary Hub, among other publications. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

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Joanna Toye

New stories are being written at The Little Penguin Bookshop… 
 
Carrie Anderson’s business selling books at her local train station is thriving and, with her beloved Mike returned from war, everything feels as though it is falling into place. That is, until Mike is sent to Washington as a liaison between Britain and America. 
 
When her twin brother, Johnnie, a fighter pilot, is injured, and her bookstall falls on hard times, Carrie misses the sage advice and comfort of Mike more than ever. 
 
Bolstered by her supportive station community, can Carrie battle through this challenging new chapter and reach the happy ending she deserves? 
 
Praise for Joanna Toye: 
 
'Romance, nostalgia, family, and books! The Little Penguin Bookshop has it all' Elaine Everest 
'Endearing characters [...] wartime loves, laughter and heartbreak' Annie Murray 
'A charming heroine, a dashing hero and books! I loved it!' Lesley Eames 
'An uplifting wartime saga with family at its heart' Tracy Baines 
'Meticulously researched and beautifully written' Helen Yendall

A New Chapter at the Little Penguin Bookshop

Maggie Campbell

1929. Holcombe Hall, Lancashire 
 
Parlour maid Florrie Bickerstaff has always endured the quick temper of Lady Charlotte, calmly navigated the formidable housekeeper, Bertha and avoided the officious butler, Mr Arkwright. But it’s all been worth it for the attention of Sir Richard. 
 
He has shown Florrie nothing but kindness, and her heart can’t help but lift when he enters the room. But she is a mere parlour maid and he a successful tycoon. 
 
When the house is in need of a new housekeeper, Florrie discovers she was not as invisible as she first thought. As she rises to the challenge of her new role, Sir Richard finds many an excuse to spend time with her and the rules of upstairs and downstairs swiftly blur...

The Housekeeper of Holcombe Hall

James Holland

A Times 2024 Best Summer Read 
 
The village of Alvesdon has been home to the Castells for generations. But the year is 1939 and the peace and tranquillity there is about to be shattered once more by the stormclouds of war in Europe. As three generations of the family gather, they must all face the prospect of their lives being transformed beyond recognition the moment Britain declares war on Germany. 
 
When the inevitable happens and Britain finds itself at war, the younger members of the family and farm workers are called up to fight and those who remain must battle to keep the home fires burning and the farm afloat. The gentle certainties of rural life are replaced by the urgent clamour of war, in the air, at sea and on land, where events unfold with dizzying rapidity and unexpected consequences. 
 
Stretching from the glorious summer of 1939 to the Battle of Britain the following year, acclaimed historian James Holland paints a compelling and immersive fictional portrait of how the war changed everything. For one family and for a community, their way of life can never really be the same again…

Alvesdon

Mimi Matthews

A silver-haired equestrienne and a charismatic artist turn a scandalous bargain into a vibrant portrait of love. 
 
Stella Hobhouse is a brilliant rider, stalwart friend, skilled sketch artist&mdash;and completely overlooked. Her outmodish gray hair makes her invisible to London society. Combined with her brother&rsquo;s pious restrictions and her dwindling inheritance, Stella is on the verge of a lifetime marooned in Derbyshire as a spinster. Unless she does something drastic&hellip;like posing for a daring new style of portrait by the only man who&rsquo;s ever really seen her. 
 
Aspiring painter Edward &ldquo;Teddy&rdquo; Hayes knows true beauty when he sees it. He would never ask Stella to risk her reputation as an artist&rsquo;s model but in the five years since a virulent bout of scarlet fever left him partially paralyzed, Teddy has learned to heed good fortune when he finds it. He&rsquo;ll do anything to persuade his muse to pose for him, even if he must offer her a marriage of convenience. 
 
After all, though Teddy has yearned to trace Stella&rsquo;s luminous beauty on canvas since their chance meeting, her heart is what he truly aches to capture&hellip;.

The Muse of Maiden Lane

Catherine Cookson

At fifteen years old, Gail Blenheim is the truly the apple of her father, Harry's, eye. Sweet, mild-mannered, with the promise to grow into a true beauty, she'll always bring her father joy, which is something he'll never take for granted. 
 
But Gail knows that her father is unhappy. Stuck under his odious father-in-law's thumb and resigned to a near-loveless marriage, Gail can see that he feels trapped. 
 
But when Harry lets his loneliness get the better of him at a Christmas party, he sparks a scandal with such far-reaching repercussions that he may lose everything, including his own daughter. But Gail's devotion for her father is stronger than he realises and she refuses to give up on the man she's looked up to for her whole life. 
 
