Ora, a middle-aged Israeli mother, is about to celebrate her son Ofer's release from army service when he returns to the front...

The essential crime book of our times, from the author of the bestselling McMafia.

Shortlisted for the Orwell Prize 2012

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October 1914: the destroyer Svea emerged from the Stockholm archipelago bearing south-south-east. On board was Lars...

Isamay's unusual name comes from her two very different grandmothers, Isa and May, who were both present at her birth and who...

Welcome to the village of Notwithstanding, where a lady dresses in plus fours and shoots squirrels, a retired general gives up...

An old man is found murdered in his Reykjavik flat.

A cryptic note and a photograph of a young girl's grave are left...

Momik, the only child of two survivors, is brought up in Israel by a family seeking to ignore the past. No-one will explain to...

It is the French Riviera in the 1920s. Nicole and Dick Diver are a wealthy, elegant, magnetic couple. A coterie of admirers are...

'One of the most productive, imaginative and risk-taking of writers... It is a clever, sexually explicit, fast-moving, full...

In his first book since the acclaimed The Running Sky Tim Dee tells the story of four green fields. Four fields spread around the...

A teenage son shoots himself under his parents' bed. They sleep that night unaware he is lying dead beneath them.

A stranger...

Set in 1900s, this is a lushly descriptive and highly autobiographical portrayal of a young man growing up in class-divided...

A brilliant and heart-rending evocation of destructive passion.

When John Dowell and his wife befriend Edward and Leonora...

This ebullient, gallivanting novel encapsulates the world vision of the Czech Republic's best-loved author in one tumbling,...

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...

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...

In a sleepy hamlet in north Sweden, the local police make a chilling discovery; nineteen people have been brutally slaughtered....

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’s classic Second World War novel is an uplifting, satisfying and moving story.

John Howard is determined to...

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....