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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...

As a child Gifty would ask her parents to tell the story of their journey from Ghana to Alabama, seeking escape in myths of...

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

Failure is the small print in life's terms and conditions.

Covering everything from examination dreams to fourth-placed...

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...

Cathy and her brother, Rob, don't know why they have been abandoned by their parents. Alone in their grandfather's decaying...

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

A sweeping new novel from the number one Sunday Times bestselling author of The Tea Planter's Wife

In 1943, Contessa Sofia de'...

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...

We are unprepared for the greatest discovery of modern science. Scientists are confident that there is alien life across the...

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...

'The actress arrived in his village the only way one could come directly . . .'

In spring 1962 American actress Dee Moray's...

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

The first novel in Pat...

'Do not open - destroy.'

The words on the envelope he has found are written in Kath's hand, but Glyn ignores his wife's...

One rainy afternoon in Istanbul, a woman walks into a doctor's surgery. 'I need to have an abortion', she announces. She is...

M... , Donwood...

Somewhere on a salt-and-shingle island, inside a ruined concrete structure known as The Green Chapel, a figure called The...

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...

The Miltons are a powerful old New York family - the kind of family that used to run the world. And in 1935, they still do. Kitty...

For the adventurer in your life - young or old - discover a dazzling lost classic and escape to distant shores...

Eepersip is...

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