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A funny look at the social and political dynamic of French village life.

Gabriel Chevallier's delightful novel Clochemerle...

'A very funny, bitterly intelligent novel...do read it' Malcolm Bradbury

Sefton Goldberg: mid-thirties, English teacher at...

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time is a murder mystery novel like no other.

The detective, and narrator, is...

The vivid scenes on the Bayeux Tapestry depict the events leading up to the Battle of Hastings in 1066. It is one of Europe's...

From the moment that Gjorg's brother is killed by a neighbour, his own life is forfeit: for the code of Kanun requires Gjorg to...

Margaret Forster presents the 'edited' diary of a woman, born in 1901, whose life spans the twentieth century. On the eve of the...

The Gulag, the Stalinist labour camps to which millions of Russians were condemned for political deviation, has become a...

Cipriano Algor, an ageing potter, lives with his daughter and her husband in the shadow of the Centre, a nebulous, constantly...

What begins as the record of W. G. Sebald’s own journey on foot through coastal East Anglia, from Lowestoft to Bungay, becomes...

What could possibly connect Stendhal's unrequited love, a series of murders by a clandestine organisation, the Great Fire of...

An award-winning epic on the birth of Australia

In 1787, the twenty-eighth year of the reign of King George III, the British...

It is the summer of 1936, the early months of the agonising civil war that engulfs Spain and shakes the rest of the world. In a...

Realising that his New Year is probably going to be a disaster, as usual, our narrator, on impulse, walks into a travel agency to...

'I don't suppose you'd care to house-sit for a while...'

Hetty Longden's mother thinks that looking after Great Uncle Samuel's...

Can love be about to bloom? A wonderfully romantic novel from the No. 1 Sunday Times bestselling author of Recipe for Love, A...

May, Sally and Harriet have had enough.

They may work at Quality Cleaners, but there is nothing quality about the way their...

Love will find a way. A wonderfully romantic novel from the No. 1 Sunday Times bestselling author of Recipe for Love, A French...

Ellie Summers' life is unravelling. Finding herself pregnant - and her sexy but idle boyfriend Rick less than enthusiastic about...

A stall at a farmers' market, a sprig of mistletoe, and a spontaneous kiss from a tall, attractive stranger...

Nel is the...

By the author of Stoner, the surprise international bestseller

After the brutal murder of his great-uncle, Julius Caesar,...

The Bridge on the River Kwai tells the story of three POWs who endure the hell of the Japanese camps on the Burma-Siam railway -...

Tusker and Lily Smalley stayed on in India. Given the chance to return 'home' when Tusker, once a Colonel in the British Army,...

Roithamer, a character based on Wittgenstein, has committed suicide having been driven to madness by his own frightening powers...

'The window panes reflected apples, reflected roses; all the leaves were green in the glass'

Nowhere are Virginia Woolf's...

Harry Benson is a man troubled by violent seizures and blackouts, with grave doubts about what occurs during those lost hours....

Heroic and moving accounts of the R.A.F. in war time by the author of Fair Stood the Wind for France and The Darling Buds of...

India 1942: everything is in flux. World War II has shown that the British are not invincible and the self-rule lobby is gaining...

The Battlecruiser: in its day, this class of ship was considered one of the great triumphs of the Royal Navy, as swift as a...

Set in Reformation Europe, Q begins with Luther's nailing of his 95 theses on the door of the cathedral church in Wittenberg. Q...

The first in an exciting new series for children from ex-SAS officer and bestselling adult author Chris Ryan. Five kids: Alex,...