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The Island: The million-copy Number One bestseller 'A moving and absorbing holiday read'

By Victoria Hislop

The End Of The Affair (Vintage Classics)

By Edmond Bonnal de Ganges, Greene, Graham, Ali, Monica

The Song of Peterloo: heartbreaking historical tale of courage in the face of tragedy

By O'Brien, Carolyn

Fingersmith: A BBC 2 Between the Covers Book Club Pick – Booker Prize Shortlisted

By Sarah Waters, Waters, Sarah

Mist Over The Mersey: An absolutely engrossing saga of romance, friendship and war

By Andrews, Lyn

Bournville: From the bestselling author of Middle England

By Coe, Jonathan

A Different Drummer: the extraordinary rediscovered classic

By Kelley, William Melvin

The Old Man and the Sea: Ernest Hemingway

By Hemingway, Ernest

Death Wears a Mask (Amory Ames): A stylishly evocative historical whodunnit

By Ashley Weaver

The Gangster: Isaac Bell #9

By Cussler, Clive, Scott, Justin

Love or Duty: An absorbing saga of heartache and family in 1920s Liverpool

By Rosie Harris

Ancient Evenings

By Mailer, Norman

The House Of Sight And Shadow

By Griffin, Nicholas

On the Company's Service (Coronet Books)

By Meacham, Ellis K.

As Time Goes By

By Allbeury, Ted

Llangollen Ladies, The

By Gordon, Mary

The Ladies of Missalonghi

By McCullough, COLEEN., Colleen

Barchester Towers (Penguin Classics)

By Trollope, Anthony, Gilmour, Robin, Galbraith, John Kenneth, Anthony Trollope, Robin Gilmour, John Kenneth Galbraith

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories (Collins Classics)

By Irving, Washington

Rotherweird: Rotherweird Book I

By Caldecott, Andrew, Laika, Sasha

My Sister the Moon

By Harrison, Sue

Away with the Penguins: The heartwarming and uplifting Richard & Judy Book Club 2020 pick

By Prior, Hazel

The Return

By Victoria Hislop

Assassins 39's Creed Renaissance

By Bowden, Oliver, Oliver Bowden

Lean Fall Stand

By Jon McGregor

A Childhood

By Jona Oberski, R. Manheim

The Petticoat Men

By Barbara Ewing

Catch-22: As recommended on BBC2's Between the Covers

By Joseph Heller, Howard Jacobson

I Couldn't Love You More

By Esther Freud

Stones from the River

By Ursula Hegi