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'After Mark Cocker's glorious book, you will never look at a blackberry bush the same way again.'
Philip Hoare, New Statesman...

A great thinker's final testament: a characteristically wise and forthright collection of essays from the author of Postwar and...

'Flaneuse [flanne-euhze], noun, from the French. Feminine form of flaneur [flanne-euhr], an idler, a dawdling observer, usually...

Armed only with a counterfeit 100-Euro note, Ajatashatru the fakir arrives in Paris. His mission? To acquire a splendid new bed...

I was strong and he was not so it was me went to war to defend the Republic. I stepped across the border out of Indiana into...

There is nothing quite as beautiful as an English country house in summer. And there has never been a summer quite like that...

‘When I finished Sara Baume’s new novel I immediately felt sad that I could not send it in the post to the late John Berger. He,...

You find me on a Tuesday, on my Tuesday trip to town. A note sellotaped to the inside of the jumble-shop window: COMPASSIONATE &...

'Salman Rushdie's greatest novel' Sunday Times

Moraes 'Moor' Zogoiby is the last in line of a crooked and fantastical dynasty...

Susan Frobisher and Julie Wickham are turning sixty. Susan has just discovered that her recently deceased husband was not only a...

'A meticulous and gripping reimagination of the Brighton bomb' Observer, Best Novels of 2015

In September 1984, a man calling...

In brilliant poetic prose Bright Air Black brings us aboard the ship Argo for its epic return journey across the Black Sea from...

Frank Brill, a retired small-town newspaper editor, has just been given a terminal diagnosis.

Rather than compile a bucket...

Kennedy Marr is a novelist from the old school. Irish, acerbic, and a borderline alcoholic and sex-addict, his mantra is drink...

You thought you could leave the past behind.

Think again.

Donnie Miller counts himself lucky. Living in a beautiful,...

God takes a look at the Earth around the time of the Renaissance and everything looks pretty good - so he takes a holiday. In...

Gary is a sweet and decent man. Only two things would improve his life - having children with his gorgeous wife Pauline, and a...

After moving from London to a new home in Yorkshire, and about to become a father for the first time, Rob Cowen finds himself in...

Guns. Sex. Drugs. Murder.
The Dark Net is just a click away.
Beyond the familiar online world that most of us inhabit lies a...

2019 marked the centenary of Stanley Middleton's birth. Holiday, winner of the 1974 Booker Prize, remains the most celebrated and...

We spend more time than ever online, and the digital revolution is rewiring our sense of what it means to be human. Smartphones...

Meet the Bradleys.

In lots of ways, they're a normal family:
Zippy is sixteen and in love for the first time; Al is thirteen...

Still Life with Bread Crumbs begins with an imagined gunshot and ends with a new tin roof. Between the two is a wry and knowing...

HMS Temeraire: latest and most advanced of Britain's nuclear submarines. When Temraire's trials are cut short and she is ordered...

December 1917: Germany opens the final, bitter round of the war with a new and deadly weapon in the struggle for the seas - the...

Malta 1941. To most people HMS Saracen is just an ugly, obsolete ship with an equally ugly recent history: her last commander is...

November, 1941: The War in the Pacific.

Lieutenant Ralph Trewin, D.S.C., arrives at Singapore as second-in-command of the...

1774: The new year seems to offer Richard Bolitho and his friend Martyn Dancer the culmination of a dream. Both have been...

By Its Cover is the much anticipated twenty-third instalment in Donna Leon's bestselling crime series, where Commissario Brunetti...

During the First World War three quarters of a million British people died – a figure so huge that it feels impossible to give it...