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Sheila's twenties were going to plan.

She got married.
She hosted parties.
A theatre asked her to write a play.

Then she...

Discover John Cheever’s quirky psychological novel that is the perfect book club read.

Ezekiel Farragut is a college...

'Two Surface-dwellers. Two! He's a Fattypuff and you're a Thinifer. There's no doubt about it!'

This is the tale of two...

One morning Herman Mussert wakes up in a hotel room in Lisbon, where twenty years previously he slept with another man’s wife....

The first modern spy novel and a must-read for espionage junkies and fans of James Bond and John Le Carre.

When Carruthers...

'Only one thing was clear and certain - that at all costs he was going home, home to his own beloved master...'

The Hunter...

'On the contrary, my dear Watson, you can see everything. You fail, however, to reason from what you see'

Herein lie the...

You might think I'd have grown out of getting myself into scrapes now that I'm half past sixteen. But between being vexed by my...

'Look here! Here's a jolly life! What's the odds where it comes from?'

Meet the Artful Dodger, as roistering and swaggering a...

'I am Dracula. And I bid you welcome to my house'

He is deathly pale. His fingernails are cut to sharp points. His teeth...

‘Traitor! Now is your death-time upon you!’

You may think you know all about King Arthur, the young boy who plucked the sword...

In 1918 Ernest Hemingway went to war. He volunteered for ambulance service in Italy, was wounded and twice decorated. Out of his...

‘Many years ago – when our grandfathers were little children – there was a doctor and his name was Dolittle’

Dr Dolittle...

During the second world war Eric Lomax was forced to work on the notorious Burma-Siam Railway and was tortured by the Japanese...

At sixty-four Mickey Sabbath is still defiantly antagonistic and exceedingly libidinous; sex is an obsession and a principle, an...

How does a genius see the world? Where and how does inspiration strike?

Cedric Villani takes us on a mesmerising adventure as...

Ten-year-old Darling has a choice: it's down, or out

'To play the country-game, we have to choose a country. Everybody wants...

In an age when a storm was evidence of God's wrath, pioneering meteorologists had to fight against convention and religious dogma...

Famed beauty Venetia Stanley is so extravagantly dazzling she has inspired Ben Jonson to poetry and Van Dyck to painting,...

One game. Six students. Five survivors.

It was only ever meant to be a game.

A game of consequences, of silly forfeits,...

Fresh out of high school, Karl Ove moves to a remote fishing village to work as a teacher. He has no interest in the job itself -...

Childhood is exhilarating and terrifying. For the young Karl Ove, new houses, classes and friends are met with manic excitement...

'On the kibbutz it's hard to know. We're all supposed to be friends but very few really are'

Ariella, unhappy in love,...

Their god is War. And every god needs his Devil. The Religion

Malta, 1565. The greatest war the world has ever seen is...

Born the son of a Billingsgate market porter at the height of the Second World War, David Jason spent his early life dodging...

They lied to protect their country. He told the truth to save it. A gripping historical thriller from the bestselling author of...

As Rome's war with Carthage continues, two friends - now on opposing sides - confront each other in one of the most brutal sieges...

AD 9, Germania. East of the river Rhine, tribes hostile to Rome prepare a deadly ambush.

Their leader is the charismatic...

AD 9, Germania. East of the river Rhine, tribes hostile to Rome prepare a deadly ambush.

Their leader is the charismatic...

AD 15. The German chieftain Arminius has been defeated, one of the lost Roman eagles recovered, and thousands of German tribesmen...