'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...

What would a fair and equal society actually look like?

Imagine a world with no banks. No stock market. No tech giants. No...

When inspiration leads Theodore Gumbril to design a type of pneumatic trouser cushion to ease the discomfort of sedentary life,...

A dystopian classic

In February 2108, the New Zealand Rediscovery Expedition reaches California at last. It is over a century...

A dazzling, provocative debut story collection from celebrated Indonesian writer Intan Paramaditha, putting fierce female...

'For all its excellence as a social panorama and a sketch of a marriage, it is as a picture of a man destroyed by drink and pride...

A dark-skinned young boy is found dead, frozen to the ground in a pool of his own blood. The boy's Thai half-brother is missing;...

The author of Horizon's classic work explores the Arctic landscape and the hold it continues to exert on our imagination.
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What do you and an ancient philosopher have in common? It turns out much more than you might think…

Aristotle was an...

First published on the anniversary of Kurt Vonnegut's death, Armageddon in Retrospect is a collection of twelve new writings - a...

In a near-future London, Sappho, Picasso and Handel each set upon the same plan - to flee the city by train. Finding themselves...

These interlocking essays uncover art as an active force in the world - neither elitist or remote, present to those who want it,...

Arthur and George grow up worlds and miles apart in late nineteenth-century Britain: Arthur in shabby-genteel Edinburgh, George...

The death and burial of Addie Bundren is told by members of her family, as they cart the coffin to Jefferson, Mississippi, to...

Sinead Hynes is a tough, driven, funny young property developer with a terrifying secret.

No-one knows it: not her fellow...

Kate, a grieving, semi-alcoholic film student, invites an elderly woman to take part in an oral-history documentary. Jean...

Marie's job as a museum guard at the National Gallery in London offers her the life she always wanted, one of invisibility and...

On the hottest day of the summer of 1934, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis sees her sister Cecilia strip off her clothes and...

The publication of Atonement cemented Ian McEwan’s reputation as one of the most exciting and accomplished writers of his...

'The best thing he has ever written' Observer


Discover the modern classic that has sold over two million copies.

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In the first month of the First World War the Russian campaign against the Germans creaks into gear. Crippled by weak, indecisive...

By the author of Stoner, the surprise international bestseller

After the brutal murder of his great-uncle, Julius Caesar,...

How do we choose between what is fair and just, and what our debtors demand of us? Yanis Varoufakis was put in such a dilemma in...

Australia celebrated one hundred years as a nation in 2001. This book - part history, part travelogue, part memoir - tells the...

Autumn begins with a letter Karl Ove Knausgaard writes to his unborn daughter. He adds one short piece each day, describing the...

Nik Cohn began to write this book in the late 1960s with a simple purpose: to catch the feel, the pulse of Rock. Nobody had...

From the author of It Can't Happen Here, a satirical portrait of a town obsessed by capitalism and the 'values' of the...

After her husband becomes violent, Frederica Potter flees with her young son to London. There, she secures a teaching position in...

Babies: our biggest mystery and our most natural consequence, our hardest test and our enduring love. Anne Enright describes the...

The Bonfire of the Vanities author, Tom Wolfe, ingeniously dissects the turbulent heart of America’s racial vortex in this...