Mrs Wilkins and Mrs Arbuthnot, cowed and neglected by their husbands, make a daring plan: they will have a holiday. Leaving a...

A poetic meditation on life and death, by one of the most renowned and respected film-makers and intellectuals of our time.

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Wilfred Davis, quiet, retired, respectable widower, is sitting and sobbing on a park bench. He has lost his daughter and any...

Creepy. Peculiar. Fairy. Goblin. Liar. Weirdo. Crank. Genius.

No one knows what to make of Juliet Slater, not even her mother....

From the corner of a darkened room Joy Stone watches herself. As memories of the deaths of her lover and mother surface unbidden,...

From the infamous Glasgow slum, the Gorbals, Tam Clay chronicles a week in his life, in the last days before the demolishers move...

As a child, Luke’s mother often tells him the story of the Dumb House, an experiment on newborn babies raised in silence,...

It is off-season in a remote Highland sea port: twenty-one-year-old Morvern Callar, a low-paid employee in the local supermarket,...

At the age of sixteen, Marc Hamer left home with only a rucksack and started walking. By day, he observed the animals and birds....

A spellbinding travel book, exploring the psychology of walking, pilgrimage, solitude and escape.

'An extraordinary, dreamlike...

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

Meet Charlie Savage.

Charlie is a middle-aged Dubliner with an indefatigable wife, an exasperated daughter, a drinking buddy...

It is four years since the loss of a child broke her marriage, and Elizabeth is fiercely protective of her independence. She...

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

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When Lucy Mangan was little, stories were everything. They opened up different worlds and cast new light on this one.

She was...

Now We Have Your Attention makes sense of what is happening in British politics by taking a radically different perspective: the...

As America recovers from the Second World War, two families' journeys begin.

James Vincent, born in 1942 to an Irish-American...

London, 1941. The city is in blackout and an enemy is hiding in plain sight.

Jack Hoste has become entangled in a national...

Family secrets can be deadly…

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

Professor Chandra is about to embark on the trip of a lifetime.

In the moments after the bicycle accident, Professor Chandra...

On a bitterly cold winter’s afternoon, Michael and Caitlin escape their unhappy marriages to keep an illicit rendezvous. Once a...

The breathtaking short story collection from the Costa-shortlisted Irish writer

Three gunshots on the Irish border define the...

Blending fact with fiction, China Dream is an unflinching satire of totalitarianism. After decades of loyal service, Ma Daode, a...

Uncovering the mystery of her mother's disappearance as a child: Laura Cumming, prize-winning author and art critic, takes a...

A powerful, personal agenda-changing exploration of poverty in today's Britain.

'When every day of your life you have been...

A bittersweet novel of family and self-discovery from the bestselling, award-winning author of A Spool of Blue Thread

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A novel about the brutality of fame and what happens when fandom turns to obsession, from the Booker-shortlisted author of The...

An exploration of the invisible connections sustaining the entire natural world from the bestselling author of The Hidden Life of...

An odyssey of loss and salvation ranging across four generations of fathers and sons, in the finest tradition of American...

Perfect for fans of This Is Going to Hurt.

Grief. Anger. Joy. Fear. Distraction. Disgust. Hope.

All emotions we expect to...