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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It is Christmas Eve, and John Rivers is thinking about the past; about his sheltered upbringing; about an extraordinary time...

Sebastian Barnack, a handsome English schoolboy, is on bad terms with his socialist father who disapproves of his hedonistic...

There is a sequestered glen off the east coast of the Hudson, New York state, which has long continued under the sway of some...

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....

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'Most generally there is something about everything that you can be glad about, if you keep hunting long enough to find...

Set during the Hundred Years War, the protagonist of The White Company is a cloister-raised young nobleman who discovers that his...

Haruki Murakami's third novel, A Wild Sheep Chase is the mystery hybrid which completes the odyssey begun in Hear the Wind Sing...

Far in the future, the World Controllers have created the ideal society. Through clever use of genetic engineering, brainwashing...

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,...

Inspired by Mary Shelley's gothic classic Frankenstein, discover this audacious new novel about the bodies we live in and the...

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...

An enthralling story about desire, new love and the mysteries of science from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The...

Soap Saves Lives. But did you know that excessive use of soap and skin-care products is harming our health and the environment?...

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...

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