Summer, 1967. As London shimmers in a heat haze and swoons to the sound of Sergeant Pepper, a mystery film – Eureka – is being...

Freya Wyley meets Nancy Holdaway amid the wild celebrations of VE Day, the prelude to a devoted and competitive...

In a village far away, deep in a valley, all the animals and birds disappeared some years ago. Only the rebellious young teacher...

The new novel in English from one of Norway’s most celebrated writers.

T Singer confronts indomitable loneliness in Solstad’s...

Mathinna, an Aboriginal girl from Van Diemen's Land, is adopted by nineteenth-century explorer, Sir John Franklin, and his wife,...

After a one-night stand with an attractive stranger, pole-dancer Gina Davies finds herself prime suspect in an attempted...

Trapped within a waterfall on the wild Franklin River, Tasmanian river guide, Aljaz Cosini, lies drowning. As the tourists he has...

Once upon a time that was called 1828, before all fishes in the sea and all living things on the land were destroyed, there was a...

Nineteen tales of growing up, wising up, and falling in love, spanning more than three decades of prize-winning work by a North...

Welcome to the Palladium, Brickley. Once the grandest music-hall south of the river, now its peeling foyer is home to stale...

A thrillingly original, labyrinthine journey through myth, art, literature, history, archaeology and memoir.

The tale of how...

Lockdown has been hard on relationships. Put your relationship first in 2021 with this powerful and nuanced guide to new ways of...

The gripping and definitive in-the-room account of the revolution that has swept the news industry over the last decade and...

Tara Fraser has a secret.

Desperate to escape herself and her past, she changes her name, packs up her London home and moves...

Harry can't trust his own memory

A man is caught on CCTV, shooting dead a cashier at a bank. Detective Harry Hole begins his...

In December 1888, Vincent van Gogh cut off his ear. It is the most famous story about any artist in history. But what really...

Understand how our immune system fights disease and enables the body to heal itself.

'Thrilling... Reads like the best kind of...

Summer 1893. In a small Norwegian fishing village, local girl Johanne dutifully gathers berries for tourists and poses barefoot...

A young boy coming of age in British-occupied Jerusalem trades away one possession after another, only to find something much...

The Fen is a liminal land. Real people live their lives here. They wrestle with sex and desire, with everyday routine. But the...

As the 2022 French Presidential election looms, two candidates emerge as favourites: Marine Le Pen of the Front National, and the...

What makes life worth living in the face of death?

At the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a decade's training as...

Cockfosters is a funny, frank and forceful story collection dealing with ageing, ambition and the patterns of repetition and...

A seaside pier collapses.
An expedition to Mars goes terribly wrong.
A thirty-stone man is confined to his living room.
One...

Shmuel – a young, idealistic student – has abandoned his studies in Jerusalem, taking a live-in job as a companion to a...

Petra's love life is a bit of a car-crash, even in her sixties. But then she falls for Jeremy, an old chum, visiting from abroad....

Blending history, mythology and a timeless love story, this is a satirical, magical masterpiece.

In the near future, after a...

What happens when we attempt to exchange the life we are given for something better?

Five people, in very different...

Henry Dunbar, the once all-powerful head of a global media corporation, is not having a good day. In his dotage he handed over...

Almost half of the developed population has an internet-based addiction. In some ways this is not surprising, as our world is...