These dazzling and utterly satisfying stories explore varieties and degrees of love - filial, platonic, sexual, parental and...

A man finds himself surrounded by women who are becoming paler, more silent and literally smaller; a woman's intimate life is...

Students and journalists, farmers and birdwatchers, ex-wives, adolescent lovers - and dancing girls. All ordinary people - or are...

Life Before Man explores the lives of three people imprisoned by walls of their own construction and in thrall to the tragicomedy...

A powerful and unique story about connection, showing that miracles can happen – even across a library circulation desk.

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His name is Lord Doyle.

His plan: to gamble away his last days in the dark and decadent casino halls of Macau.

His game:...

The bestselling classic from a 'magnificent story-teller' (Independent on Sunday). Journey to the glittering seventeenth-century...

Two people fall in love, not yet knowing where they have come from or where they are going.

They aren't sure if they have...

Henri has a passion for Napoleon - but Napoleon has a passion for chicken. As soldier and emperor butcher their way across...

In a near-future London, Sappho, Picasso and Handel each set upon the same plan - to flee the city by train. Finding themselves...

In a quiet English suburb, a love affair ignites. For our nameless narrator, Louise is the last in a long line of explosive...

A baby girl is abandoned, banished from London to the storm-ravaged American city of New Bohemia. Her father has been driven mad...

On the banks of the Thames a baby is found floating. Rescued by the Dog-Woman, a giant strong enough to fling an elephant into...

As Caravaggio, the libertine of Italy's art world, and the loutish Spanish poet Quevedo aim to settle scores over the course of...

Selected as a Book of the Year 2016 in The Times, Sunday Times and The Economist, and one of the 10 Best Books of 2016 in the New...

Welcome to the world of the sharp-suited ‘faces’. The Italianistas. The scooter-riding, all-night-dancing instigators of what...

A neurologist explores the very real world of psychosomatic illness.

Pauline first became ill when she was fifteen. What...

A puzzling phone call shatters a writer’s routine. An enigmatic female voice extends an invitation to take part in Documenta, the...

In the brief golden years before the outbreak of World War I, Rosie McCosh and her three very different sisters are growing up in...

Midnight, New Year's Eve, 1976. Nine lives are about to be changed forever.

Regan and William Hamilton-Sweeney, heirs to one...

Rivalry, unruly desire and ugly secrets poison a family holiday in this gripping novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author...

Manuel is growing up in Franco's Spain. He adores his elder sister, Maria, and they are watched over by their mother, who enjoys...

This magnificent collection takes us to Glanbeigh, a small town in rural Ireland - a town in which the youth have the run of the...

Discover the real story behind Disney's latest blockbuster adaptation The Nutcracker and the Four Realms, and the iconic...

Doctor Thorne was considered by Trollope to be the best of his works - a profound examination of the relationship between money...

The gripping adventure that invented the mystery of Shangri-La.

Flying out of India, a light aircraft is hi-jacked and flown...

Beecher Stowe's vivid descriptions uncover the harrowing situations faced by slaves in Civil War America.

When a Kentucky...

Discover this powerful novel about the ordinary lives of the Baines sisters. The perfect next step for fans of Little...

Welcome to Redwall Abbey. Inside its enormous doors, mice live in peace, helping those in need and throwing epic feasts for the...

Love is Angela Carter's fifth novel and was first published in 1971. With surgical precision it charts the destructive emotional...