It is not love at first sight for Frances and Bernard.

She finds him faintly ridiculous while he sees her as aloof. But after...

The Bonfire of the Vanities author, Tom Wolfe, ingeniously dissects the turbulent heart of America’s racial vortex in this...

Born at the stroke of midnight, at the precise moment of India's independence, Saleem Sinai is destined from birth to be special....

The Hekes are a family in turmoil. A tyrannical, alcoholic, violent patriarch, an alcoholic, ever-trying-to-reform mother, and...

Cave... , Rowell...

An explosive and revelatory account about the British lobbying industry and how it affects us all at every level of our...

There's no better time to rediscover James Bond.

The British Secret Service has many enemies.

Whether it's a sniper in East...

There's no better time to rediscover James Bond.

Who killed an elderly couple in their Caribbean home?

M knows exactly who...

Leskov’s stories of Russian life are explosions of imagination. Peopled by outsized characters including serfs, princes, Gypsy...

Discover George Eliot's first novel, a tale of rural tragedy and redemption.

It may seem like an old tale: the beautiful...

When Pearl Tull’s husband, Beck, abandons her she pours her energies into preserving normality. Only gradually do her three...

A new re-issue of the cult swimming classic, a beautiful read filled with detailed description and powerful prose.

Haunts of...

There's no better time to rediscover James Bond.

SPECTRE - the international terrorist organization led by Blofeld - is...

There's no better time to rediscover James Bond.

Who is Auric Goldfinger?

The Bank of England wants to know and they're...

"Other things in the world are white but for me porcelain comes first"

A handful of clay from a Chinese hillside carries a...

A deadly new threat awaits Simon Serrailler in this compulsive thriller from Susan Hill, the bestselling author of The Woman in...

Simon Serrailler faces his most dangerous challenge yet in the edge-of-your-seat thriller from Susan Hill, the bestselling author...

If the world as we know it ended tomorrow, how would you survive?

A nuclear war, viral pandemic or asteroid strike. The world...

From the author of The Stolen Bicycle - longlisted for the International Man Booker Prize

On the island of Wayo Wayo, every...

In a snow-covered village in Chechnya, eight-year-old Havaa watches from the woods as her father is abducted in the middle of the...

As a child, Helen Macdonald was determined to become a falconer, learning the arcane terminology and reading all the classic...

Edward VII, who gave his name to the Edwardian era but was always known as Bertie, was fifty-nine when he finally came to power...

Ambitious and groundbreaking, Electric Shock tells the story of popular music, from the birth of recording in the 1890s to the...

From the author of Half of the Human Race (Channel 4 TV Book Club) comes an intricate and thrilling tale of love and conspiracy...

So how did such this extraordinary man get erased by history? Why are there no statues of 'Monsieur Humanity' as his troops...

A kiss that just won't happen. A disco at the end of the world. A teenage goth on a terror mission. And OAP kiddie-snatchers, and...

'For God's sake, hold on!'

On a stormy night off the coast of Scotland, young David Balfour faces his most terrifying test...

‘I pretend I am a princess, so that I can try and behave like one’

Without her beloved father and miles from home, it is very...

Read this 19th-century childhood adventure story that confronts the reality of racism in America.

'There comes a time in every...

‘Wait, wait! Save us! What’ll we do?’

Simon is determined to become a painter when he grows up so he sets off to London to...

Or so Nancy thinks. Then the lake ices over completely and the Swallows and Amazons, along with Dick and Dorothea - 'the D's' -...