Can a daughter's love save her father from ruin?

A Scandal at Christmas

Kirsty Dougal

The Sanctuary Lane Animal Hospital is up and running, and proving a huge success. For Ruby Archer, this is a dream come true – and her blossoming romance with a handsome local boy is the icing on the cake. 
 
But this is wartime, and things change in the blink of an eye. When tragedy shatters Ruby’s world, suddenly she is at odds with everyone - even her new sweetheart. And when disaster strikes, endangering the hospital's future, she is not sure who to trust. 
 
With the festive season fast approaching, Ruby desperately needs a miracle. But where can she turn in troubled war times? And is there time to find out what really matters in time for Christmas?

A Christmas Miracle on Sanctuary Lane

Penelope Lively

Claudia Hampton - beautiful, famous, independent, dying. 
 
But she remains defiant to the last, telling her nurses that she will write a 'history of the world . . . and in the process, my own'. And it is her story from a childhood just after the First World War through the Second and beyond. But Claudia's life is entwined with others and she must allow those who knew her, loved her, the chance to speak, to put across their point of view. There is Gordon, brother and adversary; Jasper, her untrustworthy lover and father of Lisa, her cool conventional daughter; and then there is Tom, her one great love, found and lost in wartime Egypt. 
 
The masterpiece of one of the century's finest novelists, Moon Tiger is a haunting, evocative and dazzlingly original story of loss and desire - now with a new introduction by Elif Shafak.

Moon Tiger

Katie Flynn

The first installment in the brand new Runaway's series from the Sunday Times bestselling author. 
 
Tammy and her mother, Grace, are desperate to escape Tammy’s violent bully of a father. But when an unforeseen tragedy strikes, mother and daughter must flee Scotland in the dead of night. 
 
To survive the severest of penalties, they leave behind everything they know and love – including one another. 
 
Under new identities, Tammy and Grace must start afresh. Tammy joins the services and there she meets a dashing officer who begins to break her guard down. 
 
But can the course of true love ever run smooth with Tammy unable to reveal her true self? 
 
 
Sunday Times bestseller, March 2024

The Winter Runaway

Donna Douglas

London's East End, 1957 
 
In the Nightingale Hospital, Matron Helen finds herself playing surrogate mother to her newly discovered French niece Catrine, while having to keep their family relationship a secret from the rest of the staff. 
 
However, independent Catrine is determined to do things her way, and break the rules. But underneath it all, she is lost, still mourning the loss of her mother and struggling to get along with her new family. 
 
Helen's own heart is aching since the breakdown of her marriage with David, which isn’t helped when he returns to work at the hospital. Can she work side by side with the man she still loves? 
 
Helen’s isn’t the only marriage that hangs in the balance, as Nurse Dora faces a shock that could mean the end of her own marriage… 
 
Can love conquer all at the Nightingale Hospital?

Nurses on Call

Gracie Hart

Rowntrees Factory, York 1936 
 
The aroma of chocolate was as familiar to Molly Freeman as the nose on her face. Living and schooling on Haxby Road alongside the Rowntrees Chocolate Factory, Molly watched the daily trudge of women employed there in their white uniforms as she sat at her school desk. 
 
When Molly secures a job on the production line at the factory, she's excited to become one of these women. As she labours hard at the factory, she meets Connie. Quickly the two form a close friendship, and Molly begins to see the world differently. 
 
Living their lives to the fullest, loving the wrong men, working long hours, and sharing tears of friendship and heartbreak but always being known and being proud to be called The Rowntrees Chocolate Box Girls Molly and Connie make the most of their lives.

The Chocolate Box Girls

Nina George

In a small town in balmy Provence, Marie-Jeanne has a gift. She can see the marks Love has left on the people around her. Glowing faces, hands that shimmer brighter when enclosed in another. Before long, she is playing matchmaker. 
 
When Marie-Jeanne's foster father, Francis, sets up a mobile library travelling the many mountain towns of the Nyons region, she takes her quest further. Their library offers entertainment, guidance, reassurance and comfort - but for Marie-Jeanne, the books also allow her to bring soulmates together. 
 
The only person she can't seem to find a partner for is herself. Everyone must have a soulmate. Will Marie-Jeanne be able to recognise hers when Love finally comes her way?

The Little French Village of Book Lovers

Emma Royal

Discover the captivating historical romance packed full of drama, forbidden love, and secrets from below the royal stairs, perfect for fans of The Crown and Downton Abbey. 
 
 
Buckingham Palace, 1952 
 
As a telephonist in the Royal Household, Helen Hill hears many private conversations on a daily basis. 
 
