‘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...

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

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...

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

How did the good life go so wrong?

Amy Connell and Lan Honey are having the best childhood. When their families make the leap...

A charming extraordinary early 20th century novel about family relationships.

When the great statesman Lord Slane dies,...

An unsettling and absorbing tale from the bestselling author of The Woman in Black.

Celibate, irreproachable and...

A Treacherous Paradise sees Henning Mankell turn his talents for writing gripping thrillers to a world where power and...

Marital troubles? Sick of life? Suicide the answer? Why not get yourself a contract killer?
Nothing easier, provided you...

A rampaging force of nature is wreaking havoc on the streets of Edinburgh, but has top shagger, drug-dealer, gonzo-porn-star and...

Ebenezer Scrooge despises Christmas. He has no time for festivities or goodwill toward his fellow men and is only interested in...

Since the 1990 publication of her first collection, Four Bare Legs in a Bed, Helen Simpson has been hailed as one of the best...

A lieutenant writes of digging through bodies that have the consistency of Camembert cheese; a mother sends flower seeds to her...

When Mercy Garrett moves herself out of the family home, everyone determines not to notice.

All she wants is space and...

A student moves to the city to research Gothic nudes, renting an apartment from a painter, Agnes, who lives in another town with...

In this hugely powerful book, Karen Armstrong argues that it isn't enough to change our behaviour to avert environmental...

Matt Rowland Hill grew up the son of a minister in an evangelical Christian church. It was a childhood fraught with bitter family...

This is a story of East and West. A story of love, betrayal, and lost illusions...

The end of the Cold War seems unimaginable...

The Quick

A woman swims in a remote, milky-blue lagoon. Steam rises from the water and as it clears, a body is revealed in the...

The meeting of Voltaire, successful financier, famous poet and troublemaker, and the enchanting amateur physicist and countess...

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

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

A murder. A world in crisis. Britain's greatest spy . . .

It is M's funeral. One man is missing from the graveside: the...

Venice, 1522. Intelligence arrives from the east confirming Europe's greatest fear: the vastly rich Ottoman Sultan has all he...

In his first novel, Werner Herzog tells a hypnotic tale inspired by the true story of a Japanese soldier who defended a small...

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