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The Ladie Upstairs

Introducing a bold and unflinching new voice in femgore horror fiction.

Queen Charlotte: Before the Bridgertons came the love story that changed the ton...

Go beyond the original Shondaland series on Netflix, Queen Charlotte, with this lushly romantic Bridgerton prequel novel written by New York Times bestselling authors Julia Quinn and Shonda Rhimes as the marriage of Queen Charlotte and King George of England leads to an unexpected love story and a union that transforms society. In 1761, on a sunny day in September, a King and Queen me

Butcher

From one of our most accomplished storytellers, an extraordinary and arresting novel about a women's asylum in the nineteenth century, and a terrifying doctor who wants to change the world.

Warrior: The epic story of Caratacus, warrior Briton and enemy of the Roman Empire…

*Now available as a full-length novel! Originally published in five ebook parts* The epic story of Caratacus: a barbarian king who led the tribes of Britannia against mighty Rome . . . AD 18, Britannia. The Roman Empire rules much of the known world. Beyond the northern frontier lies Britannia, where ceaseless feuding amongst the Celts leaves the island vulnerable to Rome's ambitions. Carat

The Warm Hands of Ghosts

World War One, and as shells fall in Northern France, a Canadian nurse searches for her brother believed dead in the trenches.

January 1918. Laura Iven has been discharged from her nurse duties and sent back to Halifax, Canada. Now home, she receives word of her brother's death on the fields of Passchendaele. Believing he is still alive, and determined to find him, Laur

The Foot on the Crown

It is said a legend is just a beautiful lie... In the second half of the first millennium, the legends say that London disappeared for over four hundred years. We know almost nothing about what happened during that time. But if we could shine a light on the city's ruined walls, we would be in for a shock. The Romans are long forgotten. It is now King Scarabold who rules what little remains of

The Continental Affair

With gorgeous prose, European glamour, and an expansive wanderlust, Christine Mangan's The Continental Affair is a fast-paced, Agatha Christie-esque caper packed full of romance and suspense.

The Knowing

Beautiful, intoxicating and full of suspense, The Knowing is a story of love and obsession, betrayal and retribution and how women survive and weaponize trauma.

The House of Seymour

Will his ambition be her destiny or her downfall?

Praise for Joanna Hickson:

'An intriguing tale, told with confidence' The Times 'Rich and warm' Sunday Express 'Bewitching' Woman & Home

In the shadow of Wolf Hall, can one woman claim her own destiny?

The Rebel Daughters

An epic historical love story of freedom, courage and passion

The Eights

'Entertaining and moving...I came to love these four women as though they were my sisters' TRACY CHEVALIER

'I ADORED it. What a fantastic read. My book of the year' JILL MANSELL

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They knew they were changing history.
They didn't know they would change each other.

Oxford, 1920. For the first time in its 1000-year history, t

Call Me Ishmaelle

Moby-Dick reimagined from the perspective of a cross-dressed female sailor

'Brilliantly written... ambitious, brave, strange' Philip Hoare
'One of the most valuable writers in the world' Deborah Levy


1843. Ishmaelle is born in a small village on the stormy Kent coast where she grows up swimming with dolphins. After her parents and infant sister di

The Antidote

'Karen Russell is one in a million' New York Times

From the Pulitzer shortlisted author, an astounding novel about magic, memory and land set America's Dust Bowl.

Visit The Antidote of Uz - a prairie witch who can keep your memories safe. Speak into her emerald-green earhorn, and your secrets, your shames, your private joys, will leave your mind

The Matchbox Girl

From the multi-award-winning author - a beautiful, stunningly ambitious novel telling the story of a young girl's battle for survival and search for the truth in occupied Vienna

The Frozen River

THE BESTSELLING SENSATION BASED ON A TRUE STORY OF COURAGEOUS MARTHA BALLARD

In the cold of night, she tends to the women.
In the light of day, she delivers them justice.

'Lawhon works storytelling magic with a real-life heroine' People Magazine

'The narrator of Ariel Lawhon's The Frozen River is an

The Knowing

Beautiful, intoxicating and full of suspense, The Knowing is a story of love and obsession, betrayal and retribution and how women survive and weaponize trauma.

The Life of Herod the Great

'The Life of Herod The Great - like Hurston herself - is a masterpiece, a miracle, and a marvel. In other words, treasure for the whole world' Tayari Jones, author of An American Marriage

Boleyn Traitor

Sister. Liar. Witness. Spy. Traitor?

Her secrets shaped a kingdom . Her loyalty was deadly.

Jane Boleyn watches from the shadows of the Tudor court. Where nothing is more powerful than a secret. And power rests on the edge of a tyrant king's sword.

She wears many masks - loving wife, devoted sister, and obedient spy. It's what a woman must do to survive

Forged in Rome

Ancient Rome, AD 37

A scribe in a noble household, all Cormac has ever known is a life of slavery. When his master suddenly relieves him of his post, along with a hundred other men and women, Cormac is furnished with documents to free him from bondage but given no means to survive.

Somewhere between slave and citizen, the freedom to live is the freedom to starve too

Blinding: The Left Wing

An enthralling, hallucinatory masterwork by one of Central Europe’s most celebrated novelists ‘We exist between the past and future like the vermiform body of a butterfly, in between its two wings’ Beneath the streets of communist Bucharest linger hidden passageways, lost to memory. Here, sprawling hospitals give way to travelling circuses and underground jazz clubs, and Cartarescu’s childhood