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Reckoned by those about him to be the most handsome man in the country, Edward the fourth has risen to the throne with the help...

When Henry VI becomes king, it is soon clear that he would be better suited to a quiet life than to ruling the country. Richard,...

It is 1946, and seventeen-year-old Laura Telling is stagnating in her dilapidated Sussex family home, while her eccentric parents...

It began with a spark...

A house is burning. Its six tenants include a failed priest, a naturalist, a neurosurgeon and a...

Mount Kailas is the most sacred of the world's mountains - holy to one fifth of humanity. Isolated beyond the central Himalayas,...

By far the shortest of Pynchon's great, dazzling novels - and one of the best.

Suffused with rich satire, chaotic brilliance,...

Henry VIII, renowned for his command of power and celebrated for his intellect, presided over one of the most magnificent-and...

Discover the extraordinary story of the woman who brought China into the modern age, from the bestselling author of Wild...

One cold autumn night, a woman is found hanging from a beam at her holiday cottage. At first sight, it appears like a...

We are poised on the edge of discovery in particle physics (the study of the smallest objects we know of) and cosmology (the...

In a sleepy hamlet in north Sweden, the local police make a chilling discovery; nineteen people have been brutally slaughtered....

Summer of 1911. English society is on the brink of change. The streets of London ring with cheers for a new king's coronation and...

Liverpool, 1939. Lonely historian Tom Baines is at work on a study of the city's architectural past but the ominous news from...

Paddy Clarke is ten years old. Paddy Clarke lights fires. Paddy Clarke's name is written in wet cement all over Barrytown. Paddy...

With this, his first collection, Carver breathed new life into the short story. In the pared-down style that has since become his...

Raymond Carver said it was possible 'to write about commonplace things and objects using commonplace but precise language and...

The short story that inspired the play at the heart of BIRDMAN starring Michael Keaton, Ed Norton and Emma Stone

This...

After the early death of her philandering husband, Etsuko moves into her father-in-law's house, where she numbly submits to the...

Jean Paget is just twenty years old and working in Malaya when the Japanese invasion begins.

When she is captured she joins a...

After the war is over, a radioactive cloud begins to sweep southwards on the winds, gradually poisoning everything in its path....

The mysterious death of a young woman on an Australian farm reveals a bittersweet story of doomed wartime romance amidst a family...

Nevil Shute’s classic Second World War novel is an uplifting, satisfying and moving story.

John Howard is determined to...

Nevil Shute was a power and a pioneer in the world of flying long before he began to write the stories that made him a...

Through a series of mishaps, Henry Warren, a recently divorced City financier, ends up in hospital in a Northern town ruined by...

When Johnny Pascoe attempts to rescue a sick girl from the Tasmanian outback his plane crashes leaving him dangerously injured....

During the Second World War, Peter Marshall's crew become one of the most successful bombing teams in their Oxfordshire airbase....

Young pilot Donald Ross has little in common with the Oxford don who has employed him on an expedition to the Arctic - and still...

Read this classic uplifting, moving and heartwarming story about life in the face of the cold war.

Theodore Honey is a shy,...

In their trusty fishing boat Genevieve, armed with a flame thrower and limited ammunition, a small group of officers and men take...

Jerry Chambers, a fresh-faced young pilot, mistakenly sinks a British submarine. He is reprimanded and sent to a remote posting...