‘A dazzling achievement, heartbreaking, glamourous, elegiac, revelatory and utterly gripping’ Simon Sebag Montefiore, author of The World: A Family History of Humanity

‘Truly beautiful and melodic . . . a joy to read’ Hallie Rubenhold, author of The Five and Story of a Murder

‘Thrilling . . . essential reading for our times’ The Times, Book of the Week
 

An astonishing true story of splendour, scandal and tragedy in Golden Age Paris.

In 1881, Pierre-Auguste Renoir painted two young sisters from a Jewish banking dynasty at their home in Paris’s grand 8th arrondissement. Pink and Blue, a portrait of Elisabeth and Alice Cahen d’Anvers, captures a fleeting moment of innocence and beauty, and today it is one of Renoir’s most celebrated works. His portrait evokes the glamour of the Belle Époque: days at the races, nights at the opera, sun-soaked chateaux, brilliant salons filled with art, music and conversation. Paris at its most dazzling.

Yet beneath the glittering surface was a surging current of resentment. Renoir’s Impressionist masterpiece, radiant with light and colour, hides both a family secret and the tensions of an era poised for rupture. The same society that was illuminated by progress and culture was cast into shadow by division, prejudice and rising antisemitism. The Cahen d’Anvers, prominent patrons of this Golden Age, would come to embody both its glory and its tragedy.

In The Renoir Girls, Catherine Ostler paints a vivid and immersive portrait of intimate individual lives against the vast sweep of a changing Europe. Drawing on letters, diaries and exclusive new research, Ostler uncovers revelatory truths about a family at the heart of modern Europe’s struggles. From the aftermath of the Franco-Prussian War to the Dreyfus Affair and the devastation of two world wars, this is a powerful story of love, courage and identity in conflict with the forces of history.

The reign of Queen Elizabeth I ushered in an unprecedented age of exploration and discovery. Over 500 years that saw  ‘the greatest expansion of ideas and knowledge the world has ever seen’, a small island nation, for centuries a cultural backwater, asserted itself as a world power. 

Breathtaking in scope, embracing literature, science, art, religion, philosophy and politics, The British Imagination brings to life those centuries between Elizabeth I and II, and asks the provocative question - are we still living in a British 'metaphysical empire'?

From the acclaimed author of The German Genius and The French Mind, this is a lively and deeply researched history of the most influential personalities and ideas that made modern Britain. 

‘Intriguing insights about the contemporary Anglosphere . . . nuanced and appreciative’ Financial Times

‘Peter Watson has form when it comes to probing a nation’s psyche . . . Ambitious and stimulating’ Country Life
 
 

When Eva’s filmstar sister Katrina dies, she leaves California and returns to Trelowarth, Cornwall, where they spent their childhood summers, to scatter Katrina’s ashes and in doing so return her to the place where she belongs.

But Eva must also confront the ghosts from her own past, as well as those from a time long before her own. For the house where she so often stayed as a child is home not only to her old friends the Halletts, but also to the people who had lived there in the eighteenth century. When Eva finally accepts that she is able to slip between centuries and see and talk to the inhabitants from hundreds of years ago, she soon finds herself falling for Daniel Butler, a man who lived – and died – long before she herself was born.

Eva begins to question her place in the present, and in laying her sister to rest, comes to realise that she too must decide where she really belongs, choosing between the life she knows and the past she feels so drawn towards.

Praise for Susanna Kearsley:  

‘I’ve loved every one of Susanna’s books! She has bedrock research and a butterfly’s delicate touch with characters – historical fiction that pulls you in and won’t let go!’ Diana Gabaldon  

‘Kearsley has a poetic sensibility and a sense of mystery; she could write the modern Rebecca‘ The Bookseller  

‘Evocative and romantic’ Nicola Cornick 

‘Sometimes an author catches lightning in a bottle, and Susanna Kearsley does just that’ 
New York Journal of Books 

‘A deeply engaging and compelling historical novel… Susanna Kearsley has written a marvellous book’ Bernard Cornwell 

‘One of Canada’s best historical fiction writers’ The Globe and Mail 

‘Kearsley is nothing less than a magician weaving together the past and the present… utterly unputdownable’ M J Rose 

‘A master storyteller’ Leslie Howard 

Rory McIlroy contains multitudes. He can overwhelm a golf course with his transcendent talent and then, at the next tournament, look utterly lost. McIlroy is golf’s most eloquent ambassador and a trash-talking troll, sometimes in the same press conference. The child of a working-class family from a small town in a war-torn homeland now commutes to work in his own private jet and counts billionaires as confidants. A dozen years ago, McIlroy asked Alan Shipnuck a question about the player he had modeled himself after, Tiger Woods: ‘What’s he really like?’ As McIlroy enters the last act of his highly eventful career, this book is a chance to redirect that old question and try to understand a man of deep complexity and contradictions.

