A place that is unreachable from the Scottish mainland for twelve hours each day. Once the hideaway of Vanessa, a famous artist whose notoriously unfaithful husband disappeared twenty years ago. Now ...

It’s getting colder outside, have you noticed? Whether you’re the type who spends summer grumbling about being sticky, or someone who dreads the moment the clocks go back, the longer nights and cooler ...

Halloween and Christmas collide in the sweetest, sexiest crossover romcom of the year! Two royal princes, one fake competition – but will it be trick…or treat? Coal might be the Prince of Christmas ...

In April this year, Sophie Kinsella shared that she has been receiving treatment for an aggressive form of brain cancer, prompting an outpouring of love and support from her readers. Kinsella’s new ...

Whether your favourite is Elphaba or Glinda, both of these iconic witches have plenty of life lessons to share. This is a book of two halves - just as there are two sides to every story - that invites ...

Joining us in our book-filled studio this week is broadcaster and author Zeinab Badawi, who shares her journey chronicling Africa's spectacular history through the voices of African historians, ...

In designing the cover for Paper Boat, Margaret Atwood's collection of poems that span a lifetime, Vintage Creative Director Suzanne Dean wanted to marry the boat of the title with the rough seas of ...

From the UK’s ‘statistical national treasure’, a clever and data-driven guide to how we can live with risk and uncertainty We live in a world where uncertainty is inevitable. How should we deal with ...

1940s Colorado: Teenage Victoria Nash is the only woman in a family of troubled men. When she meets Wilson Moon, a young drifter with a mysterious past, on a street corner, their connection is ...

Anne Tyler invites you to the wedding of the year in Three Days in June. In this exclusive extract, we meet Gail the day before her daughter’s wedding and things are not going well. First thing, she ...

One woman strives for perfection - it's an old story. This is Simone de Beauvoir's gripping version. Laurence lives what appears to be an ideal existence. Her life features all the trappings of 1960s ...