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Singapore, 1942. As Japanese troops sweep down Malaysia and into Singapore, a village is ransacked. Only three survivors remain,...

The crunch of a bird’s wing.

A cloud of butterflies, so beautiful it smothers.

A crimson flash of blood across an artist’s...

“Surely you would like to be immortalised in art, fixed forever in perfection?”

Sadler’s Wells, 1933.

I would kill to dance...

Alice Tonks would love to make friends at boarding school. And, being autistic, she just wants people to accept her for who she...

London 1885 - A woman's body is discovered on Edgware Road. Ten miles away, her head is pulled from the dark muddy waters of the...

White Boy Shuffle is Man Booker-winner Paul Beatty’s electrifying debut novel about teenage-surf-bum Gunnar Kaufman who is forced...

In Ancient Rome all the best stories have one thing in common – murder. Romulus killed Remus to found the city, Caesar was...

If we can save the salmon, we can save the world.
Over the centuries, salmon have been a vital resource, a dietary staple and an...

They had not lost anyone that year, or the ones they had lost were not worth remembering…

Set in the fictional Kenyan town of...

Most things you 'know' about science and religion are myths or half-truths that grew up in the last years of the nineteenth...

The history of the world is the history of great women.

Marie Curie discovered radium and revolutionised medical science....

Here are three things you should know about my husband:

1. He was the great love of my life despite his penchant for going...

One family, two generations of women and a war that will change their lives forever

Ha Noi, 1972. Huong and her grandmother,...

In one of the most talked about and hilarious debuts of the year, Afi Tekple, a bright young seamstress from a small town in...

Mrs Owl had a knack for finding the perfect book for every customer, before they even realised what it was they were looking...

What do the Greek myths mean to us today?

It's now a golden age for these tales - they crop up in novels, films and popular...

What’s to be done about a drunken elephant? A monkey caught mugging passers-by? A trespassing squirrel?

Follow Mary Roach as...

'My father, James Witherspoon, is a bigamist.'

Secrets

Dana and Chaurisse are sisters, bound together by the life-changing...

New writing from the literary master

Throughout Proust’s life, nine of his short stories remained unseen – the writer never...

From an award-winning Scottish poet, an unforgettable novel about memory and radical forgiveness

How far would you go to...

When twelve-year-old Alex receives an old tin robot in the post, the note from his grandfather simply reads: ‘This one is...

From the discovery of entirely new kinds of galaxies to a window into cosmic 'prehistory', Bothwell shows us the Universe as...

Vacca Vale, Indiana: recently voted number 1 on Newsweek‘s list of dying American cities. According to the developers, however,...

I thought I was done with death, at least a little bit, but death wasn’t done with me.

It’s always been Tiger and her mother...

Winner of The Guardian's Not the Booker Prize.
Fielding Bliss has never forgotten the summer of 1984. The year a heatwave...

Wanted:
Diligent volunteer to carry out two months'
painstaking archival work for private library.
Board and lodging...

Longlisted for the International Man Booker Prize.

Two venturesome women on a journey through the land of their fathers and...

‘He had never married and had never been with one woman for long; he had always remained a collector of first times.’

Edward...

From one of Brazil’s rising literary stars, an acclaimed novella about the violation of a woman and a city, based on true...

Four strangers from around the world arrive in India for a wedding. Together, they climb a mountain - but will they see the same...