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...

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...

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

She will change the way you see the world . . .

Elizabeth Finch was a teacher, a thinker, an inspiration. Neil is just one of...

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...

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...

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,...

A vivid, believable love story between an older woman and a younger man.

Lea de Lonval is a magnificent and aging courtesan...

'We read in order to come to life.'
With fierce imagination, a woman revisits the moments that shape her life; from crushes on...

He was the very first icon of the silver screen, and is one of the most recognisable faces in Hollywood, even a hundred years on...

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

During the course of a single night, Father Sebastian Urrutia Lacroix, a Chilean priest, who is a member of Opus Dei, a literary...

The extraordinary new story collection from one of Ireland's greatest writers and bestselling author of Mindwinter...

C L R James, one of the foremost thinkers of the twentieth century, was devoted to the game of cricket. In this classic summation...

Detective Paul Hjelm and his team receive an urgent call from the FBI. A murderer whose methods bear a frightening resemblance to...

Autumn begins with a letter Karl Ove Knausgaard writes to his unborn daughter. He adds one short piece each day, describing the...

In the first month of the First World War the Russian campaign against the Germans creaks into gear. Crippled by weak, indecisive...