Min works at the BBC as an audio engineer, where she is struggling to replicate the sound of a heartbeat. At home, other matters...

Sweden's elite are under attack.

Two rich and powerful men have been murdered, and in the face of mounting panic - and media...

Celebrating the finest works of the Harlem Renaissance, one of the most important Black arts movements in modern history.
'Why...

The first novel in world renowned film-maker, Ingmar Bergman’s trilogy of novels plotting the fractious marriage of his...

At Edinburgh's Department of Environmental Health, hard-drinking, womanising officer Danny Skinner wants to uncover secrets: 'the...

Lasting for six long years, the Blitz transformed life in the capital beyond recognition, marking a time of almost constant...

'We can't behave like people in novels, though, can we?'

Newland Archer and May Welland are the perfect couple. He is a...

Maugham's studies of the lives and masterpieces of ten great novelists are outstanding examples of literary criticism at its...

Virginia Woolf began writing reviews for the Guardian 'to make a few pence' from her father's death in 1904, and continued until...

The subjects of Salman Rushdie's collection of non-fiction range from The Wizard of Oz, U2, India and Indian writing, the death...

The finest and most enjoyable of Virginia Woolf's letters are brought together in a single volume. It is a marvellous collection...

Virginia Woolf turned to her diary as to an intimate friend, to whom she could freely and spontaneously confide her thoughts on...

In this frightening and surprising novel, the eccentric, wayward genius of Commissaire Adamsberg is pitted against the...

Ngugi wa Thiong'o is renowned for his political novels and plays, yet he honed his craft as a short story writer. First published...

"You're always good on ideas, Tom..."

An American art collector is claiming that the expensive masterpiece he bought is a...

Celebrating the finest works of the Harlem Renaissance, one of the most important Black arts movements in modern history.

'She...

'I'm alive inside. A bird is my heart. Mama and Daddy is not win. I'm winning.'

This is the story of Precious, a...

Witty, comedic and engrossing, this second collection showcases the range of W. Somerset Maugham’s talent as a playwright. The...

In his day, W. Somerset Maugham was most celebrated as a playwright, and the breadth of his ability is manifested in this...

'Barbecued billygoats!'

Can you imagine finding gold? That's just what the Swallows and Amazons and Dick and Dorothea decide...

Harry Hole is in trouble.

The police don't want him back...

After the horrors of a case that nearly cost him his life,...

Four young women are brutally attacked in a convent near an all-black town in America in the mid-1970s. The inevitability of this...

In One-Man Band, the third volume in his epic survey of Orson Welles’ life and work, Simon Callow again probes in comprehensive...

A brilliant biography of the young Orson Welles, from his prodigious childhood and youth, his triumphs with the Mercury Theatre,...

It is Midsummer's Eve. Three young friends meet in a wood to act out an elaborate masque. But, unknown to them, they are being...

Celebrating the finest works of the Harlem Renaissance, one of the most important Black arts movements in modern...

In this non-fiction novel – road trip, confession, and erotic tour de force – Emmanuel Carrere pursues two consuming obsessions:...

'So long,' called the harbourmaster. 'Don't run into Missee Lee!'

The Swallows, Amazons and Captain Flint don't pay much heed...

In 1992 Arvid Jansen is thirty-eight, divorced and paralysed by grief. More than a year has passed since the tragic accident that...

From 'Best of the Booker' winner Salman Rushdie, an incisive and inspiring collection of non-fiction essays, criticism and...