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Jay Gatsby is the man who has everything. But one thing will always be out of his reach ...

Back in the early 1980s, Robert Jacklin doesn't want to move to the newly independent Zimbabwe with his parents, nor does he want to be shipped off to boarding school.

Based on a real-life divorce case from the 1860s, The Sealed Letter is the story of Vice-Admiral Henry Codrington, his unfaithful wife Helen, and their erstwhile friend Emily 'Fido' Faithfull, independent businesswoman and pillar of the women's movement.

In luminous, lyrical prose, Fletcher vividly evokes the haunting, wild landscape of the Scottish Highlands in this story ultimately concerned with the transformative power of nature, and the importance of kindness and hope.

This outstanding young adult novel tells the story of Henry VIII, from his earliest days as precocious young Prince Hal, right up until his death

Torn from her mother, eight-year-old Anna Sands is relocated with other children to a large Yorkshire estate that has been opened up to evacuees by Thomas and Elizabeth Ashton, an enigmatic childless couple.

Elizabeth Bowen combines social comedy and reportage, perception and vision in this 79-strong collection.

This is a fabulously atmospheric and beautifully written historical adventure and love story, set in 1665, at a time of religious intolerance and uncertainty.

Spirited young nurse Felix shakes off her restrictive family to follow her heart and her political convictions to Spain to support the Republican cause in the Spanish Civil War.

Bored and beautiful, Emma Bovary is frustrated by the banality of provincial life in 19th Century France. Her marriage to a mediocre doctor cannot match the glittering, passion-filled romances of the sentimental novels she devours.

On holiday in Wales, Richard encounters a bohemian family at the Wish House, and becomes involved with their teenage daughter Clio in this absorbing coming-of-age-novel.

Ausländer gives a fascinating insight into life in Berlin during WorldWar II – a perspective not frequently portrayed in young adult fiction.

Thomas Wainewright was an artist, poet and writer who exhibited at the Royal Academy and entertained some of the best-known figures of the day at his rooms on Great Marlborough Street.

The Tale of Raw Head and Bloody Bones is a compelling blend of science and imagination, myth and madness, philosophy and folklore that will fascinate those who read it.

Seventeen-year-old twins Alice and Jack work at the mansion of the Morland family - but when the First World War breaks out, their lives are changed completely.

Black Mamba Boy is a sumptuous and bittersweet journey book that starts in Aden in 1935 in war-torn Eritrea and Sudan, to Egypt, Palestine and to Britain.

From the outside, Emily's family lives the perfect, privileged white suburban lifestyle of late 1960s Johannesburg. Then one summer their very own gypsies come to stay...

Sally Gardner lives up to her reputation for delivering ambitious and highly imaginative writing for teenagers in this unusual and complex historical novel.

The future Elizabeth I has been imprisoned by her half-sister Queen Mary at the ruined, isolated palace of Woodstock, and 15-year-old Meg Lytton is sent to serve her.

The year is 1944 and France is occupied by Nazi troops. When Luc Belleville returns home to his sleepy village in France after some time away, 15-year-old Arianne is instantly drawn to him.

A stunning historical novel, The Book of Fires is the unforgettable story of Agnes Trussel; and love, fireworks and redemption.

Oskar Matzerath, inmate in a mental institution, narrates the extraordinary events of his life thus far.

As she sits in her Bloomsbury home, with her two birds for company, elderly Harriet Baxter sets out to relate the story of her acquaintance, nearly four decades previously, with Ned Gillespie, a talented artist who never achieved the fame she maintains he deserved. Back in 1888, the young, art-loving Harriet arrives in Glasgow at the time of the International Exhibition. After a chance encounter she befriends the Gillespie family and soon becomes a fixture in all of their lives. But when tragedy strikes - leading to a notorious criminal trial - the promise and certainties of this world all too rapidly disintegrate into mystery and deception...

Based around the British massacre of Indians at Amritsar in 1919, Rai’s seventh novel for young adults moves seamlessly through time, place, belief and genre.

The author of the prizewinning Deafening returns with a poignant and compelling novel in ten stories.

A deliciously old-fashioned story, which encompasses love, adventure and a host of memorable characters.

Platt's biography of Western Road, which runs from White City to the Hanger Lane gyratory, chronicles its construction in the 1920s through to its more recent partial demolition and dilapidated condition.

Jonathan Coe's warm and heartening look back at the 1970s and its fashions and tastes is a zesty comedy full of acute observations about growing up and being an awkward teenager at school.

The stories of three different characters are interwoven in this powerful novel exploring relationships, sexuality, life and death.

Beautiful young aristocrat Jenny is the closest friend of Mary, the young Queen of Scots. When she overhears a whispered plot against Mary she sets out to become a spy to keep her friend safe, little realising how much danger she will soon encounter.

What Daniel Swift does with this slim but fascinating debut book is to fuse a history of one part of the Second World War with a reclamation and a reevaluation of the the poetry it created.

A powerful story narrated by Death, about: a girl, an accordionist, some fanatical Germans, a Jewish fist fighter, and quite a lot of thievery

1598, Prague: Lukas is tempted into crime by the petty thieves he meets in the local tavern. He steals a precious watch from the Emperor and puts his own and his uncle’s life at risk.

Seeking escape from their lives, two teenagers are drawn to follow a charismatic young man who is leading a Children’s Crusade through France to the Holy Land.

Spring 1910, and the Averley family are returning to their ancestral home, the beautiful Somerton Court, after living a life of luxury in India. But it soon becomes clear that they have some scandalous secrets to hide...

This beautifully written coming-of-age tale juxtaposes the pain of first love with the suspense-laden atmosphere of film noir.

A 200-page survey of the history of the city, from Roman times to the present.

In this sequel to His Dark Endeavour, Victor discovers a means of travelling through a time portal to find his dead brother, Konrad.

A few days on a deserted island off the coast of Thailand sounds like paradise - but the lovely dream turns into a living nightmar, and soon three people are dead.

Tremain's exuberant tale of Robert Merivel, bumbling courtier to Charles II, who reluctantly leaves London but in the process achieves personal redemption.

Jamila Hashmi, Mumtaz Shirin, Fahmida Riaz and others use intricate narrative patterns, polemicism and lyricism in their stories about Pakistan's convoluted history.

Taking the pilgrimage about which Chaucer wrote his Canterbury Tales as a starting point, K M Grant has written a gentle tale centred on young pilgrim Belle.

This could have been a relentlessly miserable story. Grace is born in the mid-1940s into a family and a society that does not know how to care for her.

This is Patrick Leigh Fermor's spellbinding part-travelogue, part inspired evocation of a part of Greece's past.

100 short stories and extracts from novels by women - one for each century - form this anthology

Crossley-Holland's trilogy continues with Arthur leaving Caldicot and his childhood behind and taking up a position as squire to Lord Stephen.

Gemma Doyle struggles to deal with her strange supernatural powers in this first installment of Libba Bray's series set in Victorian England.

This romantic historical novel is based on the true story of astronomer Tycho Brahe

Ten irreverent stories rooted in the complexity of Jewish history and the customs of orthodox life.