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Furo Wariboko - born and bred in Lagos - wakes up on the morning of his job...

Jon is 59 and divorced: a senior civil servant in Westminster who hates many of his colleagues and loathes his work, he is a good...

'Tender and surprising... A vivid and evocative tale' New York Times

Twenty-one-year-old Megan Cartwright has never been...

The intoxicating new novel from the number one bestselling author of The Outcast

London 1972. Luke is dazzled by the city. It...

Selected as a book of the year 2017 by The Times and Sunday Times

What is it about Adam and Eve's story that fascinates us?...

In his dynamic tour through 40,000 years of music, from prehistoric instruments to modern-day pop, Howard Goodall leads us...

Longlisted for the 2015 IMPAC Dublin Literary Award

Jimmy Rabbitte is back.

The man who invented the Commitments back in...

In 1845, a Reading bookseller named John Snare came across the dirt-blackened portrait of a prince at a country house auction....

Fidel and Raul Castro are in the hills, descending only to burn sugarcane plantations and recruit rebels.

Rachel K is in...

Reno mounts her motorcycle and sets a collision course for New York.

In 1977 the city is alive with art, sensuality and...

'A spectacular, elegant, brilliant portrait of skulduggery, murder and sex in Renaissance Florence' Simon Sebag Montefiore,...

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This is the story of an ordinary man who became the king of the largest slum in Rio, the head of a drug cartel and...

Celebrate twenty-five years of Britain's favourite singleton with this laugh-out-loud number one bestseller.

Is it morally...

In 1981 Tim Parks moved from England to Italy and spent the next thirty years alongside hundreds of thousands of Italians on his...

'An intricately crafted novel, sharp-eared, current and full of heart' Guardian, Books of the Year

A spirited...

Discover the generation-defining American novel from the author of The Wife

Whatever became of the most talented people you...

The end of the world
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On to the shores of Texas a raging sea coughs up two castaways: Jim and Natty,...

A Welsh community witnesses a strange vision: the huge spectre of a woman floating over a ridge. Is it a collective...

In Falling Out of Time, David Grossman has created a genre-defying drama - part play, part prose, pure poetry - to tell the story...

The international thriller sensation

It starts with just one body - the hands bound, the skin covered in marks.

Detective...

They gave us democracy, philosophy, poetry, rational science, the joke. They built the Parthenon and the Library of Alexandria....

Sheila's twenties were going to plan.

She got married.
She hosted parties.
A theatre asked her to write a play.

Then she...

The author of Horizon's classic work explores the Arctic landscape and the hold it continues to exert on our imagination.
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Selin, a tall, highly strung Turkish-American from New Jersey turns up at Harvard with no idea what to expect. What she doesn't...

Discover John Cheever’s quirky psychological novel that is the perfect book club read.

Ezekiel Farragut is a college...

'Two Surface-dwellers. Two! He's a Fattypuff and you're a Thinifer. There's no doubt about it!'

This is the tale of two...

One morning Herman Mussert wakes up in a hotel room in Lisbon, where twenty years previously he slept with another man’s wife....

'Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains' is the dramatic opening line of The Social Contract, published in 1762. Quoted...

Allan Quatermain is a Victorian Indiana Jones - he triumphs over deserts, snowy mountains, tribal warfare and witches, and...

The first modern spy novel and a must-read for espionage junkies and fans of James Bond and John Le Carre.

When Carruthers...