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As a child in the 1960s, Luke Jennings was fascinated by the rivers and lakes around his Sussex home. Beneath their surfaces, it...

‘My name is Oscar and I’m ten years old . . . They call me Egghead and I look about seven. I live in hospital because of my...

Christian Wolmar expertly tells the story of the Trans-Siberian railway from its conception and construction under Tsar Alexander...

1991. A young man is mesmerised by the rolling coverage of Desert Storm. Forging sick notes to avoid work and feigning reasons to...

As lead singer of Happy Mondays and Black Grape, Shaun Ryder was the Keith Richards and Mick Jagger of his generation. A true...

Fortune favours the fraud…

When she was thirteen years old, Ada Howell lost not just her father, but the life she felt she...

In 1945, with no homes to return to, Jewish refugees set out for Palestine in their tens of thousands.

City of Secrets follows...

Child Lee, Дивер...

Con men and killers, aliens and zombies, priests and soldiers - just some of the characters that kill and thrill in this...

A. N. Wilson's powerful new novel explores the life and times of one of the greatest British explorers, Captain Cook, and the...

A deadly plague is spreading across the land…

As the year 1349 approaches, the Black Death continues its devastating course...

Winner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and shortlisted for the Man Booker, The Good Doctor is a powerful tale of a friendship...

Power. Jealousy. Desire.

Twenty-five years ago, a sixteen-year-old schoolgirl and her charismatic teacher disappeared without...

Angel Tungazara runs a small business, baking cakes for the parties and celebrations of her neighbours. As her customers tell her...

How can sea cucumbers, geckos and termites help us cure diseases, camouflage soldiers and even keep our buildings cool? Nature’s...

When you open up, who will you let in?

Alex Morris has lost everything:her relationship, her career and her faith in the...

Paris, 1959. As dusk settles over the immigrant quarter, 12-year-old Michel Marini – amateur photographer and compulsive reader –...

An evening in Amsterdam and two couples meet for dinner.
They need to discuss their teenage sons.
The boys have committed a...

In this fascinating and provocative book, David Willetts shows how the baby boomer generation has amassed unprecedented wealth...

Love, Poverty and War: Journeys and Essays showcases the Hitchens' rejection of consensus and cliche, whether he's reporting from...

The Eusistocratic Republic of Finland has bred a new human sub-species of receptive, submissive women, called eloi, for sex and...

A gripping, claustrophobic novel of guilty secrets, obsession and self-reinvention on the African Savannah from the twice Man...

In the darkest days of the Blitz, family is more important than ever.

With her family struggling amidst the nightly bombing...

Since the end of the Cold War so-called experts have been predicting the eclipse of America’s “special relationship” with...

There’s a lot of angst around these days. This heightened sense of fear, concern, insecurity and uncertainty can be...

When women take to protest, there is no looking back. Sometimes it is over working conditions, other times, perhaps, a strike for...

21st Century Mumbai is a city of new money and soaring real estate, and property kingpin Dharmen Shah has grand plans for its...

In Tokyo - one of the world's largest megacities - a stray cat is wending her way through the back alleys. And, with each detour,...

In this compelling tour of the classical world, Peter Jones reveals how it is the power, scope and fascination of their ideas...

Richard Russo’s new novel takes place in the decaying American town of North Bath over the course of a very busy weekend, ten...

Discover why outsiders from Trump to Corbyn are succeeding like never before - and what this means for you.

In recent years,...