As his tale begins, Orlando is a passionate young nobleman whose days are spent in rowdy revelry, filled with the colourful...

A Husband. A Wife. Their Secret

Joe and Joan Castleman are en route to Helsinki. Joe is thinking about the prestigious...

A dystopian classic

In February 2108, the New Zealand Rediscovery Expedition reaches California at last. It is over a century...

A gripping biography by the author of Brave New World

In 1634 Urbain Grandier, a handsome and dissolute priest of the parish...

It's 1924, and New York is the centre of the universe.

Henry Smart, on the run from Dublin, falls on his feet. He is a...

Following the wild success of his novel, Carnovsky, Nathan Zuckerman has been catapulted into the literary limelight. As he...

Like a latter-day Gregor Samsa, Professor David Kepesh wakes up one morning to find that he has been transformed. But where...

'The Anatomy Lesson is a ferocious, heartfelt book - lavish with laughs and flamboyant inventions' John Updike

With his...

In search of the unpublished manuscript of a martyred Yiddish writer, American novelist Nathan Zuckerman travels to...

A complex, intense American novel of family from the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature

With an introduction by Richard...

The matchless Munro makes art out of everyday lives in this exquisite short story collection.

Here are men and women of wildly...

One day, out of the blue, Henry Nagel inherits a sumptuous apartment in St John's Wood. Divine intervention? Or his late father's...

Ludicrous, heart-warming and improbably inspirational, Spanish Steps is the story of what happens when a rather silly man tries...

In this vivid portrait of one day in a woman's life, Clarissa Dalloway is preoccupied with the last-minute details of party she...

Saturday, February 15, 2003.

Henry Perowne, a successful neurosurgeon, stands at his bedroom window before dawn and watches a...

'Lynne Reid Banks' compassionate first novel examines the stigma of unmarried motherhood in pre-pill, pre-Abortion Act Britain......

'Her brilliance in capturing the ripples on the surface of family life gives her a claim to be the Jane Austen of our age' Daily...

Michael and Pauline seemed like the perfect couple - young, good-looking, made for each other.

The moment she walked into his...

When Klara appears in Paris, two months after the end of the war and years after her disappearance into Auschwitz, her best...

Set mainly in Uzbekistan between 1900 and 1980, The Railway introduces to us the inhabitants of the small town of Gilas on the...

Read the enthralling medieval murder mystery.

The year is 1327. Franciscans in a wealthy Italian abbey are suspected of...

Since the ascendancy of the Taliban the lives of Mosheen and his beautiful wife, Zunaira, have been gradually destroyed....

Stifled by the torpor of colonial South Africa and trapped in a web of reciprocal oppression, a lonely sheep farmer seeks comfort...

For thirty-five year old Charlotte Emory, leaving her husband seems to offer the only way out from the mundaneness of every day...

Joyce Stevenson is thirteen when her widowed mother takes them to live with Aunt Vera, a formidable teacher neglected by her...

Denis Stone, a naive young poet, is invited to stay at Crome, a country house renowned for its gatherings of 'bright young...

Watching a rented video, Tertuliano Maximo Afonso is shocked to notice that one of the actors is identical to him in every...

Like all good coaching inns, The Green Man is said to boast a resident ghost: Dr Thomas Underhill, a notorious...

Elegant, provocative and hugely entertaining, Kingsley Amis's memoirs are filled with anecdotes, experiences and portraits of...

A serial killer is terrorising the people of Bologna and rookie Detective Inspector Grazia Negro is determined to solve the case....