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...

Karl Ove Knausgaard writes about his life with painful honesty. He writes about his childhood and teenage years, his infatuation...

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...

When he hears her favourite Beatles song, Toru Watanabe recalls his first love Naoko, the girlfriend of his best friend...

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...

A German businessman is the third to die: murdered in a seaside guesthouse.

A note pinned on his body is addressed to Colonel...

Granite, a tough composite of quartz, feldspar and mica, is the stuff of Dartmoor, the most formidable of the five granite bosses...

Written in alternating chapters, W or the Memory of Childhood, tells two parallel tales, in two parts. One is a story created in...

Eleven years old and on the cusp of puberty, Aron Kleinfeld is precocious, imaginative - the leader of his gang of friends. But...

From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Free Love and Late in the Day, discover a story of two lives stretched between two...

The Northmen’s Fury tells the Viking story, from the first pinprick raids of the eighth century to the great armies that left...

Mia Holl lives in a state governed by The Method, where good health is the highest duty of the citizen. Everyone must submit...

Julia Blackburn and her husband moved to a little house in the mountains of northern Italy in 1999. She arrived as a stranger but...

Reykjavik, Saturday night

He offered her another margarita, and, as he returned from the bar, he carefully slid the pill into...

The definitive biography of the late Leonard Cohen - singer-songwriter, musician, poet, and novelist.

The genius behind such...

Meet Fahner, the retired small-town doctor who resorts to the garden axe when his patience with his cruel wife runs out.

Meet...

On a small island off the south coast of France, Robert Hendricks - an English doctor who has seen the best and the worst the...

Terrified, a young prisoner in the Second World War closes his eyes and pictures himself going out to bat on a sunlit cricket...

The once-great city of Bohane on the west coast of Ireland is on its knees, infested by vice and split along tribal lines. There...