A new re-issue of the cult swimming classic, a beautiful read filled with detailed description and powerful prose.

Haunts of...

Simon Serrailler faces his most dangerous challenge yet in the edge-of-your-seat thriller from Susan Hill, the bestselling author...

In a snow-covered village in Chechnya, eight-year-old Havaa watches from the woods as her father is abducted in the middle of the...

Edward VII, who gave his name to the Edwardian era but was always known as Bertie, was fifty-nine when he finally came to power...

From the author of Half of the Human Race (Channel 4 TV Book Club) comes an intricate and thrilling tale of love and conspiracy...

A kiss that just won't happen. A disco at the end of the world. A teenage goth on a terror mission. And OAP kiddie-snatchers, and...

Or so Nancy thinks. Then the lake ices over completely and the Swallows and Amazons, along with Dick and Dorothea - 'the D's' -...

It is 1948 and a young American couple arrive in France for a holiday, full of anticipation and enthusiasm. But the countryside...

At the heart of this novel lies the fictional village of Ulverton. It is the fixed point in a book that spans three hundred...

'"Stand firm'" said Peter, "and wave like mad!"'

They were not railway children to begin with. When their Father mysteriously...

"Ho! ho! I am the Toad, the motor-car snatcher, the prison-breaker, the Toad who always escapes!"

Tired of spring cleaning,...

In the doorway of an elegant New York apartment, blood seeps over silk negligee, over polished wood floors and plush carpet: a...

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

Meili, a young peasant woman born in the remote heart of China, is married to Kongzi, a village school teacher, and a distant...

When Kurt Wallander first appeared in Faceless Killers, he was a senior police officer, just turned forty, with his life in a...

After just a year of close, loving marriage, Ruth has been widowed. Her beloved husband, Ben, has been killed in a tragic...

A beguiling collection of short stories from award-winning author of Free Love, The Past and Late in the Day, Tessa...

You are about to discover the secrets of The Quick –

But first, reader, you must travel to Victorian England, and there, in...

Wars come and go across the headlines and television screens, but for those who survive them, scarred and scattered, they never...

A deeply moving collection of stories from the bestselling author of Star of the Sea

Ranging from urgently contemporary London...

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

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

28 June 1389, the Field of the Blackbirds. A Christian army made up of Serbs, Bosnians, Albanians and Romanians confront an...

A transfixing parable of greed, goodness and an extraordinary miracle from the author of The Woman in Black.

Tommy Carr was a...

This is a book about leaving your wife and everything you know.

It is about fresh starts, about love, about friendship. It is...

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

How do you catch a killer who doesn't exist?

One snowy night in the cathedral city of Lafferton, an old woman is dragged from...

When Janie Ryan is born, she is destined to be the latest in a long line of Aberdeen fishwives.

Ahead of her lies a life...

William Cavendish, the father of the first Earl, dissolved monasteries for Henry VIII. Bess, his second wife, was...

Bernard Walsh, agnostic theologian, has a professional interest in heaven. But when he travels to Hawaii with his reluctant...