A gunman is terrorising young women.

What links these seemingly random murders? Is the marksman with a rifle the same person...

Two local prostitutes are found brutally strangled.

Serrailler is called back urgently from his sabbatical but by the time he...

A strikingly powerful novel exploring the motivations of a suicide bomber in Israel, told through the eyes of her husband.

Now...

Kate Flynn has always been a clever girl, brought up to believe in herself as something special. Now Kate is forty-three and has...

Everyday life crackles with the electricity sparking between men and women, between parents and children, between friends. A son...

Behind the large house, the fragrant camomile lawn stretches down to the Cornish cliffs. Here, in the dizzying heat of August...

A tangled tale of falling in love - with three very different men.

Flora Trevelyan is a ten-year-old misfit, despised by her...

When, on the night of their wedding, Ned asks his new wife Rose to promise that she will never leave him, Rose is quick to give...

The first novel by Joseph O'Connor, bestselling author of Star of the Sea and Shadowplay.

Eddie Virago, proud owner of the...

Philip Roth's debut novella and Winner of the National Book Award for Fiction

Goodbye, Columbus is the story of Neil Klugman...

The world's finest living short story writer turns to her family for inspiration; and what follows is a fictionalised,...

A haunting yet humorous evocation of a society dangerously trapped in its past.

Two Irish-American scholars from Harvard...

Lost, found, stolen, strayed, sold, fought over... This engrossing, beautifully crafted novel follows the fictional adventures,...

In the summer of 1989, at Tel-Kedar, a small settlement in the Negev Desert, the long time love affair between Theo, a...

A compulsively readable account of an African country now virtually inaccessible to the outside world and one journalist's daring...

A sensational short story collection from Britain's master of the genre.

Charting tantrums, funerals, pregnancy and love...

A bestseller in several countries, this enchanting novel about a collection of misfits in Paris is quirky, poignant and...

Two lost masterpieces of French literature gathered together in one volume for the first time.

From the author of the...

From the author of the bestselling Suite Franзaise.

Translated by Sandra Smith, with an introduction by Patrick Marnham.

In...

Paul Rayment is on the threshold of a comfortable old age when a calamitous cycling accident results in the amputation of a leg....

'A brilliant hybrid of reportage, fiction, and historical fact that tells the stories of three black men whose tragic lives speak...

Of all the great novelists writing today, none shows the same gift as Martin Amis for writing non-fiction - his essays, literary...

'The best thing Martin Amis has done in fiction for years' Literary Review
There were conjugal visits in the slave camps of the...

There aren't many scientists famous enough in their lifetime to be canonized by the US Congress as one of America's 'living...

Everything changes for the four Mellow children the day they find a book called Pleasuring on the shelf.

It is written by...

Gabe Wallach, freshly discharged from the Korean War army, reeling from his mother's recent death, and thus freed from old...

Philip Roth's writing career spans a remarkable five decades, a period that has seen him rise to become one of the greatest...

When she was still a child, Lucy Nelson had her irresponsible, alcoholic father thrown in jail. Since then, Lucy has become a...

The story of modern Australia begins in eighteenth-century Britain, where people were hanged for petty offences but crime was...

At college in 1980s Luton, Robbie Goulding, an Irish-born teenager, meets the elusive Fran Mulvey, an orphaned Vietnamese...