A detective under arrest. A killer running free. A dark and gripping thriller set in the Stockholm Archipelago, from an...

Short and oddly built, with a head too big for his body, extremely short-sighted, unable to stay still, dressed in colourful...

'Look for your sister after each dive. Never forget. If you see her, you are safe.'

This is the story of Hana and her little...

West of Eden is the definitive story of Hollywood, told, in their own words, by the people on the inside: Lauren Bacall, Arthur...

'There are times, though, that no matter how much food I eat, I find the food does nothing for me, like I am hungry for my...

With superb skill and feeling, Graham Greene retraces the experiences and encounters of his extraordinary life. His restlessness...

Upstate is a funny, moving family drama from one of the world’s most influential literary critics.

Alan Querry, a successful...

The guns are silent. The dead are not.
1919. On the battlefields of northern France, the guns of the Great War are silent....

A man is blown up in a high-security prison.
A major drugs baron comes under attack.
A massacre takes place in a dark...

In Titus Awakes the 77th Earl of Groan leaves the crumbling castle of Gormenghast and finds the larger world even stranger than...

In 1992, in peaceful Southern Sweden, Louise Akerblom, an estate agent, pillar of the Methodist church, wife and mother,...

Rediscover Gladys Mitchell – one of the 'Big Three' female crime fiction writers alongside Agatha Christie and Dorothy L....

Martin Amis first wrote about September 11 a week later in a piece for The Guardian beginning, 'It was the advent of the second...

A motherless girl grows up in isolated luxury, hidden from the world by her wealthy father. She believes their life together is...

The Ds can't wait to go and stay with Nancy and Peggy in the Lake District during the summer holidays. But when the Amazons’...

Semyon is disturbed. He has woken up in the living room with blood on his shirt, an angry wife and no idea where he was the night...

The most ambition and exciting novel yet from the Booker shortlisted author of C and Satin Island.
Bodies in motion. Birds, bees...

It lies somewhere beneath the snow, high in the Dolomites: Nazi gold, tainted with the blood of murdered men. Only a few know its...

Jenny has devoted her life to her husband, the famous naturalist Wilkie Walker. But this year, as winter comes on, Wilkie seems...

A book about family, selfishness and compassion on Ireland’s Atlantic coast, from the Booker Prize-winner.

Hanna, Dan,...

'In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars'
The world and...

‘People will die,’ says the panic-stricken woman outside police headquarters.

She refuses to speak to anyone besides...

Four nuns and a fifth woman are killed in a savage night-time attack in Africa. A year later, Inspector Kurt Wallander...

Sweden, winter, 1991. Inspector Kurt Wallander and his team receive an anonymous tip-off. A few days later a life raft is washed...

Rediscover Gladys Mitchell – one of the 'Big Three' female crime fiction writers alongside Agatha Christie and Dorothy L....

A frozen body is discovered in the icy depths of Langjokull glacier.

The victim: a businessman missing for thirty...

'He reads for his own pleasure rather than to impart knowledge or correct the opinions of others'.
So Virginia Woolf described...

Min works at the BBC as an audio engineer, where she is struggling to replicate the sound of a heartbeat. At home, other matters...

Sweden's elite are under attack.

Two rich and powerful men have been murdered, and in the face of mounting panic - and media...

Celebrating the finest works of the Harlem Renaissance, one of the most important Black arts movements in modern history.
'Why...