On the banks of the Thames a baby is found floating. Rescued by the Dog-Woman, a giant strong enough to fling an elephant into...

As Caravaggio, the libertine of Italy's art world, and the loutish Spanish poet Quevedo aim to settle scores over the course of...

Selected as a Book of the Year 2016 in The Times, Sunday Times and The Economist, and one of the 10 Best Books of 2016 in the New...

A neurologist explores the very real world of psychosomatic illness.

Pauline first became ill when she was fifteen. What...

A puzzling phone call shatters a writer’s routine. An enigmatic female voice extends an invitation to take part in Documenta, the...

In the brief golden years before the outbreak of World War I, Rosie McCosh and her three very different sisters are growing up in...

This magnificent collection takes us to Glanbeigh, a small town in rural Ireland - a town in which the youth have the run of the...

Love is Angela Carter's fifth novel and was first published in 1971. With surgical precision it charts the destructive emotional...

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Agatha Christie called her ‘a shining light’. Have you discovered Margery Allingham, the 'true queen' of the classic murder...

When song-and-dance star Jimmy Sutane falls victim to a string of malicious practical jokes, there’s only one man who can get to...

'After Mark Cocker's glorious book, you will never look at a blackberry bush the same way again.'
Philip Hoare, New Statesman...

I was strong and he was not so it was me went to war to defend the Republic. I stepped across the border out of Indiana into...

'Salman Rushdie's greatest novel' Sunday Times

Moraes 'Moor' Zogoiby is the last in line of a crooked and fantastical dynasty...

These interlocking essays uncover art as an active force in the world - neither elitist or remote, present to those who want it,...

Avant-garde composer Albert Sanger lives in a ramshackle chalet in the Swiss Alps, surrounded by his 'Circus' of assorted...

Among the residents of a small Dorset town called Folly Down, an unlikely struggle between the forces of good and evil is taking...

‘Why shouldn’t we be detectives too?’

When Dick and Dorothea arrive in the Norfolk Broads all set for a blissful summer on the...

Discover Jane Austen's most beloved classic.

When Elizabeth Bennet meets Mr Darcy, she is repelled by his overbearing pride...

Jane Austen's Emma is her masterpiece, mixing the sparkle of her early books with a deep sensibility' Observer

Emma is young,...

'Hold your noise! Keep still, you little devil, or I'll cut your throat!'

Little orphan Pip scarcely imagines how a...

Gone Girl meets Mean Girls in this sharp and clever thriller from the publishers of The Never List

Hollywood It Girl Janie...

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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...

'Tender and surprising... A vivid and evocative tale' New York Times

Twenty-one-year-old Megan Cartwright has never been...

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.

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