From the author of The Stolen Bicycle - longlisted for the International Man Booker Prize

On the island of Wayo Wayo, every...

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...

So how did such this extraordinary man get erased by history? Why are there no statues of 'Monsieur Humanity' as his troops...

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...

‘Wait, wait! Save us! What’ll we do?’

Simon is determined to become a painter when he grows up so he sets off to London to...

Or so Nancy thinks. Then the lake ices over completely and the Swallows and Amazons, along with Dick and Dorothea - 'the D's' -...

‘Why do they call him Black Jake? Is it because of his hair?’ Titty asked.
‘Because of his heart’ said Peter Duck

The...

It is 1948 and a young American couple arrive in France for a holiday, full of anticipation and enthusiasm. But the countryside...

No food, no water, no government, no obligation, no order.

Discover a chillingly powerful and prescient dystopian vision from...

At the heart of this novel lies the fictional village of Ulverton. It is the fixed point in a book that spans three hundred...

'Ahoy! Ahoy! Swallows! Ahoy!'

Have you ever sailed in a boat or built a camp? Have you caught trout and cooked it yourself?...

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

Marie's job as a museum guard at the National Gallery in London offers her the life she always wanted, one of invisibility and...

Meili, a young peasant woman born in the remote heart of China, is married to Kongzi, a village school teacher, and a distant...

When Kurt Wallander first appeared in Faceless Killers, he was a senior police officer, just turned forty, with his life in a...

The fifth novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Free Love, The Past and Late in the Day, Clever Girl is a tale of an...

After just a year of close, loving marriage, Ruth has been widowed. Her beloved husband, Ben, has been killed in a tragic...

Cyprus, spring 1972. Tensions are rising between the Greek South and the Turkish North. Within two years, the country will become...

From the author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time comes a novel about families and secrets

Two families....

You are about to discover the secrets of The Quick –

But first, reader, you must travel to Victorian England, and there, in...

A deeply moving collection of stories from the bestselling author of Star of the Sea

Ranging from urgently contemporary London...

Melding his native Irish sensibilities to those of his adopted west-coast Scotland, these tales attend to life’s big events: love...

The Alms for Oblivion sequence - an extraordinary series of murders, suicides, affairs, fighting, fires and at least one...

Simon Raven's sequence of colourful and funny novels about the English upper-class misbehaving continues against a backdrop of...

Enter Alms for Oblivion, Simon Raven's dazzling cycle of ten novels, all telling separate stories but at the same time linked...

Sir Humphrey du Val of the Table of Less Valued Knights - Camelot's least prestigious table, with one leg shorter than the others...

From one of Spain's greatest writers, a witty, moving novel about art, life, death and James Joyce.

SHORTLISTED FOR THE...