McIlroy’s victory at the 2025 Masters packed such an emotional punch because he is golf’s most vulnerable superstar. Across two decades as a pro he has been the anti-Tiger, letting fans into his heart and into his world. When McIlroy collapsed onto the final green at Augusta National, having at last completed the career Grand Slam, golf fans cried along with him because so many saw themselves in his struggles.

But there is much that the public does not know about McIlroy. With reporting chops honed across thirty years on the golf beat, Shipnuck traces McIlroy’s evolution from a young phenom in Northern Ireland to a game-changing force on and off the golf course. Shipnuck has shadowed McIlroy throughout his career, and he brings to life all the heartbreaks and triumphs with thrilling immediacy and unparalleled access. Tabloid romance, bitter business disputes, divisive politicking – it is all part of this portrait of a man in full.

Shipnuck has long been known as the most fearless writer on the golf beat, and he goes deep into McIlroy’s personal history at a time when the spotlight on Rory has never been brighter. 
 

HIGHLY COMMENDED FOR THE 2025 WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR NATURE WRITING  

SHORTLISTED FOR THE RICHARD JEFFERIES AWARD

Paul Lamb is a hedgelayer. He lives in his wagon and works to the rhythm of the seasons, a way of life that has almost vanished. From the end of summer until the birds nest in the spring, he travels the south-west corner of England, maintaining the ancient boundaries of our nation.

As traditional management techniques are lost to modernisation, hedgerows and the wildlife they support have declined dramatically. Paul has devoted decades to saving and rejuvenating this important but often forgotten part of Britian’s countryside.

Of Thorn & Briar  is Paul’s spellbinding account of living in partnership with the land, practising his craft with skill and preserving our heritage for future generations. Once you’ve read it, you will never look at the humble hedgerow in the same way again.

‘[A] beguiling book . . . this spare but elegant account is an unexpected delight, and as soothing as a walk down a tree-dappled lane at sunset’ Daily Mail  

‘Gentle,  evocative  and compelling’ Patrick  Barkham,  The Oldie  

‘This is a delightful book and one that deserves to enter the pantheon of distinguished Nature writing’ Country Life  
 

The compelling new novel about power, money and lies from the author of Anatomy of a Scandal.

‘A timely and compelling study of family guilt. Sarah Vaughan’s finest novel yet’ MICK HERRON  

‘Wholly absorbing and utterly addictive?One of my favourite books of the year’ ANDREA MARA  

‘This is talented Vaughan’s sixth novel and cements her place as one of our finest thriller writers’ DAILY MAIL

‘The gap between public image and private life is the theme of this clever novel?Intriguing’ THE TIMES

‘From the author of international bestseller Anatomy of a Scandal comes a gripping read about a much-loved storyteller whose perfect life starts to unravel when family secrets finally come to life’ MY WEEKLY  

‘Packed with twists and oozing with menace, this sharp-edged tale is a taut triumph’ CRIME MONTHLY

‘A flawlessly constructed thriller, perfectly paced and filled with smart reveals!’ LUCY CLARKE, The Castaways

‘A rich, intoxicating brew, I loved it’ LOUISE CANDLISH, Our House

‘The ultimate literary thriller!’ VERONICA HENRY, The Beach Hut

‘I was transported to the novel’s Cornish clifftop setting and was totally drawn into the mystery and the dysfunctional Kingman family from the very first page’ JULIET STEVENSON

A  lavish 70th birthday party.  A  body found on  a  storm-lashed beach.  And  a  secret that someone  is dying  to tell…  

Famed children’s  author Dame Eleanor Kingman has summoned her family  and friends to her exquisite manor house on the cliffs. They’re celebrating her birthday -  and her latest number one bestseller  in her series of books based on  a  mother fox  and her cubs.

But the night before the party, Eleanor receives  an email:  an email that threatens to expose the lie she’s kept up  for  over half  a  century.

