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One of the few advantages that India has over England is a great Knowability. After five years' service a man is directly or...

Born and educated in Dublin, Ireland, William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) discovered early in his literary career a fascination with...

Bless me! reader, gentle or simple, or whatever you be, how impatiently by this time must you expect this preface, supposing it...

Although Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra was not only the brightest genius of his age and country, but a man of active life and open...

When Bathsheba Everdene inherits a farm from her uncle, no-one expects her to run it alone. But our spirited young heroine will...

Written around 1645, Miyamoto Musashi’s Five Rings is a classic Japanese work on mastery in swordsmanship, leadership and...

I have a gift. I see people as ghosts before they die.
Of course, it helps that I'm the one killing them.

The night after her...

Krasznahorkai's extraordinary first novel is back - and more devilish than ever.
In the darkening embers of a Communist utopia,...

An anthology of essays on video games by some of today's best literary writers

Whether you're an avid gamer, a Twitch...

Realising he and she are the very worst kind of people, a middle-aged man embarks on a dubious road trip through Switzerland with...

An entertaining collection of strange, delightful and unexpectedly apt words from the origins of English.

Old English is the...

A groundbreaking and controversial new theory about how we talk.
Like other tools, language was invented, can be reinvented or...

1930s Europe - as the Roaring Twenties wind down and the world rumbles towards war, the great minds of the time have other...

The dazzling new bestseller from the author of The Appeal.

Forty years ago, Steven Smith found a copy of a famous children's...

Six Students. One Murder. Your Time Starts Now...

The mature students of Royal Hastings University's new art course have been...

From the title story's fantastical inter-dimensional assassins to the steampunk dystopia of "Grey Rabbit, Crimson Mare, Coal...

One best friend's wedding. One predicted love match. And no way of guessing how the story will end...

Anna was never going to...

A slow-burn romance fifteen years in the making...
Hattie has spent half her life secretly crushing on Freddie – her best friend...

Thirty years from now and the effects of climate change are overwhelming the planet – but so are the global efforts to combat...

The Sun is dying. Earth will perish too, consumed by the star in its final death throes. But rather than abandon their planet,...

'We're mysterious aliens in the crowd. We jump like fleas from future to past and back again, and float like clouds of gas...

Imagine a universe patrolled by numberless and nameless predators.

Imagine what might happen to any civilisation unwise enough...

The second book in The Dandelion Dynasty, the epic fantasy trilogy by Ken Liu.

Dara is united under the Emperor Ragin, once...

From James Joyce to Coco Chanel, 1913 is an irreverent but poignant portrait of Europe on the brink of war.

A witty yet moving...

Lily is the daughter of a humble farmer, and to her family she is just another expensive mouth to feed. Then the local matchmaker...

It looks like Jessica and Jack have it all. Their social media accounts show them glamorous, happy and sickeningly in love. They...

The science behind James Bond's exploits – armaments, tactics, plots and enemy tech.

The adventures of James Bond have...

Harry Freedman uncovers the spiritual traditions that lie behind Leonard Cohen's profound and unmistakable lyrics.

The singer...

From the international bestselling author of The Silk Roads comes a major history of how a changing climate has dramatically...

'Believe me, I'll be the first to find out, and you'll be the second. It's not like I'm good at keeping secrets ... you know you...