'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...

I was strong and he was not so it was me went to war to defend the Republic. I stepped across the border out of Indiana into...

'Salman Rushdie's greatest novel' Sunday Times

Moraes 'Moor' Zogoiby is the last in line of a crooked and fantastical dynasty...

If you could be invisible, what would you do? The chances are that it would have something to do with power, wealth or sex....

These interlocking essays uncover art as an active force in the world - neither elitist or remote, present to those who want it,...

Avant-garde composer Albert Sanger lives in a ramshackle chalet in the Swiss Alps, surrounded by his 'Circus' of assorted...

Among the residents of a small Dorset town called Folly Down, an unlikely struggle between the forces of good and evil is taking...

‘Why shouldn’t we be detectives too?’

When Dick and Dorothea arrive in the Norfolk Broads all set for a blissful summer on the...

Discover Jane Austen's most beloved classic.

When Elizabeth Bennet meets Mr Darcy, she is repelled by his overbearing pride...

Jane Austen's Emma is her masterpiece, mixing the sparkle of her early books with a deep sensibility' Observer

Emma is young,...

George Gissing's best-known novel shows us the literary underbelly of Victorian England, and the writers striving to forge their...

'Hold your noise! Keep still, you little devil, or I'll cut your throat!'

Little orphan Pip scarcely imagines how a...

Gone Girl meets Mean Girls in this sharp and clever thriller from the publishers of The Never List

Hollywood It Girl Janie...

The Living

Erlendur has recently joined the police force as a young officer and immediately sinks into the darkness of...

'Now we make you ugly,' my mother said. 'The best thing you can be in Mexico is an ugly girl.'

On the mountainside in rural...

White skin, green eyes, red hair... Blackass

Furo Wariboko - born and bred in Lagos - wakes up on the morning of his job...

Jon is 59 and divorced: a senior civil servant in Westminster who hates many of his colleagues and loathes his work, he is a good...

'Tender and surprising... A vivid and evocative tale' New York Times

Twenty-one-year-old Megan Cartwright has never been...

The intoxicating new novel from the number one bestselling author of The Outcast

London 1972. Luke is dazzled by the city. It...

Fidel and Raul Castro are in the hills, descending only to burn sugarcane plantations and recruit rebels.

Rachel K is in...

'A spectacular, elegant, brilliant portrait of skulduggery, murder and sex in Renaissance Florence' Simon Sebag Montefiore,...

In a series of episodes set during and after the American Civil War Faulkner profiles the people of the South - who might...

Husband.
This is the story of an ordinary man who became the king of the largest slum in Rio, the head of a drug cartel and...

'An intricately crafted novel, sharp-eared, current and full of heart' Guardian, Books of the Year

A spirited...

The end of the world
Or the beginning…

On to the shores of Texas a raging sea coughs up two castaways: Jim and Natty,...

A Welsh community witnesses a strange vision: the huge spectre of a woman floating over a ridge. Is it a collective...

In Falling Out of Time, David Grossman has created a genre-defying drama - part play, part prose, pure poetry - to tell the story...

'Two Surface-dwellers. Two! He's a Fattypuff and you're a Thinifer. There's no doubt about it!'

This is the tale of two...

One morning Herman Mussert wakes up in a hotel room in Lisbon, where twenty years previously he slept with another man’s wife....