‘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...

Bursting with rich descriptive detail, discover the classic world of Treasure Island.

Fifteen men on the dead man's chest -...

Read this 19th-century childhood adventure story that confronts the reality of racism in America.

'There comes a time in every...

When it isn't prison, it's hell.

Or at least that's the heartfelt belief of conscripts Jonathan Browne and Mike 'Ginger'...

A young boy, Victor, is collected from school by a stranger in a bowler hat - the stranger says he has won Victor in a game of...

'Stella Gibbons is the Jane Austen of the twentieth century' The Times

Set in wartime London, Westwood tells the story of...

The Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Philip Roth turns his gaze on 30s and 40s America in this magnificent successor to American...

The Complete Stories gathers together Anita Desai's short story collections Diamond Dust and Games at Twilight and the novellas...

Trapped within a waterfall on the wild Franklin River, Tasmanian river guide, Aljaz Cosini, lies drowning. As the tourists he has...

Nineteen tales of growing up, wising up, and falling in love, spanning more than three decades of prize-winning work by a North...

Welcome to the Palladium, Brickley. Once the grandest music-hall south of the river, now its peeling foyer is home to stale...

In the ninety-ninth district of a sprawling labour camp, the Author, Musician, Scholar, Theologian and Technician - and hundreds...

I read somewhere that the decision to emigrate comes from a need to breathe.

The hope of a better life is stronger than any...

Read the sweeping and enchanting new novel from the author of The Giant's House

Bertha is an enigma to everyone in Salford,...

Once a successful surgeon, Frederick Welin now lives in self-imposed exile on an island in the Swedish archipelago. Nearly twelve...

Max Glickman is son to an atheist boxer, Jack 'The Jew' Glickman, and a glamorous card-playing mother. Growing up in the peace...

When Maxudov's bid to take his own life fails, he dramatises the novel whose failure provoked the suicide attempt. To the...

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

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

Tibor Fischer's hilarious first novel follows the adventures of two young Hungarian basketball players through the turbulent...

Bright, photographic, evocative new covers for Greene's backlist, to celebrate one of the keystone writers of the Vintage...

Rennie Wilford, a young jounalist running from her life, takes an assignment to a Caribbean island and tumbles into a world where...

Drawing on the author's personal experiences of the horrors of civil war as a young doctor, this title takes place in Kiev, 1918,...

Birdsong is a mesmerising story of love and war spanning three generations between WW1 and present day.

1910. Amiens, Northern...

'I can think of no finer writer to have beside me while Italy explodes, Britain burns, while the world ends' Salman...

Soap Saves Lives. But did you know that excessive use of soap and skin-care products is harming our health and the environment?...

The lives of two close-knit couples are irrevocably changed by an untimely death in this Sunday Times bestselling novel

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A devastating coming-of-age story about a woman caught in the wrong era, from the bestselling author of The Woman in...

Trudy has betrayed her husband, John. She's still in the marital home – a dilapidated, priceless London townhouse – but not with...

A seaside pier collapses.
An expedition to Mars goes terribly wrong.
A thirty-stone man is confined to his living room.
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Henry Dunbar, the once all-powerful head of a global media corporation, is not having a good day. In his dotage he handed over...