WORLD WAR ONE BOOK OF THE YEAR In a sweeping narrative, David Olusoga describes how Europe's Great War became the World's War - a multi-racial, multi-national struggle, fought in Africa and Asia as well as in Europe, which pulled in men and resources from across the globe. Throughout, he exposes the complex, shocking paraphernalia of the era's racial obsessions, which dictated which men would serve, how they would serve, and to what degree they would...

Andrew O'Hagan, multi-award-winning fiction writer, reporter and memoirist, presents a series of essays that explore what America means to the British. O'Hagan deals with a wide range of subjects, including Margaret Thatcher, Marilyn Monroe, the Beatles, Hurricane Katrina, and the war in Iraq.

In 1905 a young kitchen maid leaves Fairley Hall. Emma Harte is sixteen, single and pregnant. By 1968 she is one of the richest women in the world, ruler of a business empire stretching from Yorkshire to the glittering cities of America and the rugged vastness of Australia. But what is the price she has paid? A Woman of Substance is as impossible to put down as it is to forget. This multi-million copy bestseller is truly a novel of our times.

I know many things about Larissa. I know what she eats, which must-have brands she applies to her face, and the price of each carefully selected ?piece? in her multi-million-pound home in Belgravia. Because Ris, as she is known to her many followers, likes to share. And now I?m here, in her home, watching her every move. Entrusted with her secrets and running her diary from the bijou basement flat, I?m on hand to fulfil Ris? every need. Her right-hand...

Three charming stories about a young girl who lives in a flat in Lagos with her sister, Moji, who is very clever; her brother, Dapo, who is very fast; and Grandmummy, who is very bossy. Too Small Tola is just the right size to fit under the bed and rescue Grandmummy's most prized possession when it goes missing. Her abilities in maths prove to be very helpful when Grandmummy becomes ill. In the title story, though Grandmummy can't afford to buy Tola...

If you?ve never seen an Eddie Stobart truck, you?ve never driven down a British motorway. This is the extraordinary story of a multi-million pound business that spawned a middle-class motorway game. Of dynastic struggles that ended in a merchandising shop opposite Carlisle cathedral. A quintessentially British tale - written by the inimitable bestselling writer Hunter Davies, and with the full support of Eddie Stobart himself.

Mr Wonka might be a genius with chocolate, but Charlie and his family don't trust his flying skills one bit. Especially when the thing he's flying is a glass elevator and it is zooming out of control into the stratosphere.

From the multi-award winning author of The Bridge (BBC) and Marcella (Netflix, ITV) comes a blockbuster new thriller?A DEAD WOLFA DRUG DEAL GONE WRONGA LETHAL FEMALE ASSASSINHannah Wester, a detective in the remote northern Swedish town�of�Haparanda, finds herself on the precipice�of�chaos.When human remains are found in the stomach�of�a dead wolf, Hannah knows that this summer won?t be like any other.�The remains are soon linked to...

Bloody street battles, shocking levels of public corruption and cat-and-mouse chases across Highland hills: the story of illicit distilling and smuggling whisky in Scotland is as full of excitement and intrigue as the most outlandish work of fiction. The result of the most extensive research ever carried out into illicit distilling, this book dispels a number of firmly established assumptions about this highly significant yet widely misunderstood...

I fell in love with Violet and her grand-daughter Tilly and I know you will too? Irish Times bestseller Carmel HarringtonViolet North is wonderfully inconvenient. Abandoned by her family and lost in an imagined world of moors and adventure, her life changes in the space of just 37 words exchanged with a stranger at her front door.Decades later, Daniel Bearing has inherited his father's multi-million pound business, and is utterly lost. He has no idea...