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A powerful and unique story about connection, showing that miracles can happen – even across a library circulation desk.

The...

''Do you ever wonder if you've lived the life you were meant to?' I ask her. She sighs, and dips her head. 'Even if I do, what...

Two people fall in love, not yet knowing where they have come from or where they are going.

They aren't sure if they have...

As Caravaggio, the libertine of Italy's art world, and the loutish Spanish poet Quevedo aim to settle scores over the course of...

Selected as a Book of the Year 2016 in The Times, Sunday Times and The Economist, and one of the 10 Best Books of 2016 in the New...

A puzzling phone call shatters a writer’s routine. An enigmatic female voice extends an invitation to take part in Documenta, the...

In the brief golden years before the outbreak of World War I, Rosie McCosh and her three very different sisters are growing up in...

This magnificent collection takes us to Glanbeigh, a small town in rural Ireland - a town in which the youth have the run of the...

‘When I finished Sara Baume’s new novel I immediately felt sad that I could not send it in the post to the late John Berger. He,...

You find me on a Tuesday, on my Tuesday trip to town. A note sellotaped to the inside of the jumble-shop window: COMPASSIONATE &...

Susan Frobisher and Julie Wickham are turning sixty. Susan has just discovered that her recently deceased husband was not only a...

Kennedy Marr is a novelist from the old school. Irish, acerbic, and a borderline alcoholic and sex-addict, his mantra is drink...

Meet the Bradleys.

In lots of ways, they're a normal family:
Zippy is sixteen and in love for the first time; Al is thirteen...

Still Life with Bread Crumbs begins with an imagined gunshot and ends with a new tin roof. Between the two is a wry and knowing...

White skin, green eyes, red hair... Blackass

Furo Wariboko - born and bred in Lagos - wakes up on the morning of his job...

Jon is 59 and divorced: a senior civil servant in Westminster who hates many of his colleagues and loathes his work, he is a good...

'Tender and surprising... A vivid and evocative tale' New York Times

Twenty-one-year-old Megan Cartwright has never been...

The intoxicating new novel from the number one bestselling author of The Outcast

London 1972. Luke is dazzled by the city. It...

Fidel and Raul Castro are in the hills, descending only to burn sugarcane plantations and recruit rebels.

Rachel K is in...

New York, 1980s

Alice Burns – a young book editor – is deep into a manuscript about the morass of family life. The...

Robin knew Paul wasn’t perfect. But he said they were so lucky to have found each other, and she believed it was true.

In the...

'An intricately crafted novel, sharp-eared, current and full of heart' Guardian, Books of the Year

A spirited...

The end of the world
Or the beginning…

On to the shores of Texas a raging sea coughs up two castaways: Jim and Natty,...

One morning Herman Mussert wakes up in a hotel room in Lisbon, where twenty years previously he slept with another man’s wife....

The novel that set the stage for his modern classic, The Satanic Verses, Shame is Salman Rushdie's unforgettable epic.

Omar...

The Hekes are a family in turmoil. A tyrannical, alcoholic, violent patriarch, an alcoholic, ever-trying-to-reform mother, and...

A kiss that just won't happen. A disco at the end of the world. A teenage goth on a terror mission. And OAP kiddie-snatchers, and...

At the heart of this novel lies the fictional village of Ulverton. It is the fixed point in a book that spans three hundred...

Marie's job as a museum guard at the National Gallery in London offers her the life she always wanted, one of invisibility and...

Meili, a young peasant woman born in the remote heart of China, is married to Kongzi, a village school teacher, and a distant...