Oscar-winning writer Steve Tesich masterfully creates and destroys the sad, mad world of Saul Karoo.

Karoo is an alcoholic who...

Mid-1930s, Northern France. A mysterious young girl named Anne Louvet arrives at the seedy Hotel du Lion d'Or in the small French...

Australia celebrated one hundred years as a nation in 2001. This book - part history, part travelogue, part memoir - tells the...

Bruce Chatwin's bestselling novel traces the fortunes of the enigmatic and unconventional hero, Kaspar Utz. Despite the...

On the Black Hill is an elegantly written tale of identical twin brothers who grow up on a farm in rural Wales and never leave...

In 1812, Francisco Manoel da Silva, escaping a life of poverty in Brazil, sailed to the African kingdom of Dahomey, determined to...

'Other People had me purring with pleasure' The Times

Like a ghost or a fugitive, Mary roams through London - pursuing and...

In the last years of British rule in Jerusalem, a lonely, bookish Israeli boy befriends a British soldier in this tale of...

The Hill of Evil Counsel is a fusion of history and imaginative narrative, re-creating the twilight world of Jerusalem during the...

These dazzling and utterly satisfying stories explore varieties and degrees of love - filial, platonic, sexual, parental and...

A man finds himself surrounded by women who are becoming paler, more silent and literally smaller; a woman's intimate life is...

Students and journalists, farmers and birdwatchers, ex-wives, adolescent lovers - and dancing girls. All ordinary people - or are...

Life Before Man explores the lives of three people imprisoned by walls of their own construction and in thrall to the tragicomedy...

A powerful and unique story about connection, showing that miracles can happen – even across a library circulation desk.

The...

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...

The gripping adventure that invented the mystery of Shangri-La.

Flying out of India, a light aircraft is hi-jacked and flown...

Discover this powerful novel about the ordinary lives of the Baines sisters. The perfect next step for fans of Little...