Marie's job as a museum guard at the National Gallery in London offers her the life she always wanted, one of invisibility and...

When Saladin recaptured Jerusalem from the Crusaders in 1187, returning the Holy City to Islamic rule, he sent shockwaves...

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Meili, a young peasant woman born in the remote heart of China, is married to Kongzi, a village school teacher, and a distant...

When Dorothy came back from the dead, it seemed to Aaron that some people simply didn’t notice.

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The fifth novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Free Love, The Past and Late in the Day, Clever Girl is a tale of an...

After just a year of close, loving marriage, Ruth has been widowed. Her beloved husband, Ben, has been killed in a tragic...

Cyprus, spring 1972. Tensions are rising between the Greek South and the Turkish North. Within two years, the country will become...

A beguiling collection of short stories from award-winning author of Free Love, The Past and Late in the Day, Tessa...

From the author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time comes a novel about families and secrets

Two families....

You are about to discover the secrets of The Quick –

But first, reader, you must travel to Victorian England, and there, in...

The full inside story of the detection of gravitational waves at LIGO, one of the most ambitious feats in scientific history...

Wars come and go across the headlines and television screens, but for those who survive them, scarred and scattered, they never...

What does it take to be a family?

Julia has fallen deeply, unexpectedly in love. James is her second chance, and everything...

What if everything you'd ever wanted was no longer enough?

Adam and Rachel are getting married at last. Childhood sweethearts...

In the ninety-ninth district of a sprawling labour camp, the Author, Musician, Scholar, Theologian and Technician - and hundreds...

How did the human brain evolve? Why did it evolve as it did? What is man’s place in evolution? In the final decades of the...

A horribly violent, but horribly unsuccessful criminal, Lionel’s attentions up to now have all been on his nephew, Desmond...

A deeply moving collection of stories from the bestselling author of Star of the Sea

Ranging from urgently contemporary London...

For Mallory, as for all of his generation, death was but ‘a frail barrier that men crossed, smiling and gallant, every day’. As...

A very, very funny novel about country sports, murder, intrigue - and talking pheasants.

It begins for Basil 'Banger'...

Detective Sigurdur Oli is in trouble.

After a school reunion exposes the chasm between his life and those of his much more...

Mitchell is the laureate of old New York. The hidden corners of the city and the people who lived there are his subject. He...

Melding his native Irish sensibilities to those of his adopted west-coast Scotland, these tales attend to life’s big events: love...

The Alms for Oblivion sequence - an extraordinary series of murders, suicides, affairs, fighting, fires and at least one...

Simon Raven's sequence of colourful and funny novels about the English upper-class misbehaving continues against a backdrop of...

Enter Alms for Oblivion, Simon Raven's dazzling cycle of ten novels, all telling separate stories but at the same time linked...

28 June 1389, the Field of the Blackbirds. A Christian army made up of Serbs, Bosnians, Albanians and Romanians confront an...

Discover this extraordinary and beautiful novel from one of America's greatest novelists.

In rural Illinois two tenant...