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

Shortlisted for the Orwell Prize 2012

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The captivating life of Margaret Douglas - a life of scandal, political intrigue and royal romance that spanned five Tudor...

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...

Subject of an infamous obscenity trial, Lady Chatterley's Lover is now regarded as one of the pivotal novels of the twentieth...

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.

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'One of Dickens's most neglected, but most rewarding, novels' Peter Ackroyd

Dickens's first historical novel is a thrilling...

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...

'P.G. Wodehouse remains the greatest chronicler of a certain kind of Englishness, that no one else has ever captured quite so...

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.

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Social worker Keith, separated from his wife and their teenage son, is floundering in a world of fraught sexual politics,...

'As exquisitely observed and quietly brilliant as the rest of Tyler's fiction' Guardian

Liam Pennywell has spent most of his...

‘Powerful… Poignant, bleak and haunting, this is a small masterpiece’ Sunday Mirror

Brother and sister, Ted and Rose Howker,...

Ben Joe is the only boy in a family of six sisters, Mama and Gram.

He is studying for a law degree in New York when he hears...

Tourists come to Bangkok for many reasons: a night of love, a stay in a luxury hotel, or simply to disappear for a while....

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...

Discover the extraordinary story of the woman who brought China into the modern age, from the bestselling author of Wild...

We are poised on the edge of discovery in particle physics (the study of the smallest objects we know of) and cosmology (the...