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Clay is a successful screenwriter, middle-aged and disaffected; he's in LA to cast his new movie. However, this trip is anything...

Each of the judges of the Elysian Prize for literature has a reason for accepting the job. For the chairman, MP Malcolm Craig, it...

In October 1839, Britain entered the first Opium War with China. Its brutality notwithstanding, the conflict was also threaded...

Understanding the modern city and the powerful forces within it is the life’s work of Harvard urban economist Edward Glaeser, who...

It is 1946: the war is over and three young women face a new kind of life. But peacetime brings its own pressures...

Katie...

From the bestselling author of The Piano Tuner, comes Daniel Mason's The Winter Soldier, a story of love and medicine through the...

An extraordinary epic of love, family, and war set in the Basque town of Guernica before, during, and after its destruction by...

Louis Lasker loves his family dearly – apart from when he doesn’t. There’s a lot of history. His father’s marriages, his mother’s...

The Distant Hours by Kate Morton, author of the bestselling The House of Riverton, is a heart-breaking story of love and loss...

What if society wasn't fundamentally rational, but was motivated by insanity? This thought sets Jon Ronson on an utterly...

From Jon Ronson, the Sunday Times top ten bestselling author of The Psychopath Test, this is a captivating and brilliant...

Winner of the Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel, Kraken is a darkly comic, wildly absurd adventure by author of Perdido...

A Swedish crime writer as thrilling as Mankell, a detective as compelling as Wallander...

The Mind's Eye by Hakan Nesser is...

When Oliver Sacks, a physician by profession, injured his leg while climbing a mountain, he found himself in an unusual position...

Telling the story of the week following a fateful train journey, One Moment, One Morning by Sarah Rayner is a stunning novel...

New Year's Eve 1975, Mexico City. Two hunted men leave town in a hurry, on the desert-bound trail of a vanished poet.

Spanning...

One of the remarkable qualities of Roberto Bolano's short stories is that they seem to tell what Bolano called 'the secret...

By Cormac McCarthy, the author of the critically acclaimed Border Trilogy, Child of God is a taut, chilling novel that plumbs the...

In The Making of Modern Britain, Andrew Marr paints a fascinating portrait of life in Britain during the first half of the...

England, 1546: King Henry VIII is slowly, painfully dying. His Protestant and Catholic councillors are engaged in a final and...

By Cormac McCarthy, the author of the critically acclaimed Border Trilogy, Outer Dark is a novel at once mythic and starkly...

Suttree is a compelling, semi-autobiographical novel by Cormac McCarthy, which has as its protagonist Cornelius Suttree, living...

Set in a small, remote community in rural Tennessee in the years between the two world wars, The Orchard Keeper is an early...

Football, and art. Eric Cantona - legend, maverick, troubled artist or just plain trouble - never saw a need to make a...

The original India Pale Ale was pure gold in a glass; a semi-mythical beer specially invented, in the 19th century, to travel...

A Swedish crime writer as thrilling as Mankell, a detective as compelling as Wallander…

Van Veeteren faces a chilling case in...

From Yorkshire to Afghanistan, Ours are the Streets is a poignant and powerful story of political radicalization by Sunjeev...

Full of rich dialogue, Cormac McCarthy's insightful and philosophical play, The Sunset Limited, probes the deepest questions of...

Jack is five. He lives with his Ma. They live in a single, locked room. They don't have the key.

Jack and Ma are...

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