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More than a decade since her bestselling novel, The Space Between Us, Thrity Umrigar continues Bhima's unforgettable story in...

What if the person you thought you’d lost forever walked back into your life?

In 1987, four-year-old Stephen Nelson welcomes...

Every morning, Janet Brown goes to work cleaning offices. It calms her – cleanliness, neatness. All the things she’s unable to do...

Aunt Gerda – the good listener – fears the encroaching forgetfulness of old age. Her solution is to create an artwork that will...

Drawn from youth and older age, and spanning most of the twentieth century, this newly translated selection provides a thrilling...

In the deep winter snows of a Swedish hamlet, a strange young woman fakes a break-in at the house of an elderly artist in order...

Meet Liz: all she wants is some peace and quiet so she can read a book with her cat Henry, love of her life, by her side. But...

Five close friends in their 90s meet – as they have for decades –for their monthly ‘ladies’ lunch’ to puzzle over and laugh at...

‘If we want to understand what has been lost to time, there is no way other than through the exercise of imagination....

Unexpected tales from the master of short fiction

The Shielding of Mrs Forbes

Graham Forbes is a disappointment to his...

Here are Alan Bennett's four hugely admired, triumphantly reviewed and bestselling stories, brought together in one book for the...

Alan Bennett's classic story about Queen Elizabeth II

What would happen if the Queen became a reader of taste and discernment...

A childless island is no island at all.

Ingrid Marie Barroy has returned to the island that bears her name, bringing up her...

When black sheep Leo has a costly car accident, the Plumb siblings’ much-anticipated inheritance is suddenly wiped out. His...

In this gripping story, Paulo Coelho is on a quest for the ultimate in self-knowledge, wisdom and spiritual mastery.

Guided by...

A classic tale from Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, of a family torn apart by the arrival of Ben, their...

Winner of the McKitterick Prize for best first novel by an author aged over 40, and the Hawthornden Prize for imaginative...

The brand-new, hilarious, feel-good adventure from the internationally bestselling author of The Hundred Year-Old Man Who Climbed...

Ifemelu and Obinze are young and in love when they depart military-ruled Nigeria. In America, Ifemelu suffers defeats and...

A haunting tale of an Africa and an adolescence undergoing tremendous changes from the talented bestseller and award-winning...

Introducing the Collins Modern Classics, a series featuring some of the most significant books of recent times, books that shed...

'When her grandmother learned of Ashima's pregnancy, she was particularly thrilled at the prospect of naming the family's first...

The wonderful story collection from the author of Standard Deviation

Maya’s dog is dying, and she is planning to leave her...

Penny Rush has problems. Freshly divorced from her mobile knife-sharpener husband, she has returned home to Santa Barbara to deal...

Introducing the Collins Modern Classics, a series featuring some of the most significant books of recent times, books that shed...

Introducing the Collins Modern Classics, a series featuring some of the most significant books of recent times, books that shed...

Meet Nora Hughes – the overworked, underpaid, last bookish assistant standing. At least for now.

When Nora landed an editorial...

A hilarious warts-and-all novel about modern motherhood - and how having it all sometimes isn't what you think it might be

She...

Lay on the couch for a brief nap. Woke up an hour later, the witch trials book I'm reading stuck to one side of my face....

Wendy is lonely, misunderstood but coping. After her mum died, all she wants is to drive the 255 bus around Uddingston with her...