Sceptre imprint: 20 books

by James Hamilton
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2014

The definitive biography of Turner and a major source of inspiration for the acclaimed film Mr Turner, directed by Mike Leigh. 'With splendid clarity and shrewd humour, James Hamilton evokes the visceral world of a great artist and a fascinating character.' MIKE LEIGH J.M.W Turner exhibited...

Crash Bang Wallop

The Inside Story of London’s Big Bang and a Financial Revolution that Changed the World

by Iain Martin
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2016

Published to mark the 30th anniversary of the financial revolution known as 'Big Bang', Crash Bang Wallop will tell the gripping story of how the changes introduced in the 1980s in the City of London transformed our world. Attitudes to money and the way we measure value and status were completely...
by Carys Bray, Rowan Hisayo Buchanan, Bernardine Evaristo
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016

The perfect alternative Valentine's gift Startlingly original stories S Magazine Together they assert that love is more heart-breaking and transforming that the word necessarily conveys. Observer Love is not a singular concept. In this collection, seven award-winning authors...
by Anna Smaill
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2015

WINNER OF THE 2016 WORLD FANTASY AWARD FOR BEST NOVEL LONGLISTED FOR THE 2015 MAN BOOKER PRIZE An Elle Book of the Year An Independent Book of the Year One to Watch Independent on Sunday A Bookseller Best Debut of 2015 One to Watch 2015 Huffington Post An...

Deeds Not Words

The Story of Women's Rights - Then and Now

by Helen Pankhurst
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018

'An uplifting record of progress and strength... You'll lay the book down feeling not only informed, but galvanised to take action yourself.' Independent 'An incredible book . . . with the potential to change women's lives.' Sandi Toksvig Why is it taking so long? Despite huge progress...
by Kopano Matlwa
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2017

A powerful and timely novel from 'South Africa's Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie' (Bookseller) . **'Heart-wrenching'**Grazia . With urgency and tenderness Evening Primrose explores issues of race, gender and the medical profession through the eyes of a junior doctor. When Masechaba finally...

Thistle Versus Rose

700 Years of Winding Up the English

by Susan Morrison
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2014

'Ask a Scotsman for directions and he'll tell you which way to go. Ask an Englishman and he'll try to sell you a map.' Anon * It's 700 years since the Scots thrashed the English at Bannockburn. Has there ever been a better opportunity to celebrate seven centuries of winding up the English? Exploring...
by Rod Judkins
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2017

FUTURE-PROOFING FOR THINKERS. 'What skills and abilities will a student need to prosper in five, ten, or fifteen years' time?' In a world of change, where skills become out of date quickly, it is ideas that last. We all need to be prepared for a world that is fluid, global and...
by Clare Morrall
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2016

In a world prone to violent flooding, Britain, ravaged 20 years earlier by a deadly virus, has been largely cut off from the rest of the world. Survivors are few and far between, most of them infertile. Children, the only hope for the future, are a rare commodity. For 22-year-old Roza Polanski,...
by Jake Arnott
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017

Newgate Gaol, 1726. An anonymous writer sets down the words of Edgworth Bess as she confides the adventures and misfortunes that led her all too soon to the judgement of London: Cruelly deceived, Bess is cast out onto the streets of the wicked city - and by nightfall her ruin is already certain....
by Jill Dawson
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2009

A young couple abandon the urban jungle of London's East End for a remote, mountainous corner of Washington State. Chosen by Mick, who is half-American, the place seems as alien as the moon to Rita. But she soon adjusts to raising their small daughter, Frances, in a broken-down cabin without electricity...
by Jill Dawson
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2011

A ten-year-old girl vanishes without trace from a Fenland village, her body never found. Thirty years on, she comes sharply back to life in the mind's eye of her childhood friend, Tina Humber, who has done her best to put the past behind her. But now, as Tina returns home for a family wedding, she...

The Brittle Star

An epic story of the American West

by Davina Langdale
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2017

A DAILY MAIL STARS BOOK OF THE YEAR A FOYLES BEST BOOK OF 2017 'Langdale is excellent . . . The Brittle Star is a great beginning to what I hope is a long and productive career**'** Guardian If a man beats you, you never let your anger show, never at the time. You wait, until he least...
by Jenn Ashworth
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2013

It's Friday in the Leeke household, but this is no ordinary Friday: the Leekes are Lancastrian Mormons and tonight they will be welcoming back their son Gary from his two-year mission in Utah. His mother, Pauline, wants his homecoming to be perfect. Unfortunately, no one else seems to be following...
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