In settings that range from small town Illinois to the Upper East Side of Manhattan, these stories are distinguished by Maxwell's...

A subtle and insightful story about boredom, passion, curiosity and memory from the Nobel Prize-winner Jose Saramago

A subtle...

A serial killer is terrorising the people of Bologna and rookie Detective Inspector Grazia Negro is determined to solve the case....

Enter Alms for Oblivion, Simon Raven's dazzling cycle of ten novels, all telling separate stories but at the same time linked...

Simon Raven's sequence of colourful and funny novels about the English upper-class misbehaving continues against a backdrop of...

The Alms for Oblivion sequence - an extraordinary series of murders, suicides, affairs, fighting, fires and at least one...

The twentieth century has been called 'the American Century'. Not since the days of the Roman emperors has there been such a...

Philip Roth's masterpiece provides a piercing look into the promises of prosperity, civic order and domesticity in twentieth...

‘No other voice has borne truer witness to the dark of our times’ George Steiner

After an embarrassing sexual misadventure...

A delightful journey through time and through the streets of one of the greatest cultural capitals in Europe.

A magnet for...

How did the good life go so wrong?

Amy Connell and Lan Honey are having the best childhood. When their families make the leap...

'Of the novelists who have made their bow since the war she seems to me to be the most remarkable' Raymond Mortimer

This is...

Some cases aren’t as cold as you’d think

Kurt Wallander’s life looks like it has taken a turn for the better when his offer on...

Brian Keenan went to Beirut in 1985 for a change of scene from his native Belfast. He became headline news when he was kidnapped...

Discover the world as you've never seen it before - through the eyes of animals

The Earth teems with sights and textures,...

Set in Oxford in the 1660s - a time and place of great intellectual, religious, scientific and political ferment - this...

This extraordinarily wide-ranging study looks at the dilemmas of life today and shows how they need not have arisen. Portraits of...

Young pilot Donald Ross has little in common with the Oxford don who has employed him on an expedition to the Arctic - and still...

Commissaire Adamsberg has left Paris for a police conference in London, accompanied by anglophile Commandant Danglard and...

A complex Shakespearean comedy of intertwined relationships, as nine closely linked characters search for love

After his...

Angels tells the story of two born losers. Jamie has ditched her husband and is running away with her two baby girls. Bill is...

Reissued with a beautiful new illustrative cover, two magical and timeless novellas from the Booker Prize-winning author of...

Anil's Ghost transports us to Sri Lanka, a country steeped in centuries of tradition, now forced into the late twentieth century...

"All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others. "

Mr Jones, the owner of Manor Farm, is a lazy drunk. The...

'The greatest love story I've ever read' Andrew Davies

Anna Karenina is a novel of unparalleled richness and complexity, set...

Anna is a beautiful, intelligent woman whose passionate affair with the dashing Count Vronsky leads her to ruin. But her story is...

Miserly and mysterious, the richest man in the Five Towns lives simply, ruling his household with an iron fist and a cruel...

In 1950, no mountain higher than 8,000 meters had ever been climbed. Maurice Herzog and other members of the French Alpine Club...

You might think I'd have grown out of getting myself into scrapes now that I'm half past sixteen. But between being vexed by my...

'It's a million times nicer to be Anne of Green Gables than Anne of nowhere in particular, isn't it?'

My dislikes: Being an...