Sometimes – perhaps only for an instant – we fail to recognise a companion; for a moment their identity ceases to exist, and thus...

When Glasgow journalist Gerry Conway receives a phone call promising unsavoury information about Scottish Justice Minister Peter...

The Book of Chocolate Saints follows the unforgettable character Francis Newton Xavier and his journey towards salvation – or...

It is 1956 and Townrow is in Port Said - of these two facts he's reasonably certain. He has been summoned by the widow of his...

Felix Charlock is a world-famous inventor. His scientific genius draws him into the web of a sinister multinational corporation...

George Sherston develops from a shy and awkward child, through shiftless adolescence, to an officer just beginning to understand...

I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.

'Plain' orphan Jane Eyre is not...

As a child, Mevlut always felt like he was missing out. When he moves to Istanbul – ‘the centre of the world’ – he is immediately...

In the third magical Stella Starflake adventure the explorers meet gargoyles, sea-gremlins, mermaids, red devil squids – even a...

Opening like an early Tom Waits barstool-tale, The Motel Life tells the story of two brothers, Frank and Jerry Lee. Taking to the...

The destinies of three mysterious lost children entwine in this James Tait Black Memorial Prize-winning fable by the radical...

Caithleen 'Kate' Brady and Bridget 'Baba' Brennan are growing up in a repressive Irish village after World War II. Kate is a...

From the funniest voice in young fiction today, the fourth festive book in this irresistible series for young readers about...

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

Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at work in a range of genres and...

Hope Can be a Dangerous Thing…

She calls herself Hope Miller, but she has no idea who she really is.

Fourteen years ago,...

In Nocturnes, Kazuo Ishiguro explores ideas of love, music and the passing of time. From the piazzas of Italy to the ‘hush-hush...

From bestselling author and winner of the Blue Peter Best Story Book Award, Uki and the Outcasts is the first in a new trilogy...

Cyprus, 1953. As the island fights for independence from British colonial rule, ancient conflicts between Turkish and Greek...

After three years in the wilderness, hardboiled reporter Gerry Conway is back at his desk at the Glasgow Tribune. But three years...

'Malone', writes Malone, 'is what I am called now.' On his deathbed, and wiling away the time with stories, the octogenarian...

‘This book is a novel in the form of variations. The various parts follow each other like the various stages of a voyage leading...

Laughable Loves is a collection of stories that first appeared in print in Prague before 1968, but was then banned. The seven...

To celebrate his tenth birthday the whole Humphrey series has a smart new livery, repositioning him alongside perennial...

Sinuously constructed in four interlocking parts, Invisible opens in New York City in the spring of 1967 when twenty-year-old...

Not far from London, there is a village.

This village belongs to the people who live in it and to those who lived in it...

Venya is more interested in how much he and his colleagues can drink during the working day than in his job. Once he is fired, he...

This absorbing, ironic, bitter-sweet collection of nine stories marked Lorrie Moore’s talented debut. Sharp, cruel and funny, the...

An indelible exploration of the Cultural Revolution and how it shapes China today, Red Memory uncovers forty years of silence...

The baby is dead. It took only a few seconds.

When Myriam, a brilliant lawyer, decides to return to work, she and her husband...