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From a Hackney council estate to the House of Lords, this is the extraordinary story of one of our greatest...

The first book in V. S. Naipaul's acclaimed Indian trilogy - with a preface by the author.

An Area of Darkness is V. S....

Miguel Street, V. S. Naipaul's first written work of fiction, is set in a derelict corner of Port of Spain, Trinidad, during...

Buildings are driven by human emotions and desires; hope, power, money, sex, the idea of home.

In Why We Build Rowan Moore...

1588. In the height of her power is the legendary Elizabeth Tudor, history's most enigmatic queen. She is the virgin with many...

Stephen Maxwell has just retired from a lifetime spent teaching history at his alma mater. As he writes the official history of...

Award-winning author Simon Winder takes us through the legacy of one of Britain's most influential and enduring cultural figures,...

'We need to create a home to return to. And when I say home, I'm not talking about a physical place or somewhere where pants are...

Filled with a diverse cast of characters, the heartache of first love and loss, and the kind of friends that can get you through...

The eponymous Albert is an architect by training but a supply teacher out of necessity. Feeling that he is failing at both, and...

Break free of your destructive relationship with money, and learn how money can actually make you happy with How to Worry Less...

Bad News is the second of Edward St Aubyn's semi-autobiographical Patrick Melrose novels, adapted for TV for Sky Atlantic and...

Winner of the CWA Gold Dagger Award for Fiction, Fox Evil is the bestselling thriller from crime queen Minette Walters.

When...

1912 in the Yorkshire Dales and Alice Bentham and her brother Will have lost their mother to cancer. Money is scarce and pride...

The award-winning Tigers in Red Weather is a book that simmers with tension, threat and an intoxicating cocktail of money, sex,...

Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, Pablo Picasso, Cole and Linda Porter, Ernest Hemingway, John Dos Passos - all are summer guests of...

N is for Noose is the fourteenth in the Kinsey Millhone mystery series by Sue Grafton.

Sometimes I think about how odd it...

A timely work of major historical importance, examining the whole spectrum of events from the 1916 Easter Rising to the current...

Beyond the Veil of Tears is an inspiring and heartfelt novel of a young woman's struggle to escape a life of exploitation and...

One long last summer for Dad Lewis in his beloved town, Holt, Colorado. As old friends pass in and out to voice their farewells...

A hatchet job isn't just a bad review, it's a total trashing. Mark Kermode is famous for them - Pirates of the Caribbean, Sex and...

One September morning in 2008, an investment banker approaching forty, his career in collapse and his marriage unravelling,...

One woman's mercy is another's murder . . .

Ireland, 1825. Nora, bereft after the sudden death of her husband, finds herself...

Rachel Booker has a difficult start in life. When her father dies, deep in gambling debt, her mother must harden herself to make...

The fifth novel from award-winning author Helen Oyeyemi, named one of Granta's best young British novelists. A retelling of the...

A compelling saga from Margaret Dickinson, Fairfield Hall charts the changing fortunes of Annabel Constantine, in the devastating...

Young couples gather to participate in an annual 'chainsaw party', cutting down trees for firewood in anticipation of the winter....

All That Is explores a life unfolding in a world on the brink of change. The life is that of Philip Bowman and we see his...

Inspector Montalbano: The First Three Novels in the Series contains The Shape of Water, The Terracotta Dog and The Snack Thief,...

The School of Life offers radical ways to help us raid the treasure trove of human knowledge' Independent on Sunday

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