When Saladin recaptured Jerusalem from the Crusaders in 1187, returning the Holy City to Islamic rule, he sent shockwaves...

Meili, a young peasant woman born in the remote heart of China, is married to Kongzi, a village school teacher, and a distant...

Spiralling into an alcohol-fuelled depression after killing a man in the line of duty, Inspector Kurt Wallander has made up his...

The fifth novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Free Love, The Past and Late in the Day, Clever Girl is a tale of an...

After just a year of close, loving marriage, Ruth has been widowed. Her beloved husband, Ben, has been killed in a tragic...

Cyprus, spring 1972. Tensions are rising between the Greek South and the Turkish North. Within two years, the country will become...

A beguiling collection of short stories from award-winning author of Free Love, The Past and Late in the Day, Tessa...

From the author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time comes a novel about families and secrets

Two families....

You are about to discover the secrets of The Quick –

But first, reader, you must travel to Victorian England, and there, in...

Wars come and go across the headlines and television screens, but for those who survive them, scarred and scattered, they never...

What does it take to be a family?

Julia has fallen deeply, unexpectedly in love. James is her second chance, and everything...

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

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

A horribly violent, but horribly unsuccessful criminal, Lionel’s attentions up to now have all been on his nephew, Desmond...

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

Ranging from urgently contemporary London...

Tony Webster and his clique first met Adrian Finn at school. Sex-hungry and book-hungry, they would navigate the girl-less sixth...

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...

In the Florida Everglades, gator-park Swamplandia! is in trouble. Its star performer, the great beauty and champion...

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,...