A family story and the tale of a nation.

Ai Weiwei - one of the world's most famous artists and activists - weaves a...

Book Two of 1Q84 ended with Aomame standing on the Metropolitan Expressway with a gun between her lips.

She knows she is being...

'She's no good, that girl. Much too individualistic'

This is the story of Fenfang who, determined to carve out a life more...

A lieutenant writes of digging through bodies that have the consistency of Camembert cheese; a mother sends flower seeds to her...

Since the 1990 publication of her first collection, Four Bare Legs in a Bed, Helen Simpson has been hailed as one of the best...

Querry, a world famous architect, is the victim of a terrible attack of indifference: he no longer finds meaning in art or...

There is an old saying that when lovers fall out, a plane goes down. This is the story of one such plane.
Why did a Hercules...

Innocent or guilty. It's a matter of which lines you cross.

It's mid-winter and a body is discovered in a flat just outside...

Ebenezer Scrooge despises Christmas. He has no time for festivities or goodwill toward his fellow men and is only interested in...

A charming and clever account of one woman’s exploration of love, language and identity.

Twenty-three-year-old Zhuang (or Z as...

In a snow-covered village in Chechnya, eight-year-old Havaa watches from the woods as her father is abducted in the middle of the...

With the ink still wet on his diploma, the twenty-five-year-old Dr Mikhail Bulgakov was flung into the depths of rural Russia...

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

Karl Ove Knausgaard writes about his life with painful honesty. He writes about his childhood and teenage years, his infatuation...

A rampaging force of nature is wreaking havoc on the streets of Edinburgh, but has top shagger, drug-dealer, gonzo-porn-star and...

An illuminating portrait of a world in ferment after the First world War, and a man seeking an authentic life.

Early this...

The endlessly inventive and gripping story of one man's rebellion and passion

Patrick Doyle is a twenty-nine-year-old teacher...

A man investigating the death of a friend discovers the dangers of curiosity...

Ben du Toit is an ordinary, decent, harmless...

In this dark comedy of errors, Iris Murdoch portrays the mischief wrought by Julius, a cynical intellectual who decides to...

In 1918 Ernest Hemingway went to war. He volunteered for ambulance service in Italy, was wounded and twice decorated. Out of his...

Reissued in new series style to match Faulks's most recent novel Where My Heart Used to Beat, which was a major Sunday Times...

The brilliant new novel from the winner of the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize.

On the eve of Angolan independence, Ludo...

Grimm... , Hoffmann...

Eine frohliche Weihnachten - A Merry Christmas - made all the more joyful with these literary treats redolent of candle-lit...

The forerunner in its tone and themes to Greene's masterpiece Brighton Rock, A Gun for Sale is a noir thriller shot through with...

'The window panes reflected apples, reflected roses; all the leaves were green in the glass'

Nowhere are Virginia Woolf's...

'A quite extraordinary and unforgettable book' Ralph Straus

On the high seas of the Caribbean, a family of English children is...

The setting is a comedy club in a small Israeli town. An audience that has come expecting an evening of amusement instead sees a...

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

Tommy Carr was a...

At the age of sixteen, Marc Hamer left home with only a rucksack and started walking. By day, he observed the animals and birds....

‘I pretend I am a princess, so that I can try and behave like one’

Without her beloved father and miles from home, it is very...