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One May evening in London, as a result of a chance encounter and a split-second decision, the young climatologist Adam Kindred...

Jem is a joyful mystery to Alice: a whirl of glamour, subversion and literary references. And when she disappears from Alice's...

Sisters Ellen and Lydia live out an idyllic girlhood in Oxford, their wayward adventures of no concern to their passive, donnish...

In 1954 a fisherman is found dead in the nets of his boat, and a local Japanese-American man is charged with his murder. In the...

Beginning in America, and spilling back over memories and generations to India, Unaccustomed Earth explores the heart of family...

As a novelist, essayist, and cultural historian, John Berger is a writer of dazzling eloquence and arresting insight whose work...

A mother and father, estranged for years, are travelling across Europe to their daughter's wedding. Vibrant, beautiful Ninon has...

Jane Charlotte has been arrested for murder. During questioning, she tells the police that she is a member of a secret...

One of the world's most celebrated authors, Margaret Atwood has written a collection of smart and entertaining fictional essays,...

It is 1939. Eva Delectorskaya is a beautiful 28-year-old Russian emigree living in Paris. As war breaks out she is recruited for...

Frank Bascombe has a younger girlfriend and a job as a sportswriter. To many men of his age, thirty-eight, this would be a cause...

Early one morning in 1899, in a small town along the coast from Mombasa, Hassanali sets out for the mosque. But he never gets...

'At the age of twelve my ambition was to be a gangster. To me being a wiseguy was better than being president of the United...

At one prestigious American public school, the boys like to emphasise their democratic ideals - the only acknowledged snobbery is...

Born in East Africa, Yusuf has few qualms about the journey he is to make. It never occurs to him to ask why he is accompanying...

On a late November afternoon Saleh Omar arrives at Gatwick Airport from Zanzibar, a far away island in the Indian Ocean. With him...

Behind anonymous screens, an army of cool and beautiful girls manage the dating service Ghost Lover, a forwarding system for text...

One by one, she undid each event, each decision, each choice.
If Davy had remembered to put on a coat.
If Seamie McGeown had...

A fully illustrated, panoramic world history of art from ancient civilisation to the present day, exploring the remarkable...

W. G. Sebald was one of the most extraordinary and influential writers of the twentieth century. Through books including The...

An invitation to supper at Angela Hartnett's house is a real treat. Nestled in the heart of London's vibrant East End, you know...

Quick, easy veggie curries for everyday.

Need a tasty dinner in a hurry? Look no further than this mouth-watering collection...

From simple but brilliant burgers to feasts from around the world: the ultimate barbecue bible from one of Britain's best-loved...

Having lost more than 12 stone in the last five years, Tom knows from experience how important it is to motivate yourself to...

Valkyries: the female supernatural beings that choose who dies and who lives on the battlefield. They protect some, but guide...

Welcome back to a new year at Wayside School – where things are as strange and eccentric as ever.

There are twenty-nine kids...

The Wombles is the first ever Wombles book and introduces the stern but kindly Great Uncle Bulgaria; Orinoco, who is particularly...

Here we are.
And we are living.
Isn't that amazing?
How we manage to be here at all.

Grace and Tippi don't like being...

'Once, and once only, there was a boy whose name was Fizzlebert.' Fizzlebert Stump lives in a circus and it's the great Circus of...

Feodora and her mother live in the snowbound woods of Russia, in a house full of food and fireplaces. Ten minutes away, in a...