Anna Karenina

Leo Tolstoy

Tolstoy married Sophia Andreevna Behrs, who was 16 years his junior on September 23, 1862. Her family and friends called her Sonya which is the Russian diminutive of Sofia. Tolstoy and Sophia had thirteen children, five of whom did not survive childhood. On the eve of their marriage, Tolstoy gave her hi...

The Outsiders

Gerald Seymour

Winnie Monks has never forgotten - or forgiven - the death of a young agent on her team at the hands of a former Russian Army Major turned gangster. Now, years later, she hears the Major is travelling to a villa on the Costa del Sol and she asks permission to send in a surveillance unit. They find an em...

GreenFeast: Spring, Summer

Nigel Slater

The first in a pair of fast, season-led vegetable books from beloved author and cook Nigel Slater. ‘Much of my weekday eating contains neither meat nor fish … It is simply the way my eating has grown to be over the last few years.' Greenfeast: spring, summer is a vibrant and joyous collection of the foo...

Black Shield Maiden

WILLOW and Jess Hendel

A feminist, multicultural reimagining of the Old Norse Sagas from the enormously talented duo Willow Smith and Jess Hendel. The Black Shield Maiden trilogy is a feminist, multicultural reimagining of the Heimskringla, the best known of the Old Norse king's sagas. It's both a bildungsroman and a revision...