When the new Egyptian Pharaoh decrees that he does not want a pyramid built in his honour his advisers are aghast. It is their...

It's the 1970s and cracks are starting to appear in the alliance between China and its Communist cohort Albania. When an Albanian...

Tess is an innocent young girl until the day she goes to visit her rich 'relatives', the D'Urbervilles. Her encounter with her...

Malignant forces and supernatural visitors haunt this selection of superbly spooky tales selected and introduced by Ruth...

Discover the classic Gothic horror novel of haunted cellars, opera, murder and unrequited love that inspired Andrew Lloyd...

Nineteenth-century Europe abounds with conspiracy both ghastly and mysterious. Jesuits plot against Freemasons. Italian priests...

Sir Humphrey du Val of the Table of Less Valued Knights - Camelot's least prestigious table, with one leg shorter than the others...

From one of Spain's greatest writers, a witty, moving novel about art, life, death and James Joyce.

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In the Florida Everglades, gator-park Swamplandia! is in trouble. Its star performer, the great beauty and champion...

One of the most acclaimed debuts of the year - a rumbustuous, brilliant novel about Sri Lanka, cricket and the search for a...

Scenes from Provincial Life brings together, in one volume, J.M. Coetzee’s majestic trilogy of fictionalised memoir, Boyhood,...

I read somewhere that the decision to emigrate comes from a need to breathe.

The hope of a better life is stronger than any...

A transfixing parable of greed, goodness and an extraordinary miracle from the author of The Woman in Black.

Tommy Carr was a...

Tudor tells a family story like no other.

The Tudors are a national obsession, undoubtedly British history's most notorious...

This is a book about leaving your wife and everything you know.

It is about fresh starts, about love, about friendship. It is...

Karl Ove Knausgaard writes about his life with painful honesty. He writes about his childhood and teenage years, his infatuation...

Eva is walking by the river with her seven-year-old daughter when they catch sight of a man’s body in the water. Eva tells her...

Kate, a grieving, semi-alcoholic film student, invites an elderly woman to take part in an oral-history documentary. Jean...

How do you catch a killer who doesn't exist?

One snowy night in the cathedral city of Lafferton, an old woman is dragged from...

Archie Brown challenges the widespread belief that 'strong leaders', dominant individual wielders of power, are the most...

In 2010, Alan Rusbridger, the editor of the Guardian, set himself an almost impossible task: to learn, in the space of a year,...

When Janie Ryan is born, she is destined to be the latest in a long line of Aberdeen fishwives.

Ahead of her lies a life...

Artist Jed Martin emerges from a ten-year hiatus with good news. It has nothing to do with his broken boiler, the approach of...

When he hears her favourite Beatles song, Toru Watanabe recalls his first love Naoko, the girlfriend of his best friend...

How does the novel represent human consciousness on the page?
In eleven sparkling essays on some of the great novelists of the...

Calcutta, 1967. Unnoticed by his family, Supratik has become dangerously involved in extremist political activism. Compelled by...

Anil's Ghost transports us to Sri Lanka, a country steeped in centuries of tradition, now forced into the late twentieth century...

William Cavendish, the father of the first Earl, dissolved monasteries for Henry VIII. