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THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER An absorbing historical fantasy, She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan reimagines the rise to power of the Ming Dynasty’s founding emperor. ‘This audacious, brilliant debut is a vivid, original reimagining . . . immersive storytelling at its...

From the internationally acclaimed winner of the Booker Prize, “an engrossing tale of one man’s personal odyssey as he grows up, framed in exquisite language” (The New York Times Book Review, Editors’ Choice) “The finest novel yet from one of the great writers of our time.”—The...

This radiant and thrilling debut follows a passionate love affair between two noblewomen who wish to free themselves from their repressive society, whatever the cost. “Propel[s] us into the epicentre of a 17th century Paris where breaking out of the prison of arranged marriage is only one of...

Bloomsbury presents The Watchmaker of Filigree Street by Natasha Pulley, read by Thomas Judd. For readers of Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell, an enchanting, bestselling novel that sweeps readers into a magical Victorian London inhabited by a clockwork octopus and a mysterious watchmaker who is...

Bloomsbury presents The Half Life of Valery K by Natasha Pulley, read by Jot Davies. From the author of The Watchmaker of Filigree Street and The Kingdoms, an epic Cold War novel set in a mysterious town in Soviet Russia with a slow burn romance at its heart. In 1963, in a Siberian prison...

The New York Times bestselling novel that has been called “a tour de force” (Wall Street Journal), “unputdownable” (The Washington Post), “a delicious hothouse of a novel” (USA Today), “effortless” (The Economist), “seductive” (Vanity Fair) and “pitch perfect” (Salon)...

Now a major motion picture directed by Lenny Abrahamson and starring Domhnall Gleeson and Ruth Wilson. “Several sleepless nights are guaranteed.”—Stephen King, Entertainment Weekly One postwar summer in his home of rural Warwickshire, Dr. Faraday, the son of a maid who has built a life of...

An exultant novel of New York City at the turn of the twentieth century, about one man's rise to fame and fortune, and his mysterious murder—“engrossing” (Wall Street Journal), “immersive” (The New Yorker), and “seriously entertaining” (The Sunday Times, London). Andrew Haswell...

'A joy to read' Sophie Ward 'Funny, sexy, heartbreaking' Ann Napolitano 'Wildly inventive and moving' Patrick Ryan East Village, summer of 1984. Renata is a young dyke-about-town who has the ability to see ghosts, which has been happening more and more frequently as her friends have started...

Berlin, the Greek Islands, London and California. 1928, 1932, 1938 and 1940. Four portraits, four settings, four narrators, all known as ‘Christopher Isherwood’. Down There on a Visit tells the vivid stories of Isherwood’s life that, together with The Berlin Novels (Mr Norris Changes Trains and Goodbye to Berlin), were to have comprised his great unfinished epic novel. Delivering the reflective, candid narration that touches on identity, desire, alienation and the urge to belong, Simon Callow brings an exquisite sparkle to each character sketch.

Uma história de amor arrebatadora no Cairo dos anos 1980. O premiado romance de estreia de Éric Chacour na voz de Johnny Massaro. No Cairo dos anos 1980, Tarek é um médico casado, respeitado e bem estabelecido. Quando ele abre uma clínica popular em um bairro pobre da cidade, conhece Ali, um rapaz com quem vive um romance turbulento, que vira sua vida do avesso.

It is 1597 and Kit Skevy and Mariner Elgin have just robbed the wrong grave. They are young criminals in the pocket of a gang Lord named Will Twentyman, the Grave Eorl of Southwark. Mariner is the best cutpurse around, a strange Calvinist girl who dresses like a boy and is partner in crime to...

Cana, Massachusetts, 1730. To the outside world, Reverend Nathaniel Whitfield and his family stand as godly pillars of their small-town community, drawing Christians from across the New World into their fold. One such Christian, physician Arthur Lyman, discovers in the minister's words a love so...

Yoshiba y Fumi se han amado durante toda su vida. El único temor que les asalta es morir y separarse para siempre. Un día, Yoshiba descubre el lugar del que hablaban los viejos: la fuente de la eterna juventud. Pero los viejos amantes pronto entenderán las consecuencias de haber bebido de sus aguas.

Miquel and his father are living an uneasy life together in his mother's house in the Pyrenees, the house she had been returning to on the day she died. A new bridge connecting the remote valley with a changing world is almost complete, which will end its isolation and create an easier route for...

Selected by the New York Times as a "Dazzling, Immersive New Historical Fiction" Title! A gripping novel of two young women fighting for survival on the edge of the wilderness, and the love that simultaneously sustains them and threatens their very existence, from the author of the Good Morning...

'Saturday, the 27th of February, 1627. The master artist Mansur, who works under the patronage of Mughal emperor Jahangir, must finish his painting of a dodo and prepare for an imminent journey to Kashmir when he is interrupted by a younger colleague, Bichitr. An innocuous remark from this...

'A rich and spellbinding 19th-century story of forbidden love' – Independent 'Donoghue evokes a relationship that is convincing and exquisitely touching.' – The Guardian The heartbreaking story of the love of two women – Anne Lister, the real-life inspiration behind Gentleman Jack, and her...

After the men in an Arctic Norwegian town are wiped out, the women must survive a sinister threat in this 1600s parable inspired by real events. Finnmark, Norway, 1617. Twenty-year-old Maren Magnusdatter stands on the craggy coast, watching the sea break into a sudden and reckless storm. Forty...

Drei Romane über die Frauen von Bloomsbury von Stefanie H. Martin. Ein so überraschender wie mitreißender Roman über Virginia Woolf – Ikone der literarischen Moderne und der Frauenbewegung. Die Bloomsbury Group steht bis heute für geistige Freiheit und Liebe in all ihren Facetten. Eine große Liebesgeschichte zwischen zwei Frauen, die für Literatur leben: Virginia Woolf und Vita Sackville-West.