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What happens when we attempt to exchange the life we are given for something better?

Five people, in very different...

Henry Dunbar, the once all-powerful head of a global media corporation, is not having a good day. In his dotage he handed over...

Frank Buckland was an extraordinary man – surgeon, natural historian, popular lecturer, bestselling writer, museum curator, and a...

An enthralling voyage of discovery to meet a rare and mysterious bird of prey that puzzled Darwin, fascinates modern-day...

Selected as a Book of the Year by The Times and The Economist

China's history is an epic tapestry of courtly philosophies,...

Virtual reality has long been one of the dominant cliches of science fiction. Now virtual reality is a reality: from the...

An electrifying, prizewinning short story collection from the Booker-shortlisted author of Eileen and My Year of Rest and...

Trapped between caring for her alcoholic father and her job as a secretary at the boys' prison, Eileen Dunlop dreams of escaping...

A funny, sharp, delicately woven story of female friendship

Read this funny, sharp, delicately woven story of two women's...

The definitive, chilling account of Britain's involvement in Afghanistan and the first book to document the entire conflict, from...

Memed grows up a serf to a vicious overlord on the thistle-clad plains of Turkey’s Taurus region. When his plan to escape is...

A retired widow in rural Connecticut wakes to an unexpected visit from her childhood best friend whom she hasn't seen in...

This book of dark secrets opens with a blaze. On the morning of her daughter's wedding, June Reid's house goes up in flames,...

A radical examination of Britain's relationship with the land by one of our greatest nature writers.

The British love their...

Nicholas Shakespeare’s collected stories take us around the globe and into the intimate lives of his characters and the dilemmas...

From satellites circling the Earth, to weather stations far out in the ocean, through some of the most ingenious minds and...

A remarkable early collection of stories by Alice Munro, the bestselling author of Dear Life, and one of the greatest fiction...

The only novel from bestselling author Alice Munro, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature

Catching frogs, grazing knees,...

Vigna Paul, Casey...

1988 saw the birth of the internet. 2008 gave us bitcoin. Today, cybercurrencies are changing the world we live in. What would a...

London dances to the tune of Gorsky's billions.The most enigmatic of oligarchs, Gorsky desires and gets the best of everything...

Mahatma Gandhi became a legend in his own time.

A tireless fighter for human rights and for Indian independence, his strategy...

Robert Grieve - pushing thirty and eager to side-step a life of quiet desperation as a small-town teacher - decides to go...

The bestselling author of Girl with a Pearl Earring and The Last Runaway returns with a tale of jealousy, bullying and...

'In this land of chaos and despair, all I can do is wish for magic armour and the power to disappear.'

Freetown, Sierra...

A flooded world.
A floating circus.
Two women in search of a home.

North lives on a circus boat with her beloved bear,...

Birdsong is a mesmerising story of love and war spanning three generations between WW1 and present day.

1910. Amiens, Northern...

In 1757, a down-and-out Irish poet, the head waiter at the Shakespear's Head Tavern in Covent Garden, and a celebrated London...

Alice and Alife couldn't be more different.

He's charming, talkative and outgoing. She's reserved, efficient and a...

If you've ever wondered whether you love your dog more than your partner...

Life hasn't gone according to Judy's plan. Her...

Tender and humorous novel of second chances and life-changing new friendship for fans of Rachel Joyce, Clare Chambers and Barbara...