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Why are human beings the only animals that can speak? And why does it matter?

If you’ve ever felt the shock of listening to a...

After many generations, it is now Harold who runs Ard Farm. Out on the fells, he feels his father's presence, and there is hope...

The Kibbutz of Metsudat Ram lies in the valley of Jordan, close to the border. Old and young, happy and discontented, the...

In this stunningly assured, immersive and vividly atmospheric first novel from the celebrated musician, a young woman comes...

A retired couple, Gerry and Stella Gilmore, fly to Amsterdam for a midwinter break. A holiday to refresh the senses, to see the...

On 11 March 2011, a massive earthquake sent a 120-foot-high tsunami smashing into the coast of north-east Japan. It was Japan’s...

Glasgow, 1957. It is a December night and William Watt is desperate. His family has been murdered and he needs to find out who...

'Warmly entertaining... an endearing account of the search for rare bees' Guardian

A hunt for the world's most elusive bees...

Caring deeply about our children is part of what makes us human. Yet the thing we call ‘parenting’ is a surprisingly new...

The London winter of 1947 is as cold as St Petersburg during the Revolution. Albertine, the wife of a British army officer often...

An epic story of peoples, cultures and adventures among the world's highest mountains: here Jesuit missionaries exchanged...

The first instalment in the thrilling new crime series from worldwide bestseller Arnaldur Indridason

The Past

In wartime...

The crime: Reykjavik, August 1941. When a travelling salesman is found murdered in a basement flat, the police initially suspect...

Shark Drunk is, in part, the tale of two men in a very small boat on the trail of a very big fish. It is also a story of...

What do you and an ancient philosopher have in common? It turns out much more than you might think…

Aristotle was an...

Food and travel writer Michael Booth and his family embark on an epic journey the length of Japan to explore its dazzling food...

The setting is a comedy club in a small Israeli town. An audience that has come expecting an evening of amusement instead sees a...

In the winter of 1954, in a construction camp in the remote Tasmanian highlands, when Sonja Buloh was three years old and her...

'The kind of book that changes readers for the better' Guardian

When a family tragedy means Mick is sent to the outback to...

This is the inside story of twelve years at the helm of Britain’s greatest theatre.

It is a story of lunatic failures and...

American academic Hannah and runaway Moroccan teenager Tariq have little in common, yet both find themselves haunted by the...

The epic new novel from the bestselling author of Birdsong

'Wistful, yearning and wise' Elizabeth Day

1914: Aspiring...

Two sisters quarrel over an inheritance and a new baby. A housekeeper caring for a helpless old man uncovers secrets from his...

A revelatory portrait of Napoleon written for our own time, exploring his love of nature and the gardens that gave his...

Charlie, a wealthy banker with an uneasy conscience, invites his troubled cousin Matthew to visit him and his wife in their...

Marie Colvin was glamorous, hard-drinking, braver than the boys, with a troubled and rackety personal life. She reported from the...

An inventive biography of one of the most famous ships of all time - recently discovered off the coast of America- Endeavour is...

‘A wonderful and important book, that from its first pages draws the reader along on a fascinating, gripping, often funny...

Taut, brooding and densely atmospheric, these stories show us the ways in which murder can arise out of boredom, perversity can...

Genghis Khan was by far the greatest conqueror the world has ever known, whose empire stretched from the Pacific Ocean to central...