The Living

Erlendur has recently joined the police force as a young officer and immediately sinks into the darkness of...

'Now we make you ugly,' my mother said. 'The best thing you can be in Mexico is an ugly girl.'

On the mountainside in rural...

White skin, green eyes, red hair... Blackass

Furo Wariboko - born and bred in Lagos - wakes up on the morning of his job...

Jon is 59 and divorced: a senior civil servant in Westminster who hates many of his colleagues and loathes his work, he is a good...

The intoxicating new novel from the number one bestselling author of The Outcast

London 1972. Luke is dazzled by the city. It...

Fidel and Raul Castro are in the hills, descending only to burn sugarcane plantations and recruit rebels.

Rachel K is in...

'A spectacular, elegant, brilliant portrait of skulduggery, murder and sex in Renaissance Florence' Simon Sebag Montefiore,...

In a series of episodes set during and after the American Civil War Faulkner profiles the people of the South - who might...

Husband.
This is the story of an ordinary man who became the king of the largest slum in Rio, the head of a drug cartel and...

'An intricately crafted novel, sharp-eared, current and full of heart' Guardian, Books of the Year

A spirited...

The end of the world
Or the beginning…

On to the shores of Texas a raging sea coughs up two castaways: Jim and Natty,...

A Welsh community witnesses a strange vision: the huge spectre of a woman floating over a ridge. Is it a collective...

One morning Herman Mussert wakes up in a hotel room in Lisbon, where twenty years previously he slept with another man’s wife....

During the second world war Eric Lomax was forced to work on the notorious Burma-Siam Railway and was tortured by the Japanese...

In an age when a storm was evidence of God's wrath, pioneering meteorologists had to fight against convention and religious dogma...

Their god is War. And every god needs his Devil. The Religion

Malta, 1565. The greatest war the world has ever seen is...

It is not love at first sight for Frances and Bernard.

She finds him faintly ridiculous while he sees her as aloof. But after...

The Hekes are a family in turmoil. A tyrannical, alcoholic, violent patriarch, an alcoholic, ever-trying-to-reform mother, and...

Cave... , Rowell...

An explosive and revelatory account about the British lobbying industry and how it affects us all at every level of our...

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...

Ambitious and groundbreaking, Electric Shock tells the story of popular music, from the birth of recording in the 1890s to the...

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...

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