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Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me is a gripping and moving meditation on the hold that the dead have over the living, by Javier...

Dark Back of Time is a compelling story of the way in which reality blurs into fiction by Javier Marias, whose highly-anticipated...

Margaret Drabble is one of the major literary figures of her generation. In this collection of her complete short fiction from...

'It is quite an experience to be locked up all by yourself in any size room' says the anonymous narrator of Hubert Selby Jr.'s...

Harry White is the man other men want to be: admired by his peers, talented, rich, and desired by countless women. His steady...

The short stories of Kingsley Amis - the great master of post-war comic prose - are dark, playful, moving, surprising and...

In That Uncertain Feeling by Kingsley Amis, competition is stiff for the position of sub-librarian in Aberdarcy Library. For John...

In Kingsley Amis's Take A Girl Like You, twenty year old Jenny Bunn is supernally beautiful and stubbornly chaste, which is why...

At Tuppenny-hapenny Cottage in the English countryside, five elderly people live together in rancorous disharmony. Adela Bastable...

In Kingsley Amis's Difficulties With Girls, Jenny Bunn and Patrick Standish have settled into London life with their troubled...

Asher Lev is a gifted loner, the artist who painted the sensational Brooklyn Crucifixion. Into it he poured all the anguish and...

As far as Benjamin Braddock's parents are concerned, his future is sewn up. Now he has graduated from college, he will go to Yale...

David Schearl arrives in New York in his mother's arms to begin his new life as an immigrant in the 'Golden Land'. David is hated...

A man of devilish charm and enterprising spirit, Dougal Douglas is employed to revitalize the ailing firm of Meadows, Meade &...

A masterly story of myth, rebellion, love, friendship and betrayal from one of Africa's great writers, Ngugi wa Thiong'o's A...

A riotously dysfunctional portrait of one all-American family and its diabolical matriarch - by one of America's most acclaimed...

'No man is free of his own history'

Hartmann and Fibich came to England on the kindertransport. As orphans of the war they...

Joshua Ferris's dazzling novel To Rise Again at a Decent Hour is about the meaning of life, the certainty of death, and the...

The bestselling author of Getting Rid of Matthew and My Sweet Revenge tells a story of discovered secrets and the price of...

The bestselling author of Getting Rid of Matthew and My Sweet Revenge tells the story of a woman living in her sister's...

Henderson Dores is an Englishman in New York - and completely out of his depth.

He should be concentrating on his job as an...

From the desks of Nigeria's newsrooms, two journalists are recruited to find the kidnapped wife of a British oil engineer. Zaq,...

For the four characters at the heart of Will Self's brilliantly acute novel of our times the five hundred-quid worry bead in...

Dawn French, number one bestelling author of A Tiny Bit Marvellous returns with Oh Dear Silvia.

Everyone knows the real...

From the internationally bestselling author Lesley Pearse comes the compulsive page-turner about a girl searching for the truth,...

North London in the twenty-first century: a place where a son will swiftly adopt an old lady and take her home from hospital to...

Lentils, free love, radical politics and family truths . . . Various Pets Alive and Dead is the wonderfully funny fourth novel...

You're beautiful, Johnny told her.

So, full of hope, seventeen-year-old Felicia crosses the Irish Sea to England to find her...

In Reading Turgenev an Irish country girl is trapped in a loveless marriage with an older man, but finds release through secret...

Summer, 1921. Eight-year-old Lucy Gault clings to the glens and woods above Lahardane - the home her family is being forced to...