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In November 1955, Nasser Ali Khan, one of Iran's most celebrated tar players, is in search of a new instrument. His beloved tar...

A vivid, believable love story between an older woman and a younger man.

Lea de Lonval is a magnificent and aging courtesan...

In the black of night, a woman lands on the fields of Occupied France. Charlotte Grey is on a mission for the British government...

Gratton... , Ireland...

An assassin, a soldier, a prince . . . and a deadly game of power, where no one knows the rules. Prepare to enter the world of...

1431 is a dangerous time for a woman to be defiant.

England has been fighting France for 100 years. At home, power-hungry men...

This bitterly funny Cold War satire on the end of the world expresses our deepest fears of Armageddon, and has become a...

Cassandra Darke is an art dealer, mean, selfish, solitary by nature, living in Chelsea in a house worth ?7 million.

She has...

The Discworld is very much like our own – if our own were to consist of a flat planet balanced on the back of four elephants...

Agatha Christie called her 'a shining light'. Have you discovered Margery Allingham, the 'true queen' of the classic murder...

In Candide, Voltaire threw down an audacious challenge to the philosophical views of the Enlightenment to create one of the most...

The spirit of satire flourished during the Enlightenment as in no other period and the crowning achievement of that caustic,...

Why is blood red? Why are carrots orange? Who invented the lightbulb? Why is the world 'going green'? Is the sky really blue? And...

Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's...

Barker... , Edworthy...

Rewind to 1971, and Sue Barker's coach is sending his 15-year-old tennis protegee to a junior championship in France, alone, with...

Bob Bloomfield is, in the words of his best friend's wife, a 'selfish, arrogant a sehole', who hasn't spent a great deal of time...

Given that insects vastly outnumber us (there are approximately 200 million insects for every human) it is no surprise that there...

'Your country needs you. Your world needs you. Your time is now.'

Our politics is a mess. Leaders who can't or shouldn't be...

In this funny, erudite, endlessly curious, uncannily prescient collection of essays cultural icon Margaret Atwood asks:

- Why...

Joe Sacco is renowned for his non-fiction books of comics journalism like Palestine, Safe Area Gorazde and Footnotes in Gaza. Now...

Long regarded an anachronism and a thorn in the side of its superiors, the Peculiar Crimes Unit is to be disbanded. For...

They've been given just one week to find a killer they'd caught once before . . .
Arthur Bryant, John May and the Peculiar...

As the nation's oldest serving detectives, we know more about London than almost anyone. After all, we've been walking its...

The defenestration of a ruthless theatre impresario's young son was definitely not the best way to end the play's first night...

Sixteen-year-old Sashi wants to become a doctor. But over the next decade, as a vicious civil war tears through her hometown of...

Lynda drives to a secluded beauty spot on the Somerset coast.

CCTV watches her arrive, but never sees her leave.

She is...

Nobody sees and understands woodland better than Ray Mears.

With deep natural history knowledge and practical woodcraft...

The authoritative and fascinating history of the rise and fall of the state-owned British Rail

British Rail wasn't how we're...

It is the scene for our hopeful beginnings and our intended ends, and the timeless experiences of coming and going, meeting,...

As a teenager, Cox dreamed of sporting immortality. For four years he devoted himself to the game of golf. And then, one day, he...

To win the climate war, you first need to win the climate argument.

For many years, Sadiq wasn't fully aware of the dangers...