At his high school basketball try-outs, nerdy sports-obsessed Brian Blum meets new kid Marcus Hayes. As a sportswriter, Brian...

London, New Year’s Eve. Snow falls on a Georgian mansion, vibrating with the festivities of a masquerade ball within. Middle-aged...

A sinking boat…
A girl in disguise…
A disappearing sea…

When Fortune Sharpe carves a boat from a tree with her beloved...

Succumb to a churchman's apocalyptic vision in this prophetic tale by the radical Nobel Laureate and author of Lord of the Flies,...

In 1982, East Germany's fearsome secret police - convinced that writers were embedding subversive messages in their work -...

Capturing the texture of life growing up in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro, the stories in The Sun on My Head tell us of days...

On one side of the underwater street is the remains of a house . . . It's beautiful here, and eerie, a lost kingdom, a ghost...

The Tastemaker charts the singular life of a man who has been at the beating heart of music's most iconic moments for over sixty...

After many years away, Andreas returns to his childhood home: a small island off the Norwegian coast where he grew up with his...

A stunning return from the prize-winning and best-selling author ofThe Secret Scripture

Jack McNulty is a ‘temporary...

Welcome to a fantasy world where edible magic is the hottest commodity, traded between those who can pay or - in the case of Jude...

One of the most acclaimed novels of recent times, The Underground Man is the fictionalised diary of a deeply eccentric English...

Grace Sachs, a happily married therapist with a young son, thinks she knows everything about women, men and marriage. She is...

The Unnamable – so named because he knows not who he may be – is from a nameless place. He speaks of previous selves (‘all these...

The debut novel from award-winning author of Black Earth City: A Year in the Heart of Russia.

When twenty-two-year-old Gerty...

On the whole, it was easier than I had expected. Only once did I feel myself at risk. That was when the Inspector suddenly...

Kavanagh begins his time patrolling the Wall.
If he's lucky, if nothing goes wrong, he only has to do two years of this. 729...

Siegfried Sassoon is one of the First World War poets whose poetry has defined a generation. He published most of his war poetry...

A Russian woman named Lara arrives in Afghanistan at the house of Marcus Caldwell, an Englishman and widower living in the shadow...

Britain, 1962

'Who are you?' I asked.
'You don't know who I am? You mean, it's not been on the news?'
The girl glanced from...

Following the end of the First World War, Eneas McNulty joins the British-led Royal Irish Constabulary. With all those around him...

A young Italian scholar is captured by pirates between Venice and Naples. After being put up for auction at the Istanbul slave...

Here today, up and off to somewhere else tomorrow!

Toad has always been a silly sort of fellow. But when his latest obsession...

For almost a decade Rachel Caine has turned her back on home and worked in Idaho at a reservation for wolves. As one of the few...

The Woman in the Purple Skirt is being watched. Someone is following her, always perched just out of sight, monitoring which...

Narrated by the twin voices of the artist Butcher Bones, and his ‘damaged two-hundred-and-twenty-pound brother’ Hugh, Theft: A...

Two sisters. Four nights. One City.

April, 1941. Belfast has escaped the worst of the war – so far. Following the lives of...

Junot Diaz’s new collection, This Is How You Lose Her, is a collection of linked narratives about love – passionate love, illicit...

Ross Raymond and Johnny McLaughlin are two fanboys dedicated to the Airdrie post-punk scene of the early '80s - the glory years -...

Here we meet Tambudzai, living in a youth hostel in downtown Harare after leaving a stagnant job. Proud, and yearning for...