An adventure classic of deep-sea volcanoes, giant squid and the renegade scientist Captain Nemo.

Professor Aronnax embarks on...

On the night of 10 February 1567 an explosion devastated the Edinburgh residence of Henry Stewart, Lord Darnley, second husband...

Read the sweeping and enchanting new novel from the author of The Giant's House

Bertha is an enigma to everyone in Salford,...

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,...

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...

'I think I could be a good woman if I had five thousand a year'


Becky Sharp is a poor orphan when she first makes friends...

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...

‘I wish, as well as everybody else, to be perfectly happy; but, like everybody else, it must be in my own way’

Discover the...

Discover the classic story behind the major new film

'Jane Austen's Emma is her masterpiece, mixing the sparkle of her early...

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...

Rant is the oral history of one Buster 'Rant' Casey, in which an assortment of friends, enemies, detractors, lovers and relations...

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...