Orion Publishing Group

BEFORE A man running along a remote clifftop path on an icy-cold February morning. A woman standing on the cliff's edge. A red scarf on the ground between them. AFTER The man is alone on the cliff - adrenaline pumping through his veins. The woman is on the beach below - dead. The red scarf is also on the beach - beautifully (and impossibly) wrapped around the woman's broken neck. WHAT HAPPENED? Two lives colliding by chance? Or a revenge decades in the making?

In an idyllic resort on the island of La Reunion, Liane Bellion and her husband Martial are enjoying the perfect moment. But soon Liane will have disappeared from the hotel, and Martial will have fled with their six-year-old daughter. With Martial as prime suspect, helicopters scan the island, tensions break out, and corpses are found. Is he really his wife's killer? And if he isn't, why is he acting so guilty?

THE OTHER MOTHER is a blistering new novel full of twists and turns from the bestselling author of AFTER THE CRASH.

Set in Dublin, a city built on burial pits, We Were Young is a dazzlingly clever, deeply enjoyable novel from a Sunday Times Short Story Award-Winning author.

I have taken apart every panel of this, like an ornamental fan. But we stayed in the cottage for three weeks only, just three weeks, because it was cut short you see - cut short after just three weeks, when I'd left my entire life behind.

Inspired by the influential text WHAT IS HISTORY? authored by Helen Carr's great-grandfather, E.H. Carr, and published on the 60th anniversary of that book, this is a groundbreaking new collection addressing the burning issue of how we interpret history today. What stories are told, and by whom, who should be celebrated, and what rewritten, are questions that have been asked recently not just within the history world, but by all of us. Featuring a diverse mix of writers, both bestselling names and emerging voices, this is the history book we need NOW.

1957, south-east suburbs of London. Jean Swinney is a feature writer on a local paper, disappointed in love and - on the brink of forty - living a limited existence with her truculent mother: a small life from which there is no likelihood of escape. When a young Swiss woman, Gretchen Tilbury, contacts the paper to claim that her daughter is the result of a virgin birth, it is down to Jean to discover whether she is a miracle or a fraud.

'Glamorous and nostalgic and very sexy... One of those books that stays with you' - Paula Hawkins

The Waiting Game explores the daily lives of ladies-in-waiting, revealing the secrets of recruitment, costume, what they ate, where (and with whom) they slept.

THE HISTORY MAKERS is an epic exploration of who writes about the past and how the biases of certain storytellers - whether Julius Caesar, William Shakespeare or Simon Schama -continue to influence our ideas about history (and about who we are) today.

These are Dame Joan Collins' 'uncensored diaries'. Often outrageous, the entries were almost written entirely in real time. Most were done within ten hours of the events Joan describes, and many are hilarious.