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50,000 years ago, we were not the only species of human in the world. There were at least four others, including the...

Mary is a difficult grandmother for Durga to love. She is sharp-tongued and ferocious, with more demons than there are lines on...

The infamous literary hoax that fooled the art world

On January 8 1960, artist Nat Tate set out to burn his entire life's...

It is spring 1917 in the Cornish coastal village of Zennor, and the young artist Clare Coyne is waking up to the world. Ignoring...

1950s Tehran. In an alleyway an abandoned baby cries into the night, attracting the attention of the young man who will save her....

Des is a good husband, a good father - a good man.

He encourages his wife's artistic endeavours, reads bedtime stories to his...

We have spent decades optimising our waking hours, but what about the precious hours after we doze off (or try to)? The Magic of...

The Pizzeria Vesuvio looks like any other Italian restaurant in London - with a few small differences. The chefs who make the...

Matar was nineteen years old when his father was kidnapped. In the year following he found himself turning to art, particularly...

The life of Gandhi, in his own words

150th Anniversary Edition with a New Introduction by Pankaj Mishra

'Generations to...

Calla knows how the lottery works. Everyone does. On the day of your first bleed, you report to the station to learn what kind of...

Is there such a thing as a perfect marriage?

David thought so. But when his wife Mary Rose dies suddenly he has to think...

'To tell the story of a country or a continent is surely a great and complex undertaking; but the story of a quiet, unnoticed...

Jude is popular, beautiful, wealthier than most in Deep Valley. Cindy is Jude's neighbour - younger, poorer, a kid from the kind...

From the Booker Prize-winning and Women's Prize-shortlisted author of The Silence of the Girls

The first novel in Pat...

Poignant and beautifully sculpted, a novel about exile, identity and the many kinds of travellers moving through our modern world...

An unnamed country is leaving the darkness of a decade at war, and to commemorate the armistice the government commissions a new...

The groundbreaking two-term President of Ireland tells the stories of her life

When a young Mary McAleese told a priest that...

Lydia and Freddie. Freddie and Lydia. They've been together for almost a decade, and are just about to get married. But then, on...

Which Haruki Murakami novel shares its title with a Beatles song?
In Roald Dahl's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, what is...

A stolen sister. A daughter determined to uncover the truth.

'I was gripped, moved and utterly in thrall to this deeply...

Lisa needs to disappear. And her friend's rambling old home in the wilds of Yorkshire seems like the perfect place. It's miles...

You made a mistake . . .
But they're saying it's murder.

Every Monday, 49-year-old Ellie looks after her grandson Josh. She...

Nobel Laureate and two-time Booker prize-winning author of Disgrace, J. M. Coetzee tells the remarkable story of a nation gripped...

The hand of a stranger offered in solace. A flower placed on a dead body as a mark of respect. It is these moments of empathy...

'An astonishing portrait of an innocent on the verge of discovering the cruelties of love... there are whispers here of the...

Advent Island in the South Pacific, with its coconut palms and thick green jungle, should be Eden for missionary Max and his...

A compelling story of darkness and light, of traumatic loss and second chances, The Cleaner of Chartres tells of the mysterious...

From the wickedly funny author of Submarine comes a hilarious new tragicomedy - a screwball tale of millennial angst, pre-midlife...

'To the red country and part of the gray country of Oklahoma, the last rains came gently, and they did not cut the scarred...