The London winter of 1947 is as cold as St Petersburg during the Revolution. Albertine, the wife of a British army officer often...

An epic story of peoples, cultures and adventures among the world's highest mountains: here Jesuit missionaries exchanged...

The first instalment in the thrilling new crime series from worldwide bestseller Arnaldur Indridason

The Past

In wartime...

The crime: Reykjavik, August 1941. When a travelling salesman is found murdered in a basement flat, the police initially suspect...

Shark Drunk is, in part, the tale of two men in a very small boat on the trail of a very big fish. It is also a story of...

What do you and an ancient philosopher have in common? It turns out much more than you might think…

Aristotle was an...

Food and travel writer Michael Booth and his family embark on an epic journey the length of Japan to explore its dazzling food...

The setting is a comedy club in a small Israeli town. An audience that has come expecting an evening of amusement instead sees a...

In the winter of 1954, in a construction camp in the remote Tasmanian highlands, when Sonja Buloh was three years old and her...

'The kind of book that changes readers for the better' Guardian

When a family tragedy means Mick is sent to the outback to...

This is the inside story of twelve years at the helm of Britain’s greatest theatre.

It is a story of lunatic failures and...

American academic Hannah and runaway Moroccan teenager Tariq have little in common, yet both find themselves haunted by the...

The epic new novel from the bestselling author of Birdsong

'Wistful, yearning and wise' Elizabeth Day

1914: Aspiring...

Two sisters quarrel over an inheritance and a new baby. A housekeeper caring for a helpless old man uncovers secrets from his...

A revelatory portrait of Napoleon written for our own time, exploring his love of nature and the gardens that gave his...

On the banks of the Zambezi River, a few miles from the majestic Victoria Falls, there was once a colonial settlement called The...

Charlie, a wealthy banker with an uneasy conscience, invites his troubled cousin Matthew to visit him and his wife in their...

Marie Colvin was glamorous, hard-drinking, braver than the boys, with a troubled and rackety personal life. She reported from the...

An inventive biography of one of the most famous ships of all time - recently discovered off the coast of America- Endeavour is...

‘A wonderful and important book, that from its first pages draws the reader along on a fascinating, gripping, often funny...

Taut, brooding and densely atmospheric, these stories show us the ways in which murder can arise out of boredom, perversity can...

Genghis Khan was by far the greatest conqueror the world has ever known, whose empire stretched from the Pacific Ocean to central...

On 27 May 1958, A Taste of Honey opened in a small fringe theatre in London. Written by a nineteen-year-old bus driver's daughter...

We are living in the anthropocene – an epoch where everything is being determined by the activities of just one soft-skinned,...

The final novel from the bestselling author of the Inspector Wallander mysteries

Fredrik Welin is a seventy-year-old retired...

In May 1937 a man in his early thirties waits by the lift of a Leningrad apartment block. He waits all through the night,...

Two lives. One night sky.

Roisin and Francois first meet in the snowy white expanse of Antarctica, searching for a comet...

Spring is a deeply moving novel about family, our everyday lives, our joys and our struggles, beautifully illustrated by Anna...

From global literary superstar Karl Ove Knausgaard, an achingly beautiful collection of daily meditations and love letters...

Cane, Cob and Chimney Jewett are young Georgia sharecroppers held under the thumb of their God-fearing father, Pearl. When he...