No man has ever loved a woman and not imagined her in the arms of someone else.

Felix Quinn calls himself a happy man. He...

A ‘magical, haunting’ (Philippa Gregory) novel of a tragic love affair in a threatened world

In 1649, Jan Brunt, a Dutchman,...

From the slums of Cape Town to the palaces of Algiers, through Pygmy villages where pineapples grow wild, to the Gulf of Guinea...

As a child Ludo is plucked out of the shantytown where he was born and transported to a world of languid, cosseted luxury. Now...

In August 1914 the two greatest navies in the world confronted each other across the North Sea. At first there were skirmishes,...

One of the most powerful monarchs in British history, Henry VIII ruled England in unprecedented splendour.

In this remarkable...

When the Khurana boys and their friend Mansoor set out for one of Delhi's markets, disaster strikes without warning. A 'small'...

An unnamed author waits in a bar in Tel Aviv on a stifling hot night. He is there to give a reading of his work but as he sits,...

The twentieth century has been called 'the American Century'. Not since the days of the Roman emperors has there been such a...

The prequel to the bestselling Suite Francaise

Paris 1918, Bernard Jacquelain returns from the trenches a changed man.

The...

Seventeen-year-old Juno Marlowe has just waved off to war the two young men she has loved for the best part of her life when the...

Born at the stroke of midnight at the exact moment of India's independence, Saleem Sinai is a special child. However, this...

Roddy Doyle's first ever collection of stories.

For the past few years Roddy Doyle has been writing stories for Metro Eireann,...

A moving tale of isolation, the painful loss of innocence and a eulogy for the traditional ways of life gone forever.

In 1948,...

Winner of the Booker Prize

The perfect gift for Valentine’s Day
Possession is an exhilarating novel of wit and romance, at...

A single mother's scandalous past returns to complicate the present in this deftly-plotted comedy by the beloved Mary...

Ten years on from The Woman Who Walked into Doors, Booker Prize-winning author, Roddy Doyle, returns to one of his greatest...

A gunman is terrorising young women.

What links these seemingly random murders? Is the marksman with a rifle the same person...

A strikingly powerful novel exploring the motivations of a suicide bomber in Israel, told through the eyes of her husband.

Now...

A tangled tale of falling in love - with three very different men.

Flora Trevelyan is a ten-year-old misfit, despised by her...

When, on the night of their wedding, Ned asks his new wife Rose to promise that she will never leave him, Rose is quick to give...

The first novel by Joseph O'Connor, bestselling author of Star of the Sea and Shadowplay.

Eddie Virago, proud owner of the...

In the summer of 1989, at Tel-Kedar, a small settlement in the Negev Desert, the long time love affair between Theo, a...

A compulsively readable account of an African country now virtually inaccessible to the outside world and one journalist's daring...

A sensational short story collection from Britain's master of the genre.

Charting tantrums, funerals, pregnancy and love...

From the author of the bestselling Suite Franзaise.

Translated by Sandra Smith, with an introduction by Patrick Marnham.

In...

Paul Rayment is on the threshold of a comfortable old age when a calamitous cycling accident results in the amputation of a leg....

'A brilliant hybrid of reportage, fiction, and historical fact that tells the stories of three black men whose tragic lives speak...

Philip Roth's writing career spans a remarkable five decades, a period that has seen him rise to become one of the greatest...

At college in 1980s Luton, Robbie Goulding, an Irish-born teenager, meets the elusive Fran Mulvey, an orphaned Vietnamese...