This riveting book explains why the Norman Conquest was the single most important event in English history. Assessing the original evidence at every turn, Marc Morris goes beyond the familiar outline to explain why England was at once so powerful and yet so vulnerable to William the Conqueror's attack.

Beautifully written, suspenseful coming-of-age story... I loved it.' The Daily Mail

'Two BFFs are accused of murder in this novel that feels like true crime.' ? Cosmopolitan

?A haunting and dazzling page-turner.' - Laura Hankin

'It's a compulsive thriller, and you won't want to put down Berman's second book.'? Shondaland

'Slices to the core of a fraught friendship on the brink of disaster.' ? PopSugar

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Set in Peru during the 1950s, Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter is the story of an 18 year old student who falls for a 32 year old divorcee. At the same time that the author meets his "Aunt Julia", the radio station, which had been buying scripts by weight from Cuba, hires a Bolivian scriptwriter named Pedro Camacho to write the serials.

Winner of the Booker Prize in 2013: an extraordinary, epic novel, charting the promise, deceit and desperation of the mid-19th century gold rush, from one of the most talented novelists of our time.

From the daily dance of the herons at Albert Cuyp Market to the sisterly myth behind the iconic Skinny Bridge, how well do you know the Dutch capital?

Welcome Home Amsterdam is a unique collection of short stories celebrating the city – its past, its present and its people. Through interwoven fictional lives, the book offers a genuine feel of the real Amsterdam. Some of her most famous features are brought to life alongside everyday scenes of family and friendship, of cycling, fishing and s...

De 'Burggravin van Vergy' is een middeleeuwse verhaal uit de dertiende eeuw over hartstocht en verraad met een tragische afloop. De burggravin en een ridder hebben een geheime liefdesrelatie. Om elkaar te ontmoeten gebruikt de burggravin een hondje als teken. De hertogin van Bourgondië wordt verliefd op de ridder en als hij haar afwijst, beschuldigt ze hem ten onrechte bij haar man, de hertog. De ridder wordt gedwongen het geheim van zijn liefde te onthullen aan de hertog, die belooft te zwi...