What if everything you'd ever wanted was no longer enough?

Adam and Rachel are getting married at last. Childhood sweethearts...

A deeply moving collection of stories from the bestselling author of Star of the Sea

Ranging from urgently contemporary London...

A very, very funny novel about country sports, murder, intrigue - and talking pheasants.

It begins for Basil 'Banger'...

Detective Sigurdur Oli is in trouble.

After a school reunion exposes the chasm between his life and those of his much more...

Melding his native Irish sensibilities to those of his adopted west-coast Scotland, these tales attend to life’s big events: love...

The Alms for Oblivion sequence - an extraordinary series of murders, suicides, affairs, fighting, fires and at least one...

Simon Raven's sequence of colourful and funny novels about the English upper-class misbehaving continues against a backdrop of...

Enter Alms for Oblivion, Simon Raven's dazzling cycle of ten novels, all telling separate stories but at the same time linked...

28 June 1389, the Field of the Blackbirds. A Christian army made up of Serbs, Bosnians, Albanians and Romanians confront an...

It's the 1970s and cracks are starting to appear in the alliance between China and its Communist cohort Albania. When an Albanian...

Tess is an innocent young girl until the day she goes to visit her rich 'relatives', the D'Urbervilles. Her encounter with her...

Malignant forces and supernatural visitors haunt this selection of superbly spooky tales selected and introduced by Ruth...

Sir Humphrey du Val of the Table of Less Valued Knights - Camelot's least prestigious table, with one leg shorter than the others...

From one of Spain's greatest writers, a witty, moving novel about art, life, death and James Joyce.

SHORTLISTED FOR THE...

One of the most acclaimed debuts of the year - a rumbustuous, brilliant novel about Sri Lanka, cricket and the search for a...

Scenes from Provincial Life brings together, in one volume, J.M. Coetzee’s majestic trilogy of fictionalised memoir, Boyhood,...

I read somewhere that the decision to emigrate comes from a need to breathe.

The hope of a better life is stronger than any...

A transfixing parable of greed, goodness and an extraordinary miracle from the author of The Woman in Black.

Tommy Carr was a...

Tudor tells a family story like no other.

The Tudors are a national obsession, undoubtedly British history's most notorious...

This is a book about leaving your wife and everything you know.

It is about fresh starts, about love, about friendship. It is...

Eva is walking by the river with her seven-year-old daughter when they catch sight of a man’s body in the water. Eva tells her...

Kate, a grieving, semi-alcoholic film student, invites an elderly woman to take part in an oral-history documentary. Jean...

How do you catch a killer who doesn't exist?

One snowy night in the cathedral city of Lafferton, an old woman is dragged from...

When Janie Ryan is born, she is destined to be the latest in a long line of Aberdeen fishwives.

Ahead of her lies a life...

Artist Jed Martin emerges from a ten-year hiatus with good news. It has nothing to do with his broken boiler, the approach of...

How does the novel represent human consciousness on the page?
In eleven sparkling essays on some of the great novelists of the...

Calcutta, 1967. Unnoticed by his family, Supratik has become dangerously involved in extremist political activism. Compelled by...

Anil's Ghost transports us to Sri Lanka, a country steeped in centuries of tradition, now forced into the late twentieth century...

William Cavendish, the father of the first Earl, dissolved monasteries for Henry VIII. Bess, his second wife, was...

The restrictions of a wartime childhood in in London and subsequent post-war shortages have done little to enrich Timothy's early...