The powerful debut from 2020 Booker Prize shortlisted author of The Shadow King

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 1974 - the eve of a...

'I had this vision very clearly of a book in which I would record my total experience, and I knew how it should sound: with all...

A powerful, moving book of secrets, longing and loss, from the Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Gathering.

If it hadn't...

Social worker Keith, separated from his wife and their teenage son, is floundering in a world of fraught sexual politics,...

‘Powerful… Poignant, bleak and haunting, this is a small masterpiece’ Sunday Mirror

Brother and sister, Ted and Rose Howker,...

Simon Axler is one of America's leading classical stage actors, but his talent - his magic - has deserted him. All the...

Famous author Olive Wellwood writes a special private book, bound in different colours, for each of her children. In their...

It began with a spark...

A house is burning. Its six tenants include a failed priest, a naturalist, a neurosurgeon and a...

We are poised on the edge of discovery in particle physics (the study of the smallest objects we know of) and cosmology (the...

Summer of 1911. English society is on the brink of change. The streets of London ring with cheers for a new king's coronation and...

Liverpool, 1939. Lonely historian Tom Baines is at work on a study of the city's architectural past but the ominous news from...

The mysterious death of a young woman on an Australian farm reveals a bittersweet story of doomed wartime romance amidst a family...

Nevil Shute was a power and a pioneer in the world of flying long before he began to write the stories that made him a...

Through a series of mishaps, Henry Warren, a recently divorced City financier, ends up in hospital in a Northern town ruined by...

When Johnny Pascoe attempts to rescue a sick girl from the Tasmanian outback his plane crashes leaving him dangerously injured....

During the Second World War, Peter Marshall's crew become one of the most successful bombing teams in their Oxfordshire airbase....

Young pilot Donald Ross has little in common with the Oxford don who has employed him on an expedition to the Arctic - and still...

Jerry Chambers, a fresh-faced young pilot, mistakenly sinks a British submarine. He is reprimanded and sent to a remote posting...

It is the rainy season. Drunk and delirious, an old man lies dying in the Queensland bush. In his opium-hazed last hours, a...

A young English woman leaves her ageing parents to visit friends living in the Australian outback. She falls in love, both with...

John Turner, a young man with a chequered past, has been told he has just one year to live. He decides to use his time in search...

Discover a classic adventure from the author of A Town Like Alice and On the Beach.

Keith Stewart is an ordinary man. However,...

Nevil Shute wrote this prophetic novel just before the start of the Second World War. In it he describes the devastation that...

Chester Royde, an American millionaire, travels to Scotland with his new bride Carrie and sister Myrtle, to find out more about...

When Nell Sely moves from sleepy Dorset to Hampstead she leaves behind a childhood of dull teas and oppressive rules for the...

This gossipy account of Louis XIV is a clear and fascinating historical biography from Nancy Mitford.

During his reign Louis...

In settings that range from small town Illinois to the Upper East Side of Manhattan, these stories are distinguished by Maxwell's...

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,...