Whilst the sad death of King George preoccupies the minds of those around her, Helen is battling her own difficult family news alone. 
 
When she meets Jake, a dashing journalist, she is won over by his charm. Their time together brings a sense of joy and freedom she hasn't experienced in years. 
 
But Jake has a plan for Helen, who holds the key to royal secrets that could lead to a front-page story. 
 
A story that would change his career, and both their fortunes, forever… 
 
Torn between duty and love, Helen must face an impossible decision. Where do her loyalties really lie? 
 
 
Praise for The Palace Girls: 
 
'An engrossing, emotional read' Betty Walker, author of WW2 historical fiction saga series The Cornish Girls 
 
‘A treasure trove of fascinating historical detail' Lesley Eames, bestselling author of WW2 saga series The Wartime Bookshop 
 
'Five stars!' Norma Curtis, author of The Coronation Party 
 
'Breathtaking, richly atmospheric, and totally immersive' Andie Newton, USA Today bestselling author 
 
‘A clever, pertinent and enjoyable read’ Jenny Holmes, author of The Spitfire Girls Series 
 
‘Intriguingly romantic’ Peterborough Review 
 
‘Downtown fans will enjoy this well-crafted novel’ Choice Magazine

The Palace Girl's Secret

Jenny Holmes

'Live for the day' is the motto for the times, and our girls plan to waltz their worries away... 
 
Ever-ambitious Sylvia wants more from her life, so starts planning a Dance Weekend at the Winter Gardens – not easy in wartime when air raids could cancel an event at the last minute. What she doesn't expect is for the competition to bring the dashing Vernon into her life too! Could everything finally fall into place for Sylvia? 
 
Joy's life has entirely turned around in the last year. Newly married to her beloved Tommy and at the helm of her family's business in Manchester, she can't believe how far she's come. But will the plight of her young employee Mildred throw things off course? Or will she and Tommy still be able to perfect their waltz in time for the competition? 
 
Pearl is still longing for her darling Bernie to return from the war. Dancing is the best way to distract herself from her worries, so she throws herself into rehearsing the jive with handsome GI partner Errol. But as tongues begin to wag, will the ballroom still provide the solace she needs? 
 
As the war wears on, can the Ballroom Girls really hit the big time?

The Ballroom Girls Hit the Big Time

Emma R. Alban

There&rsquo;s a fine line between love and hate. 
 
Bobby Mason is sick of being second best: born the spare with the personality of the heir. 
 
James Demeroven, is a Viscount who wishes he wasn&rsquo;t one. His title brings far too much attention. 
 
They can barely get through a single conversation without tensions boiling over. Neither Bobby nor James has ever met a more intriguing, infuriating, infatuating man. 
 
If only they could avoid each other entirely. 
 
But when an extortionist starts targeting their families, Bobby and James must find a way to work together, without pushing each other&rsquo;s buttons (or tearing them off) in the process. . .

You're The Problem, It's You

Libby Ashworth

Lancashire, 1850s 
 
Agnes Cavanaugh has watched her mother,Kitty struggle to put food on the table ever since they crossed the sea from Ireland. So when she sees an opportunity to help earn some money by selling cheese at the local market she begins to work with the local farm to maximise on sales. 
 
Much to her mother, Kitty&rsquo;s, disappointment, Agnes is immediately drawn to the farmer&rsquo;s son, Jonas. And Jonas can&rsquo;t help but be enchanted by Agnes. But their love faces many challenges, Agnes has been promised to another and Jonas cannot marry a Roman Catholic. 
 
Will Agnes risk everything she&rsquo;s done for her family in her quest for happiness?

The Market Girl

India Holton

Two rival ornithologists. 
Seeking one dangerous, beautiful bird. 
Is the hunt of their lives also how they find the love of their lives? 
 
Professor Beth Pickering is on the verge of finally capturing the rare Deathwhistler bird when Professor Devon Lockley swoops in, stealing both her bird and her imagination. 
 
For his part, Devon has never been more smitten than when he first set eyes on Beth. 
 
When a competition to become Birder of the Year by capturing an endangered caladrius bird is announced, Beth and Devon are forced to team up to have any chance of winning. 
 
They're hunting the rarest of species. But will these rivals discover something even more endangered – true love . . .

The Ornithologist's Field Guide to Love

Love's Academic Series Book 1

In a house of secrets, can good prevail? 
 
Though Sarah comes from the wrong end of the Fifteen Streets, she's always been determined to make the best of her life. And when she attracts the attention of the young David Heatherington, with his kind eyes and gentle voice, it seems her luck is finally on the up. 
 
