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Tense and heartbreaking to its last page, 'The Cellist of Sarajevo' shows how life under seige creates impossible moral choices. When the everyday act of crossing the street can risk lives, the human spirit is revealed in all its fortitude - and frailty.

Set in 1776, against the backdrop of the American struggle for independence, this novel is also an adventure about one girl's struggle for freedom in a society in which she is considered someone else's property.

A convicted murderer and a woman, shunned for her ugliness, meet by chance on a bus. Slowly, these two misfits are drawn together. Stan, on the run from an ex-con, asks Elsie for help. They go to stay in her uncle's seaside cottage in Dorset. When Stan's pursuer closes in, things take a surprisin...

Picking up where 'The Bridges of Constantine' ended, Mosteghanemi's second novel begins in war-torn Algeria in the 1990s. Trapped in a loveless marriage to a high-ranking military man, a novelist decides to lose herself in her writing. But in an unexpected twist, what she writes begins to take on...

Everybody believes that Charlotte Lucas has no prospects. She is unmarried, plain, poor, and reaching a dangerous age. When she stuns the neighbourhood by accepting the proposal of buffoonish clergyman Mr Collins, her best friend Lizzy Bennet is appalled by her decision. Yet this is the only way ...

This is a fast and funny look at the pressures facing young girls to conform to fashion - and how they can be avoided - told in a gripping witty style from award winning author Anne Fine.

Cutting right to the quick of the extremity of life as a musician, 'Checker and the Derailleurs' is an examination of the passion, the jealousy and the friendship that occurs on and off stage for the musicians that are trying to break through.

In this concluding volume in the 'Noughts and Crosses' trilogy Rose, growing into young adulthood, discovers the truth about her mixed parentage. Determined to know more about her father and honour both sides of her heritage, she finds herself drawn inexorably into greater and greater danger.

A memorable coming of age story exploring a hidden side of the home front during World War II, in which a Wisconsin farm community invites Nazi POWs to work the local orchards - with consequences no one could have imagined.

For Mattie Willit, caught in a thunderstorm running away from her bullying stepfather, rescue comes in the form of Jacob Kemble, a widowed farmer living with his two young children. As Jacob nurses Mattie back to health, the two come to know and love each other. Meanwhile, wealthy and elderly Mis...