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.

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One of the most acclaimed debuts of the year - a rumbustuous, brilliant novel about Sri Lanka, cricket and the search for a...

A transfixing parable of greed, goodness and an extraordinary miracle from the author of The Woman in Black.

Tommy Carr was a...

This is a book about leaving your wife and everything you know.

It is about fresh starts, about love, about friendship. It is...

Kate, a grieving, semi-alcoholic film student, invites an elderly woman to take part in an oral-history documentary. Jean...

How do you catch a killer who doesn't exist?

One snowy night in the cathedral city of Lafferton, an old woman is dragged from...

When Janie Ryan is born, she is destined to be the latest in a long line of Aberdeen fishwives.

Ahead of her lies a life...

Calcutta, 1967. Unnoticed by his family, Supratik has become dangerously involved in extremist political activism. Compelled by...

Anil's Ghost transports us to Sri Lanka, a country steeped in centuries of tradition, now forced into the late twentieth century...

William Cavendish, the father of the first Earl, dissolved monasteries for Henry VIII. Bess, his second wife, was...

A German businessman is the third to die: murdered in a seaside guesthouse.

A note pinned on his body is addressed to Colonel...

Granite, a tough composite of quartz, feldspar and mica, is the stuff of Dartmoor, the most formidable of the five granite bosses...

Written in alternating chapters, W or the Memory of Childhood, tells two parallel tales, in two parts. One is a story created in...

Eleven years old and on the cusp of puberty, Aron Kleinfeld is precocious, imaginative - the leader of his gang of friends. But...

From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Free Love and Late in the Day, discover a story of two lives stretched between two...

The Northmen’s Fury tells the Viking story, from the first pinprick raids of the eighth century to the great armies that left...

Mia Holl lives in a state governed by The Method, where good health is the highest duty of the citizen. Everyone must submit...

Julia Blackburn and her husband moved to a little house in the mountains of northern Italy in 1999. She arrived as a stranger but...

Meet Fahner, the retired small-town doctor who resorts to the garden axe when his patience with his cruel wife runs out.

Meet...

Terrified, a young prisoner in the Second World War closes his eyes and pictures himself going out to bat on a sunlit cricket...

The once-great city of Bohane on the west coast of Ireland is on its knees, infested by vice and split along tribal lines. There...

September 1613.

In Belvoir Castle, the heir of one of England's great noble families falls suddenly and dangerously ill. His...

This book is about learning to live.

Echoing Socrates’ statement that the unexamined life not worth living, psychoanalyst...

Nothing experienced in human history, before or since, eclipses the terror, tragedy and scale of the Black Death, the disease...

A groundbreaking and fascinating biography of England's most famous queen, viewed through the women who influenced her...