Richard Yates was acclaimed as one of the most powerful, compassionate and accomplished writers of America's post-war generation....

Celebrated for her much-admired novels, including The Heat of the Day and The Death of the Heart, Bowen established herself in...

Discover Kingsley Amis's classic James Bond tie-in. First published in 1968, four years after Ian Fleming's death, this was the...

A mesmerising mystery story about friendship from the internationally bestselling author of Norwegian Wood and 1Q84

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'A very funny, bitterly intelligent novel...do read it' Malcolm Bradbury

Sefton Goldberg: mid-thirties, English teacher at...

Based on the life of cornet player Buddy Bolden, one of the legendary jazz pioneers of turn-of-the-twentieth-century New Orleans,...

Robert Poste's child is back at Cold Comfort Farm. But all is not well. Flora finds the farm transformed into a twee haven filled...

How does the novel represent human consciousness on the page?
In eleven sparkling essays on some of the great novelists of the...

A sensational short story collection from Britain's master of the genre.

Charting tantrums, funerals, pregnancy and love...

‘Let fly jib sheet! Slack away main! Fenders out!’

Dick and Dorothea – also known as The Ds – arrive in Norfolk all ready to...

Agatha Christie called her ‘a shining light’. Have you discovered Margery Allingham, the 'true queen' of the classic murder...

Roithamer, a character based on Wittgenstein, has committed suicide having been driven to madness by his own frightening powers...

The first novel by Joseph O'Connor, bestselling author of Star of the Sea and Shadowplay.

Eddie Virago, proud owner of the...

Doudna... , Sternberg...

Jennifer Doudna, the world-famous scientist behind CRISPR, 'one of the most monumental discoveries in biology' (New York Times),...

Braungart... , McDonough...

Michael Braungart and William McDonough propose a plan for our planet in this stunning new edition of their radical ecological...

Some things are easier to forget than others...
Detective Inspector Ray Lennox has fled to Miami to escape the aftermath of a...

Meet Fahner, the retired small-town doctor who resorts to the garden axe when his patience with his cruel wife runs out.

Meet...

A troubled young man commits the perfect crime - the murder of a vile pawnbroker whom no one will miss. Raskolnikov is desperate...

Denis Stone, a naive young poet, is invited to stay at Crome, a country house renowned for its gatherings of 'bright young...

Read the first biography of Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, whose music and career illuminate the journey and legacy of 1960s...

Orphaned young, Kate Morrison was her older brother Matt's protege, her curious fascination for pond-life fed by his passionate...

Vigna Paul, Casey...

1988 saw the birth of the internet. 2008 gave us bitcoin. Today, cybercurrencies are changing the world we live in. What would a...

Acknowledged as a masterpiece of materialist criticism, this book delves into the complex ways economic reality shapes the...

On a sultry afternoon in the summer of 1936 a young woman is witness to an attempted murder in a London hotel room.

Nina, a...

A man travels to his son's school to deal with the fallout of a violent attack and to make sure his son will not lose his college...

From the author of the bestselling Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafй comes this sassy, coming of age story, bound to...

An assault on the senses, part murder mystery, part metaphysical speculation; a fable for our times as catchy as a rock song...

When song-and-dance star Jimmy Sutane falls victim to a string of malicious practical jokes, there’s only one man who can get to...

Students and journalists, farmers and birdwatchers, ex-wives, adolescent lovers - and dancing girls. All ordinary people - or are...

From the international bestselling author of The Handmaid's Tale, Dancing Girls and Other Stories showcases Margaret Atwood's...