That is, until she meets David's mother, the indominable Mary Heatherington. A fierce woman who runs a spotless house, Mary's authority over the men of her family has never been challenged. So when Sarah arrives and brings with her a liveliness and laughter that has long been absent from the Heatherington household, Mary quickly takes against her. 
 
As Sarah struggles to find her place in her new family, she soon discovers that even the people she trusts the most have secrets they're anxious to hide . . . but how far will they go to keep them?

A Wife's Devotion

Gabriel García Márquez

'César Montero was dreaming about elephants. He'd seen them at the movies on Sunday...' 
 
Moments later, César is arrested by police who clear the crowds away from the man he has just killed. 
 
But César is not the only man riled the rumours spread in his hometown - someone creeps through the streets sticking malicious posters to walls and doors. Paranoia seeps through the town - can the perpetrator be uncovered before leaving the inhabitants' sanity in tatters? 
 
In Evil Hour is re-issued on Gabriel García Márquez 's birthday to celebrate the publication of his books as ebooks for the first time.

In Evil Hour

'Suddenly, as if a whirlwind had set down roots in the center of the town, the banana company arrived, pursued by the leaf storm' 
 
A blizzard of slums descends on Macondo; the inhabitants reel at the accompanying stench. When the banana company leaves town as fast as it arrived, they are left with a void of decay. 
 
Living in this soulless wasteland is one last honourable man, who is determined to fulfil a longstanding promise, however unpalatable. 
 
Leaf Storm is re-issued on Gabriel García Márquez 's birthday to celebrate the publication of his books in ebook for the first time.

Leaf Storm

'My mother asked me to go with her to sell the house' 
 
Gabriel García Márquez was twenty-three when his mother asked him to come with her, back to the village of Aracataca. In this first part of Gabriel García Márquez's memoir, the Nobel prize-winning author returns to the atmosphere and influences that that shaped his formidable imagination and formed the basis of his world-famous, and much-loved, fiction. 
 
Living to Tell the Tale is re-issued on Gabriel García Márquez 's birthday to celebrate the publication of his books as ebooks for the first time.

Living to Tell the Tale

Pablo Escobar: billionaire drugs baron, brutal killer and jefe of the infamous Medellín cartel. Terrified of the new Colombian President's determination to extradite him to America, Escobar found the best bargaining tools he could find: hostages. 
 
In the winter of 1990, ten relatives of Colombian politicians were abducted and held hostage as Escobar attempted to strong-arm the government into blocking his extradition. Márquez retells, with vivid clarity, the terror and uncertainty of those dark, volatile months. 
 
News of a Kidnapping is re-issued on Gabriel García Márquez 's birthday to celebrate the publication of his books as ebooks for the first time.

News of a Kidnapping

Their nostalgic memories of home, their sense of anonymity in a foreign land, the terrifying pang of vulnerability they feel as they step over the threshold into an alien world... 
 
These pilgrims - the ageing prostitute preparing for death, the panicked husband scared for the life of his injured wife, the old man who allows his mind to wander on a long-haul flight from Paris - experience what it is to be an outsider living far from home. 
 
Strange Pilgrims is re-issued on Gabriel García Márquez 's birthday to celebrate the publication of his books as ebooks for the first time.

Strange Pilgrims

As the citizens of an unnamed Caribbean nation creep through the corridors of the presidential palace in search of their tyrannical leader, they cannot comprehend that the frail and withered man laying dead on the floor can be the self-styled General of the Universe. Their egocentric, maniacally violent leader, known for serving up traitors to dinner guests and drowning young children at sea, can surely not die the humiliating death of a mere mortal? 
 
The Autumn of the Patriarch is re-issued on Gabriel García Márquez 's birthday to celebrate the publication of his books as ebooks for the first time.

The Autumn of the Patriarch

In his younger days, Simón Bolívar swept the Spanish back to Europe, liberating South America with his youthful vitality. Lonely, embittered and sickly, his power has dwindled and The Liberator enters the exile of retirement. 
 
Bolívar's journey is hindered by his own reluctance to relinquish his power. Despite the assassination attempts, jeering and humiliation he encounters, his fear of fading into the shadows keeps him clinging to the man he used to be... 
 
The General in His Labyrinth is re-issued on Gabriel García Márquez 's birthday to celebrate the publication of his books as ebooks for the first time.

