Mid-1930s, Northern France. A mysterious young girl named Anne Louvet arrives at the seedy Hotel du Lion d'Or in the small French...

Bruce Chatwin's bestselling novel traces the fortunes of the enigmatic and unconventional hero, Kaspar Utz. Despite the...

On the Black Hill is an elegantly written tale of identical twin brothers who grow up on a farm in rural Wales and never leave...

In 1812, Francisco Manoel da Silva, escaping a life of poverty in Brazil, sailed to the African kingdom of Dahomey, determined to...

In the last years of British rule in Jerusalem, a lonely, bookish Israeli boy befriends a British soldier in this tale of...

The Hill of Evil Counsel is a fusion of history and imaginative narrative, re-creating the twilight world of Jerusalem during the...

A man finds himself surrounded by women who are becoming paler, more silent and literally smaller; a woman's intimate life is...

Students and journalists, farmers and birdwatchers, ex-wives, adolescent lovers - and dancing girls. All ordinary people - or are...

Life Before Man explores the lives of three people imprisoned by walls of their own construction and in thrall to the tragicomedy...

A powerful and unique story about connection, showing that miracles can happen – even across a library circulation desk.

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The bestselling classic from a 'magnificent story-teller' (Independent on Sunday). Journey to the glittering seventeenth-century...

Two people fall in love, not yet knowing where they have come from or where they are going.

They aren't sure if they have...

On the banks of the Thames a baby is found floating. Rescued by the Dog-Woman, a giant strong enough to fling an elephant into...

As Caravaggio, the libertine of Italy's art world, and the loutish Spanish poet Quevedo aim to settle scores over the course of...

Selected as a Book of the Year 2016 in The Times, Sunday Times and The Economist, and one of the 10 Best Books of 2016 in the New...

A neurologist explores the very real world of psychosomatic illness.

Pauline first became ill when she was fifteen. What...

A puzzling phone call shatters a writer’s routine. An enigmatic female voice extends an invitation to take part in Documenta, the...

In the brief golden years before the outbreak of World War I, Rosie McCosh and her three very different sisters are growing up in...

Rivalry, unruly desire and ugly secrets poison a family holiday in this gripping novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author...

Manuel is growing up in Franco's Spain. He adores his elder sister, Maria, and they are watched over by their mother, who enjoys...

This magnificent collection takes us to Glanbeigh, a small town in rural Ireland - a town in which the youth have the run of the...

Love is Angela Carter's fifth novel and was first published in 1971. With surgical precision it charts the destructive emotional...

This sharp, stunning debut novel and Irish bestseller about grief, loss and redemption is your next literary obsession

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Sara has never left Sweden but at the age of 28 she decides it’s time. She cashes in her savings, packs a suitcase full of books...

Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs. The Astounding Interconnectedness of the UniverseThe most thrilling, genre-busting, unlikely...

Agatha Christie called her ‘a shining light’. Have you discovered Margery Allingham, the 'true queen' of the classic murder...

When song-and-dance star Jimmy Sutane falls victim to a string of malicious practical jokes, there’s only one man who can get to...

Finding himself the victim of a botched kidnapping attempt, Val Gyrth suspects that he might be in a spot of trouble. Unexpected...

'After Mark Cocker's glorious book, you will never look at a blackberry bush the same way again.'
Philip Hoare, New Statesman...

A great thinker's final testament: a characteristically wise and forthright collection of essays from the author of Postwar and...