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A transfixing parable of greed, goodness and an extraordinary miracle from the author of The Woman in Black.

Tommy Carr was a...

This is a book about leaving your wife and everything you know.

It is about fresh starts, about love, about friendship. It is...

Kate, a grieving, semi-alcoholic film student, invites an elderly woman to take part in an oral-history documentary. Jean...

When Janie Ryan is born, she is destined to be the latest in a long line of Aberdeen fishwives.

Ahead of her lies a life...

Artist Jed Martin emerges from a ten-year hiatus with good news. It has nothing to do with his broken boiler, the approach of...

Calcutta, 1967. Unnoticed by his family, Supratik has become dangerously involved in extremist political activism. Compelled by...

The restrictions of a wartime childhood in in London and subsequent post-war shortages have done little to enrich Timothy's early...

Eleven years old and on the cusp of puberty, Aron Kleinfeld is precocious, imaginative - the leader of his gang of friends. But...

From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Free Love and Late in the Day, discover a story of two lives stretched between two...

On a small island off the south coast of France, Robert Hendricks - an English doctor who has seen the best and the worst the...

This book is about learning to live.

Echoing Socrates’ statement that the unexamined life not worth living, psychoanalyst...

Michael Beard is a Nobel prize-winning physicist whose best work is behind him. A compulsive womaniser, Beard finds his fifth...

We last saw Henry Smart, his leg severed in an accident with a railway boxcar, crawl into the Utah desert to die - only to be...

Ora, a middle-aged Israeli mother, is about to celebrate her son Ofer's release from army service when he returns to the front...

Isamay's unusual name comes from her two very different grandmothers, Isa and May, who were both present at her birth and who...

Welcome to the village of Notwithstanding, where a lady dresses in plus fours and shoots squirrels, a retired general gives up...

Momik, the only child of two survivors, is brought up in Israel by a family seeking to ignore the past. No-one will explain to...

Enderby is a poet, social critic and Catholic. He may be found hiding in the lavatory where much of his best work is composed, or...

'One of the most productive, imaginative and risk-taking of writers... It is a clever, sexually explicit, fast-moving, full...

A teenage son shoots himself under his parents' bed. They sleep that night unaware he is lying dead beneath them.

A stranger...

'Our very best writer today' Milan Kundera

Sparkling with comic genius and narrative exuberance, I Served the King of England...

This ebullient, gallivanting novel encapsulates the world vision of the Czech Republic's best-loved author in one tumbling,...

'I had this vision very clearly of a book in which I would record my total experience, and I knew how it should sound: with all...

A powerful, moving book of secrets, longing and loss, from the Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Gathering.

If it hadn't...

Social worker Keith, separated from his wife and their teenage son, is floundering in a world of fraught sexual politics,...

'As exquisitely observed and quietly brilliant as the rest of Tyler's fiction' Guardian

Liam Pennywell has spent most of his...

‘Powerful… Poignant, bleak and haunting, this is a small masterpiece’ Sunday Mirror

Brother and sister, Ted and Rose Howker,...

Ben Joe is the only boy in a family of six sisters, Mama and Gram.

He is studying for a law degree in New York when he hears...

Leonard and Rosemary Cannon summon their middle-aged offspring, along with partners and children, to the family home in the Welsh...

In a small town in the middle of England, the aftermath of the Second World War brings change. For ambitious industrialist...