Prologue: Scotland, 1900 Joseph knows the storm is coming. He sees the yellow glow of the halo around the moon and the ice-glitter of the winter sky when he comes up from the beach, pausing every now ...

From jaw-dropping revelations and stranger-than-fiction anecdotes, to quieter moments of reflection, pain, and joy that we can all relate to, there are few books more captivating or edifying than a ...

The latest volume in Penguin Modern Poets series - moving and unflinchingly honest poems from three different cultures about experiences of the female body, the family, sexual politics and conflict.

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Click the button below to listen or continue scrolling to explore all of the books mentioned in this episode. Lisa Jewell, Abir Mukherjee, Sarah Pearse and more on the crime books that shaped them, ...

The twins’ names were Arthur and Pascoe, traditional Cornish names, and to this day I don’t know which of them came up with the idea of burying me alive, but, as they coexisted in a strangely ...

She needed to stop thinking. Her mind. It had to be empty. Still. Silent. It was dark within the walk- in wardrobe. The only movement the gentle rocking as Anna shifted back and forth, knees bunched ...

It's never too late to teach an old woman new murders...a razor-sharp, edge-of-your-seat new thriller from Sunday Times bestseller Samantha Downing, available to pre-order now! You’d never guess ...

The world can be a dark place at times, and we all need something light-hearted to entertain and distract us. Happily, there are a host of witty, satirical and downright hilarious books out there, ...

Sophie used to adore everything about Christmas. Hot chocolate and velvet bows, fairy lights and mince pies. Until the December her fiancé jilted her. Since then, Sophie opened Sunnyside Hotel, a ...

Throughout her lifetime, Jane Austen wrote countless letters to her sister. But why did Cassandra burn them all? 1840: twenty three years after the death of her famous sister Jane, Cassandra Austen ...

The season of strangeness has begun . . . Many stories are told about the five Mansfield sisters. They are haughty, thinking themselves better than their neighbours in the picturesque village of ...