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The once-great city of Bohane on the west coast of Ireland is on its knees, infested by vice and split along tribal lines. There...

September 1613.

In Belvoir Castle, the heir of one of England's great noble families falls suddenly and dangerously ill. His...

This book is about learning to live.

Echoing Socrates’ statement that the unexamined life not worth living, psychoanalyst...

Michael Beard is a Nobel prize-winning physicist whose best work is behind him. A compulsive womaniser, Beard finds his fifth...

How have the modern world, technology and our addiction to information changed who we are? What effect does it have on our...

Nothing experienced in human history, before or since, eclipses the terror, tragedy and scale of the Black Death, the disease...

A groundbreaking and fascinating biography of England's most famous queen, viewed through the women who influenced her...

Building work in an expanding Reykjavik uncovers a shallow grave.

Years before, this part of the city was all open hills, and...

A seductive collection of stories from the 'magnificent story-teller' (Independent on Sunday). Rose Tremain has sold over one...

A dazzling novel of loyalty and dreams set in Restoration England.

The gaudy years of the Restoration are long gone and Robert...

Every morning Hakan von Enke takes a walk in the forest near his apartment in Stockholm. Then, one day he fails to come...

After ten years' journeying Odysseus returns, again and again, to Ithaca. Each time he finds something different: his patient...

Either you kill the bull, or the bull kills you - traditional proverb.

Chief Inspector Max Camara hates bullfighting but one...

A nostalgic and very funny celebration of the slightly slapdash place we call home: Great Britain

Would you cheer if they sent...

We last saw Henry Smart, his leg severed in an accident with a railway boxcar, crawl into the Utah desert to die - only to be...

Harry can't trust his own memory

A man is caught on CCTV, shooting dead a cashier at a bank. Detective Harry Hole begins his...

Ora, a middle-aged Israeli mother, is about to celebrate her son Ofer's release from army service when he returns to the front...

It is a few days before Christmas and a Reykjavik doorman and occasional Santa Claus, Gudlauger, has been found stabbed to death...

The essential crime book of our times, from the author of the bestselling McMafia.

Shortlisted for the Orwell Prize 2012

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Britain's foremost female historian reveals the true story of this key figure in the Wars of the Roses and the Tudor dynasty who...

The captivating life of Margaret Douglas - a life of scandal, political intrigue and royal romance that spanned five Tudor...

The New Machiavelli is a gripping account of life inside 'the bunker' of Number 10. In his twenty-first century reworking of...

Fourteen-year-old Tory Brennan is as fascinated by bones and dead bodies as her famous aunt, acclaimed forensic anthropologist,...

If blockbusters make money no matter how bad they are, then why not make a good one for a change?

How can 3-D be the future of...

A dark-skinned young boy is found dead, frozen to the ground in a pool of his own blood. The boy's Thai half-brother is missing;...

A skeleton is found half-buried in a dried out lake. The bones have been weighed down with an old radio transmitter: is this a...

October 1914: the destroyer Svea emerged from the Stockholm archipelago bearing south-south-east. On board was Lars...

Read the cult classic behind the major new film starring Joaquin Phoenix, Reese Witherspoon and Josh Brolin.

Part noir, part...

Isamay's unusual name comes from her two very different grandmothers, Isa and May, who were both present at her birth and who...

Discover the era of William Shakespeare and Elizabeth I through the sharp, informative and hilarious eyes of Ian Mortimer.

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