The General in His Labyrinth

Fiona Schneider

One Parisian night, a woman vanishes without a trace, leaving behind the man she loves. Sixty years later, the search begins&hellip; 
 
In 1942, French chef Sylvie is sent to Paris to spy on the enemy, while German soldier Christoph has sold himself to save his sister. 
When they meet the world stops turning. But in a city consumed by war, love is a dangerous affair, and the star-crossed lovers will pay the ultimate price&hellip; 
 
Sixty years later, with Christoph&rsquo;s health declining and his memory fading, his young protégé, Julia, sets out to discover what happened to the woman he never stopped loving. 
 
Can they find the woman who disappeared, or will it be too late?

The Paris Affair

Sebastian Faulks

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 
 
'Faulks's most poignant love story yet' ANTONY BEEVOR 
 
1914: Aspiring journalist Anton arrives in Vienna where he meets Delphine, a woman of deep secrets. Anton is entranced by the light of first love, until his country declares war on hers. 
 
1927: For Lena, life in a small town has been harsh and cold. When her love affair with a young lawyer crumbles, she leaves to take a post at a remote snow-capped sanatorium. 
 
1933: Anton is sent to write about the same clinic, the mysterious Schloss Seeblick. In this place, on the banks of a silvery lake where the roots of human suffering are laid bare, two people will see each other as if for the first time. 
 
&lsquo;A magnificent, moving novel&rsquo; INDEPENDENT 
 
&lsquo;Faulks on his best form&rsquo; TELEGRAPH

Snow Country

Neil Blackmore

'Re-imagines a story of gay men in London 200 years ago and under the pain of their betrayal and injustice, he uncovers loyalty and above all, love&rsquo; SIR IAN MCKELLAN 
 
&lsquo;An imaginative, layered, clever story&rsquo; THE TIMES 
 
London, 1809. By day, minister John Church preaches to a congregation of commonfolk in Southwark. By night, he is drawn to the secretive, alluring world of a molly house on Vere Street. There, ordinary men reinvent themselves as outrageous queens: lads on the make flirt with labourers and princes alike, and John finds himself ordaining marriages between men. 
 
When he meets the unworldly and free-thinking Ned, one of a group of African abolitionists who attend his chapel, John falls in love with Ned's tender nature and discovers how quickly desire can turn to obsession. 
 
Based on the true story of one of the most important events in queer history, RADICAL LOVE is a sensuous and prescient story about gender and sexuality, and how the most vulnerable survive in dangerous times. 
 
&lsquo;One of the boldest novelistic explorations of desire I have read in some time&rsquo; KEIRAN GODDARD 
 
&lsquo;Compellingly real&rsquo; DAILY MAIL

Radical Love

Bonnie Garmus

THE FUNNY AND INSPIRING, MULTI-AWARD-WINNING BESTSELLER WITH MORE THAN 8 MILLION COPIES SOLD, now a major Apple TV+ series starring Brie Larson 
 
A Book of the Year for: Guardian, Times, Sunday Times, New York Times, Good House Keeping, Woman & Home, Stylist, TLS Oprah Daily, Newsweek, Mail on Sunday, NPR, India Knight, Hay Festival, Waterstones, Amazon, Books Are My Bag, and many more! 
 
'The most charming, life-enhancing novel’ Sunday Times 
'Funny, thought-provoking and stylish' Guardian 
‘The best book I've read recently. I loved it’ - SARA COX, BBC 2 Between the Covers 
‘Everyone needs to read this’ 5-star reader review 
___________ 
 
A woman ahead of her time. 
But exactly right for ours 
 
Chemist Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman. In fact, she would be the first to point out that there is no such thing. 
 
But it's the early 1960s and her all-male team at Hastings Research Institute take a very unscientific view of equality. Except for one: Calvin Evans, the lonely, brilliant, Nobel-Prize-nominated grudge-holder who falls in love with - of all things - her mind. 
 
Like science, life is unpredictable. Forced to leave her job at the institute, Elizabeth Zott soon finds herself the reluctant star of America's most beloved cooking show, Supper at Six. Elizabeth's unusual approach to cooking ('Combine one tablespoon acetic acid with a pinch of sodium chloride') proves revolutionary. 
 
But as her following grows, not everyone is happy. Because as it turns out, Elizabeth Zott isn't just teaching women to cook. 
 
She's daring them to change the status quo. One molecule at a time. 
__________ 
 
A New York Times ‘Top 100 Best Books of the 21st Century’ Reader's Pick 
 
Author of the Year at the British Book Awards 
Author of the Year, Waterstones 
Winner of the Goodreads Choice Best Debut Novel Award 
Winner of the Books are My Bag Reader's Choice Award 
Winner of the Books are My Bag Breakthrough Author Award 
Shortlisted for the HWA Crown Award 
 
PRAISE FOR LESSONS IN CHEMISTRY: 
 
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