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

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...

'Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless? - You think wrong!'
This is the story...

Desai... , Моррисон...

A stunning new collection of short stories about motherhood, selected and introduced by Candice Brathwaite.

The story of...

A quiet night in the neighbourhood pub is shattered by the arrival of a sword-wielding fugitive. A funeral party teeters on the...

Rediscover Gladys Mitchell – one of the 'Big Three' female crime fiction writers alongside Agatha Christie and Dorothy L....

Haroun: What's the use of stories that aren't even true?

I asked that question and the Unthinkable Thing happened: my father...

Flat on his front, binoculars to his eyes, alone at dusk, Dick makes a remarkable discovery: two rare birds, never before seen in...

A Greek gangster arrives in Stockholm, only to be murdered in a macabre fashion at Skansen zoo, his body consumed by...

The new novel from the bestselling author of The Idiot follows one young woman's quest for self-knowledge, as she travels abroad...

From a tiny crimson pear in the west of England to an exploding corn in Mexico, there are thousands of foods that are at risk of...

Berlin, the Greek Islands, London and California. 1928, 1932, 1938 and 1940. Four portraits, four settings, four narrators, all...

How do you solve a murder without a body?

Keeping watch under the windows of the Paris flat belonging to a politician's...

There's a superstition in our family about falling...

Marta's great-great-grandfather Jiri was said to have given a gentle...

Rediscover Gladys Mitchell - one of the 'Big Three' female crime fiction writers alongside Agatha Christie and Dorothy L....

All that stands between one man and murder by the mafia is a penguin.

Viktor is an aspiring writer in Ukraine with only Misha,...

In this stellar collection of short stories, Helen Simpson explores independence, solitude, marriage, sex and babies with her...

‘Let fly jib sheet! Slack away main! Fenders out!’

Dick and Dorothea – also known as The Ds – arrive in Norfolk all ready to...

Based on the life of cornet player Buddy Bolden, one of the legendary jazz pioneers of turn-of-the-twentieth-century New Orleans,...

A vivid, believable love story between an older woman and a younger man.

Lea de Lonval is a magnificent and aging courtesan...

Agatha Christie called her 'a shining light'. Have you discovered Margery Allingham, the 'true queen' of the classic murder...

C L R James, one of the foremost thinkers of the twentieth century, was devoted to the game of cricket. In this classic summation...

Detective Paul Hjelm and his team receive an urgent call from the FBI. A murderer whose methods bear a frightening resemblance to...

In the first month of the First World War the Russian campaign against the Germans creaks into gear. Crippled by weak, indecisive...

How did the good life go so wrong?

Amy Connell and Lan Honey are having the best childhood. When their families make the leap...

A charming extraordinary early 20th century novel about family relationships.

When the great statesman Lord Slane dies,...

An unsettling and absorbing tale from the bestselling author of The Woman in Black.

Celibate, irreproachable and...