Someone knows her secret.  Is  it her estranged literary  agent?  Is  it her ex-husband, to whom she no longer speaks?  Is  it the nanny she fired  all those years  ago, who  always did  have  a  knack  for  storytelling? Or  is  it one of her three daughters,  all of whom  have  a  stake  in the publishing empire she has built…

With  a  TV  crew  arriving to film  a  documentary of her life, Eleanor needs to find out who sent the email -  and preserve her multimillion-pound career.

But when push comes to shove,  and  it’s time to tell the truth -  will  anyone  actually believe her?

‘Thoroughly encapsulates the current state of the hurt business’ Telegraph, Best Books of 2025  

For fifty years Donald McRae has followed boxing. As criminality and corruption spread, his love for the sport dimmed. In 2018, grieving his sister’s death and his parents’ illness, he turned back to boxing – just as Tyson Fury’s improbable resurrection proved the ring could still offer redemption.

McRae takes us close to champions including Fury, Canelo Álvarez, Katie Taylor and Oleksandr Usyk. He doesn’t shy away from exploring huge themes – doping, state repression, war – and he doesn’t flinch from recording the thudding hits or the heartbreak a fighter feels in defeat. And in telling the devastating story of Patrick Day, he confronts death in the ring.

The Last Bell is McRae’s most personal and unflinching book, a clear-eyed reckoning with life and the sport he can’t let go.

‘Exhilarating and terrifying’ Herald  

‘A deeply satisfying read – gripping plot, loveable characters, and sumptuous locations, it draws you in and holds your attention until the last word. I loved it.’ SANTA MONTEFIORE

‘An intriguing and heart-warming story. I couldn’t put it down.’ BARBARA ERSKINE

‘I loved it. I was completely immersed in the story and the setting. So clever and interesting and beautifully written’  ELIZABETH BUCHAN

‘Beautifully written, warm and intelligent’ TRACY REES

‘A fascinating story – strong characters, an intriguing world, a gorgeous setting and an uplifting ending. Perfect! It reminded me of Rosamund Pilcher, the kind of read you get truly lost in.’ VERONICA HENRY

‘An engrossing read, with a wide and varied cast of characters who leap off the page. A wonderful page-turner, I loved it.’  JANE JOHNSON

Uncovering secrets that span generations, Rachel Hore delivers intriguing, involving and emotive narrative reading group fiction like few other writers can.

Nancy Foster has harboured a devastating secret that shattered her professional and personal life.   On meeting her, journalist Stef Lansdown realizes that she has the power to restore Nancy’s reputation and to heal the wounds, if only Nancy will trust her. But someone else wants to get to the bottom of the story first, someone who doesn’t want it to be told.  

Set in the beautiful environs of the Norfolk Broads in 2010, and in London in the ’40s and ’50s, when life for career-driven women was so different, The Secrets of Dragonfly Lodge is Sunday Times multi-million copy bestselling author Rachel Hore’s utterly compelling new novel, interweaving the past and the present.  

Featuring a wealth of unpublished material, Andrew Wilson’s biography of Marilyn Monroe presents the actress in a startling new light.  

Born Norma Jeane Mortenson, she had an uncertain and unforgiving upbringing. She grew up in Los Angeles and would dream about Hollywood, believing that acting would be her one-way ticket to happiness. Her dream was so powerful that she transformed herself into the ultimate goddess of the silver screen, and her image has been branded into the collective consciousness. Men lusted after her, and women wanted to be her. All her life, she just wanted to be loved.  

Told through 100 captivating snapshots, we are thrown into the  glamorous but dangerous world  of old Hollywood. We see a young Marilyn navigating  the highs and lows of the studio system  as she attempts to free herself from the constraints of Twentieth Century-Fox.  We also go behind the scenes of her marriages to teenage sweetheart Jim Dougherty, baseball star Joe DiMaggio and famous playwright Arthur Miller. We hear the voices of friends, lovers – and enemies.  

We hear of the friendships she formed with poets, philosophers, playwrights and political activists, and the years spent training with Lee Strasberg at the  Actors Studio.

In the concluding chapters, Andrew Wilson unpicks what happened on the night  Marilyn died after a suspected drug overdose. Were the Kennedys involved, or was she just let down by those closest to her?  

I Wanna Be Loved By You is a revealing and nuanced portrait of the life, death and afterlife of an icon who still fascinates us today.