Two months before Hitler’s rise to power, a beautiful young woman is found naked and near death in the woods outside Berlin.  When she finally wakes from her coma, she can remember nothing, not even her name.  The only clue to her identity is a handbill found nearby, advertising a public lecture by Albert Einstein: ‘On The Present State of Quantum Theory’.

Psychiatrist Martin Kirsch takes the case, little suspecting that this will be his last.  As he searches for the truth about ‘the Einstein Girl’, professional fascination turns to reckless love.  His investigations lead him to a remote corner of Serbia via a psychiatric hospital in Zurich.  There, the inheritor of Einstein’s genius – his youngest son, Eduard – is writing a book that will destroy his illustrious father and, in the process, change the world.

Sometimes the lessons you learn unexpectedly are the ones that teach you the most.

Josie arrives in Paris in the hope of healing a broken heart.

Riley, a lonely housewife, is struggling to feel connected to her husband, and new country.

Jeremy, a loyal, neglected husband of a famous actress, has accompanied his wife as she films on location, yet he feels increasingly isolated from her world.

As they meander along the grand boulevards and intimate winding Parisian streets with their French tutors – Josie with Nico, a sensitive poet, Riley with Philippe, a shameless flirt, and Jeremy with the beautiful Chantal – each succumbs to unexpected passion and unpredictable adventures.

When long-buried secrets come to bear and relationships are challenged – can their lives ever be the same again?

A legendary ruin. An ancient mystery. Will unveiling the past transform the future?

San Francisco, 2007. Madeline Moretti is grieving for her fiancé. Nothing brings her joy any more, and Maddie’s grandmother, a fiery Italian, sends her to Tuscany to heal. Here, Maddie is immersed in the mystery of a ruined villa. Destroyed centuries ago in a legendary storm on the Eve of St Agnes, it has been known ever since as the Casa al Vento – the House of the Wind.

Tuscany, 1347. Mia hasn’t spoken since her mother’s death, and lives in silence with her beloved aunt. One dark night, a couple seek refuge in their villa. Used to welcoming passing pilgrims, Mia is entranced by the young bride’s radiance and compassion, but mystified by her reluctance to reveal even her name. Where has she come from, and why must her presence be a secret?

Centuries apart, each searching for a way to step into her future, Mia and Maddie will be haunted by the myth of the woman who walked unscathed from the ruins of the House of the Wind.

It was less an interview than an amiable conversation over a walk in the park.  George Smiley had been sent to speak to a high-ranking civil servant after an anonymous tip-off that he was a security risk.  It was a formality – and the two men liked each other.  Why then did it apparently drive the poor man to despair?  And why was he found dead the next day, the victim of an apparent suicide?

Call For The Dead launched John le Carre’s unparalleled career as a novelist, and introduces one of fiction’s most famous spies – George Smiley, who is both brilliant and unremarkable.

Gilbert Markham is deeply intrigued by Helen Graham, a beautiful and secretive young woman who has moved into nearby Wildfell Hall with her young son. He is quick to offer Helen his friendship, but when her reclusive behavior becomes the subject of local gossip and speculation, Gilbert begins to wonder whether his trust in her has been misplaced. It is only when she allows Gilbert to read her diary that the truth is revealed and the shocking details of the disastrous marriage she has left behind emerge…

Told with great immediacy, combined with wit and irony, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is a powerfully involving read.

For the first time in six years, Jordan returns from California to Utah, to visit his mother – in jail.  As a young boy he was expelled from his family’s secretive polygamous Mormon sect.  Now his father has been found shot dead in front of his computer, and one of his many wives – Jordan’s mother – is accused of the crime.

Over a century earlier, Ann Eliza Young, nineteenth wife of Brigham Young, second Prophet of the Mormon Church, tells the sensational story of how she battled for her freedom from her powerful husband, to lead a crusade to end polygamy in the United States.  Bold, shocking and gripping, The 19th Wife expertly weaves together these two narratives in an enthralling epic of love, family, murder and faith.

It is 1948, and England is recovering from a war.  But at 21 Nevern Street, London, the conflict has only just begun.

Queenie Bligh’s neighbours do not approve when she agrees to take in Jamaican lodgers, but with her husband Bernard not back from the war, what else can she do?

Gilbert Joseph was one of the several thousand Jamaican men who joined the RAF to fight against Hitler.  Returning to England as a civilian, he find himself treated very differently.  Gilbert’s wife Hortense, too, had longed to leave Jamaica and start a better life in England.  But when she joins him she is shocked to find London shabby, decrepit, and far from the city of her dreams.  Even Gilbert is not the man she thought he was.

Small Island explores a point in England’s past when the country began to change.  In this delicately wrought and profoundly moving novel, Andrea Levy handles the weighty themes of empire, prejudice, war and love, with a superb lightness of touch and generosity of spirit.