After ten years' journeying Odysseus returns, again and again, to Ithaca. Each time he finds something different: his patient...

Either you kill the bull, or the bull kills you - traditional proverb.

Chief Inspector Max Camara hates bullfighting but one...

A nostalgic and very funny celebration of the slightly slapdash place we call home: Great Britain

Would you cheer if they sent...

We last saw Henry Smart, his leg severed in an accident with a railway boxcar, crawl into the Utah desert to die - only to be...

Harry can't trust his own memory

A man is caught on CCTV, shooting dead a cashier at a bank. Detective Harry Hole begins his...

Ora, a middle-aged Israeli mother, is about to celebrate her son Ofer's release from army service when he returns to the front...

It is a few days before Christmas and a Reykjavik doorman and occasional Santa Claus, Gudlauger, has been found stabbed to death...

The essential crime book of our times, from the author of the bestselling McMafia.

Shortlisted for the Orwell Prize 2012

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Britain's foremost female historian reveals the true story of this key figure in the Wars of the Roses and the Tudor dynasty who...

The captivating life of Margaret Douglas - a life of scandal, political intrigue and royal romance that spanned five Tudor...

The New Machiavelli is a gripping account of life inside 'the bunker' of Number 10. In his twenty-first century reworking of...

A dark-skinned young boy is found dead, frozen to the ground in a pool of his own blood. The boy's Thai half-brother is missing;...

A skeleton is found half-buried in a dried out lake. The bones have been weighed down with an old radio transmitter: is this a...

October 1914: the destroyer Svea emerged from the Stockholm archipelago bearing south-south-east. On board was Lars...

Read the cult classic behind the major new film starring Joaquin Phoenix, Reese Witherspoon and Josh Brolin.

Part noir, part...

Isamay's unusual name comes from her two very different grandmothers, Isa and May, who were both present at her birth and who...

Discover the era of William Shakespeare and Elizabeth I through the sharp, informative and hilarious eyes of Ian Mortimer.

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Welcome to the village of Notwithstanding, where a lady dresses in plus fours and shoots squirrels, a retired general gives up...

Herbert Molin, a retired police officer, is living alone in a remote cottage in the vast forests of northern Sweden. He has two...

This highly original book brilliantly exposes the phenomenon of false allegations of lunacy and the dark motives behind them in...

An old man is found murdered in his Reykjavik flat.

A cryptic note and a photograph of a young girl's grave are left...

Subject of an infamous obscenity trial, Lady Chatterley's Lover is now regarded as one of the pivotal novels of the twentieth...

Momik, the only child of two survivors, is brought up in Israel by a family seeking to ignore the past. No-one will explain to...

It is the French Riviera in the 1920s. Nicole and Dick Diver are a wealthy, elegant, magnetic couple. A coterie of admirers are...

Anthony Patch and Gloria Gibson are the golden children of the Jazz Age. They marry and embark on a life of glittering parties,...

In 1950, no mountain higher than 8,000 meters had ever been climbed. Maurice Herzog and other members of the French Alpine Club...

A novel which chronicles the lines of three generations of the Brangwen family and the emergence of modern England.

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Enderby is a poet, social critic and Catholic. He may be found hiding in the lavatory where much of his best work is composed, or...

'One of the most productive, imaginative and risk-taking of writers... It is a clever, sexually explicit, fast-moving, full...

In his first book since the acclaimed The Running Sky Tim Dee tells the story of four green fields. Four fields spread around the...