'Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless? - You think wrong!'
This is the story...

Discover five short stories from the bestselling author of Trainspotting.
In 'Rattlesnakes', three young Americans find...

Desai... , Morrison...

A stunning new collection of short stories about motherhood, selected and introduced by Candice Brathwaite.

The story of...

A quiet night in the neighbourhood pub is shattered by the arrival of a sword-wielding fugitive. A funeral party teeters on the...

Rediscover Gladys Mitchell – one of the 'Big Three' female crime fiction writers alongside Agatha Christie and Dorothy L....

A unique and captivating collection of Hemingway's writings on war, including extracts from his unparalleled war novels, some...

Haroun: What's the use of stories that aren't even true?

I asked that question and the Unthinkable Thing happened: my father...

Flat on his front, binoculars to his eyes, alone at dusk, Dick makes a remarkable discovery: two rare birds, never before seen in...

'As they sat together in the twilight, talking over their small plans, the future always grew so beautiful and bright'

Meg,...

In the summer of 2000 New York is a city living at breakneck speed in an age of unprecedented decadence.

Into this tumultuous...

Frederick II of Prussia attempted to escape his authoritarian father as a boy, but went on to become one of history's greatest...

Kendi... , Blain...

Four Hundred Souls is an epoch-defining history of African America, the first to appear in a generation, told by ninety leading...

This is the second volume of Vonnegut’s autobiographical writings – a collage of his own life story, snipped up and stuck down...

A Greek gangster arrives in Stockholm, only to be murdered in a macabre fashion at Skansen zoo, his body consumed by...

The new novel from the bestselling author of The Idiot follows one young woman's quest for self-knowledge, as she travels abroad...

Rebecca Navarro, best-selling authoress of Regency romances, suffers a paralysing stroke. Assisted by her nurse, Rebecca plans...

From a tiny crimson pear in the west of England to an exploding corn in Mexico, there are thousands of foods that are at risk of...

Berlin, the Greek Islands, London and California. 1928, 1932, 1938 and 1940. Four portraits, four settings, four narrators, all...

Widely regarded as the world's first modern novel, and one of the funniest and most tragic books ever written, Don Quixote...

How do you solve a murder without a body?

Keeping watch under the windows of the Paris flat belonging to a politician's...

There's a superstition in our family about falling...

Marta's great-great-grandfather Jiri was said to have given a gentle...

John Lafcadio’s ambition to be known as the greatest painter since Rembrandt was not to be thwarted by a matter as trifling as...

Rediscover Gladys Mitchell - one of the 'Big Three' female crime fiction writers alongside Agatha Christie and Dorothy L....

All that stands between one man and murder by the mafia is a penguin.

Viktor is an aspiring writer in Ukraine with only Misha,...

In this stellar collection of short stories, Helen Simpson explores independence, solitude, marriage, sex and babies with her...

Acknowledged as a masterpiece of materialist criticism, this book delves into the complex ways economic reality shapes the...

Some things are easier to forget than others...
Detective Inspector Ray Lennox has fled to Miami to escape the aftermath of a...

Agatha Christie called her ‘a shining light’. Have you discovered Margery Allingham, the 'true queen' of the classic murder...

‘Let fly jib sheet! Slack away main! Fenders out!’

Dick and Dorothea – also known as The Ds – arrive in Norfolk all ready to...

Based on the life of cornet player Buddy Bolden, one of the legendary jazz pioneers of turn-of-the-twentieth-century New Orleans,...