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...

Henri has a passion for Napoleon - but Napoleon has a passion for chicken. As soldier and emperor butcher their way across...

A baby girl is abandoned, banished from London to the storm-ravaged American city of New Bohemia. Her father has been driven mad...

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...

Doctor Thorne was considered by Trollope to be the best of his works - a profound examination of the relationship between money...

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...

'Flaneuse [flanne-euhze], noun, from the French. Feminine form of flaneur [flanne-euhr], an idler, a dawdling observer, usually...

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....

The remarkable story of Bess of Hardwick, her ascent through Elizabethan society and the houses she built that shaped British...

As the youngest student to be admitted to Bergen's prestigious Writing Academy, Karl Ove arrives full of excitement and writerly...

Kate Battista is stuck.

How did she end up running house and home for her eccentric scientist father and infuriating younger...