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

Facts alone are wanted in life: the children at Mr Gradgrind's school are sternly ordered to stifle their imaginations and pay...

Discover Sherlock Holmes's most memorable and intriguing cases, including adventures with mysterious masked strangers, ingenious...

M.R. James wrote his ghost stories to entertain friends on Christmas Eve, and they went on to both transform and modernise a...

‘Well, Watson, we seem to have fallen upon evil days’

Sherlock Holmes: the quintessential British hero and the world's most...

A high-pitched laugh echoes in an empty church. Servants discover their master dead in his bed, the only sign of disturbance an...

Could drugs offer a new way of seeing the world? In 1953, in the presence of an investigator, Aldous Huxley took four-tenths of a...

Enjoy Helen Simpson's sharply funny, humane take on the everyday joys and struggles of motherhood in this perfect Mother's Day...

The hawk was everything I wanted to be: solitary, self-possessed, free from grief, and numb to the hurts of human life.
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Have you ever tried to learn another language? When Zhuang first arrives in London from China she feels like she is among an...

Edgar Allan Рое was a writer of uncommon talent; in 'The Murders in the Rue Morgue' he created the genre of detective fiction...

Why should one half be free to live, while the other is doomed to watch silently from the sidelines? In this visionary...

Karl Ove Knausgaard explores the day to day realities of fatherhood in the ultimate literary gift for dads.

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In the third volume of the Millennium series, Lisbeth Salander lies in critical condition in a Swedish hospital, a bullet in her...

Rediscover the favourite childhood classic.

What little girl can turn a whole household upside down and breathe new life back...

London, 1945. The capital is still reeling from the war. 14-year-old Nathaniel and his older sister Rachel are abandoned by their...

What do we do when we find ourselves trapped by our own thoughts or behaviour? Drawing on his twenty-five years' experience as a...

Salman Rushdie, a self-described ‘emigrant from one place and a newcomer in two’, explores the true meaning of home. Writing with...

Stopping to use a cash machine one evening, a man falls to the ground: dead. A taxi driver is brutally murdered by two teenage...

What does it take to be a family?

Julia has fallen deeply, unexpectedly in love. James is her second chance, and everything...

Detective Sigurdur Oli is in trouble.

After a school reunion exposes the chasm between his life and those of his much more...

Young and penniless, Kif Kehlmann, is rung in the middle of the night by notorious con man and corporate criminal, Siegfried...

The second collection of blazingly original short stories from Booker prize-winning, Sunday Times-bestselling author Ian...

The five, irreverant, satirical and imaginative stories contained in Diaboliad caused an uproar upon the book's first publication...

Two lost masterpieces of French literature gathered together in one volume for the first time.

From the author of the...

Everything changes for the four Mellow children the day they find a book called Pleasuring on the shelf.

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A gripping time-slip novel by the author of the 2022 Booker Prize-longlisted Treacle Walker

Here John Turner was cast away in...

'A masterpiece - tapped out in the lean, sharp prose that film work taught Greene to perfect' - Sunday Times

With an...

Re-jacketed in stunning new series style, The Innocent is a startlingly prescient novel from Booker prize-winning, Sunday...

Family secrets can be deadly…

Newly-weds Dan and Bea decide to escape London. Driving through France in their beaten-up car...