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Released from prison after serving his sentence for the assisted death of his wife, his health failing and his chronic impatience...

Alice and her husband, Jake, own a barbecue restaurant in Austin, Texas. Hardworking and popular in their community, they have a...

To the casual observer, the great enlightened city of Edinburgh, home of no-nonsense philosophers and cream teas, might appear...

Long-suffering child genius Bertie Pollock has much to contend with in the latest instalment of life at 44 Scotland Street, not...

In Espresso Tales, Alexander McCall Smith returns home to Edinburgh and the glorious cast of his own tales of the city, the...

An exciting and atmospheric novel which will continue to expand the audience for Simon Mawer

As Dee Denham, once a beautiful...

It is a wet day in Dorset, and walking to a luncheon party is Sir Edward Feathers QC, followed by two elderly friends: his...

Rob and Jamie are great friends from childhood. They have grown up together and become top climbers, but have since become...

Marigold Green calls herself 'hideous, quaint and barmy'. Other people calle her Bilgewater, a corruption of Bill's daughter....

Marnus is terrified he will not fulfil the expectations of his elite Afrikaner family who are certain of their superiority. But...

A wonderful bittersweet story about a misguided do-gooder

Eliza Peabody is one of those dangerously blameless women who...

Two Cultures. Two Families. Two People. Yasmin Ghorami has a lot to be grateful for: a loving family, a fledgling career in...

From plantation to plantation, Almeyda, a young slave girl, hears whispers, rumours of Palmares, a hidden settlement where...

From plantation to plantation, Almeyda, a young slave girl, hears whispers, rumours of Palmares, a hidden settlement where...

Anna is at a stage of her life when she's beginning to wonder who she really is. She has separated from her husband, her daughter...

Growing up after the war in Westmere, an English seaside town, Kitty has been sheltered by her parents, but meeting Danny changes...

A prize-winning tour de force when it came out in France, this brilliant translation of Violaine Huisman's 'witty, immersive...

Harlan Jane Eagleton is a faith healer, travelling to small towns, converting sceptics, restoring minds and bodies. But before...

An intense, searing novel exploring the damage of racial and sexual violence.

Eva Medina Canada sits in her psychiatric ward,...

Jane Peters is an adrift twenty-something by day, and a world-weary agony aunt by night. But when an office party goes too far,...

Owls Do Cry is the story of the Withers family: Francie, soon to leave school to start work at the woollen mills; Toby, whose...

Old Filth and The Man in the Wooden Hat told with bristling tenderness and black humour the stories of that Titan of the Hong...

When does sorrow turn to shame? When does love become labour? When does chance become choice? And when does fact become...

A septuagenarian contract killer, a chronic hypochondriac, two zombie-creating comedians, a good Samaritan and a man called...

In a world where people slaughter the innocent without mercy or retribution, how can we have faith in humanity, or the...

Measuring the World recreates the parallel but contrasting lives of two geniuses of the German Enlightenment - the naturalist and...

Cowan's beautifully drawn, multi award-winning first novel of love in the hostile climate of modern British society

When his...

Bestselling author Laline Paull returns with an immersive and transformative new novel of an ocean world - its extraordinary...

Panic began as so many things do in Carp, a poor town of twelve thousand people in the middle of nowhere: because it was summer,...

Wealthy Richard Walker has just died, leaving behind his country house full of rooms packed with the detritus of a lifetime. His...