Forbidden romance is the unique yearning for someone you can't have. Here are our top picks to ease you into the world of ...

Academic and author Professor Susan Sellers introduces authors Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West, and the wider ...

David Baldacci has become one of the world’s favourite thriller writers, with his first novel Absolute Power, being adapted into the film of the same name starring and directed by Clint Eastwood. He ...

Inspired by his experiences as a reporter during the Spanish Civil War, For Whom the Bell Tolls tells the story of Robert Jordan, an American volunteer in the International Brigades fighting to defend ...

More than one hundred years have passed since the hostilities of the First World War ceased and the guns fell silent after four long years of devastating conflict. Literature, whether written by those ...

Everything you need to know about the lost vessel of Antarctic explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton and Mensun Bound's book about ...

Whether you’re reading to your child, or they’re learning to read by themselves, little ones will want to return to these picture books for kids again and again. Full of loveable characters, playful ...

What are first edition books? And how can you tell if a book is a first edition? We teamed up with our colleagues at the Macmillan Archives to help answer these questions. If you're a fan of ...

Set on the RMS Lusitania's final journey in 1915, Patrick Gallagher, a government civil servant, escorts a British diplomat back to England. But after a passenger, secluded in a locked cabin, is ...

To eight-year-old Bela, her family is her world. There’s Mommy, Daddy and Grandma Ruth. But there is also Other Mommy, a malevolent entity who asks her every day: ‘Can I go inside your heart?’ When ...

In a rare window into some of her life’s pivotal moments, Melinda French Gates draws from previously untold stories to offer a new perspective on encountering transitions. “You don’t get to be my age ...