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The definitive selection of short stories from one of our greatest living writers, curated by Penelope Lively herself

Wry,...

Ancient Greece, 5th century BC

The age of myths and legends has given way to the world of men. In the front rank stands...

It is an ordinary Thursday and things should finally be returning to normal.

Except trouble is never far away where the...

It is an ordinary Thursday and things should finally be returning to normal.

Except trouble is never far away where the...

Utterly compulsive, totally original and with a truly jaw-on-the-floor twist, this is a thriller like no other

Charming and...

Spare, taut and told with flashes of pitch-black humour, the short stories of Norwegian master Kjell Askildsen capture all the...

A gripping near-future thriller in a world turned upside-down . . . for fans of Suzanne Collins, Emily St John Mandel, Bong...

The Cold War plays out in the shadow of the Second World War as old loyalties collide

Sinister rumours link clandestine Arab...

Alternate history meets Cold War thriller in a vintage Len Deighton escapade

11 June, 1940 - where is Winston Churchill?

A...

A sweeping portrait of one Berlin family, spanning generations and two world wars
Peter and Paul, the two sons of German...

Downtown LA. Streetwise lawyer Mickey Murphy has a shabby office in a low-rent district, an ex who bleeds him dry and the kind of...

A Russian scientist is defecting to the West, in order to realize his dreams of contacting extra-terrestrial life among the...

It is 1941 and Germany has won the war. Britain is occupied, Churchill executed and the King imprisoned in the Tower of London....

Of all the mysteries Bernard Samson has encountered, the greatest is his wife Fiona. Dedicated agent of the Service and a woman...

Bernard Samson is a spy on the run. But in the murky streets of Berlin, he knows where to hide. Wanted for an act of treachery he...

Three con artists are on the make, and making millions. There's Silas, the leader, slick and self-assured; Liz, his glamorous...

World-weary agent Bernard Samson is losing control of his personal and professional life. Sent to Mexico to aid the defection of...

Deep in the South American jungle the MAMista Marxist revolutionaries are fighting a hopeless, protracted war against a dictator...

Long-suffering spy Bernard Samson has, against all the odds, enticed a Soviet agent to defect to London - but this proves to be...

A high-ranking scientist has been kidnapped. A secret British intelligence agency must find out why. But as the quarry is pursued...

A sunken U-Boat has lain undisturbed on the Atlantic ocean floor since the Second World War - until now. Inside its rusting hull,...

When Bernard Samson is woken in the middle of the night and discovers an injured man on his doorstep, he knows it will only bring...

December 1943. A group of US fighter pilots is camped at a windswept air base in Norfolk. Their job is to escort bombers over...

1963 Berlin is dark and dangerous. The anonymous hero of The IPCRESS File has been sent to help arrange the defection - in an...

Summer 1987, the final years of the Cold War. Bernard Samson has been sent to East Germany to make contact with a KGB defector,...

Paris in the 1960's caters for every taste, and nowhere more than at the private 'clinic' run by the enigmatic Monsieur Datt on...

Len Deighton's only collection of short stories explores the devastating experiences of ordinary soldiers across over two...

Ageing Hollywood star Marshall Stone is scared. Scared that the parts are drying up. Scared of being forgotten. So when he hears...

January 1942. Rommel's troops are at the gates of Egypt, soon to threaten Cairo itself. A spy has been leaking British secrets to...

With the Cold War drawing to a close in the East, Bernard Samson is still haunted by the events that have turned his life upside...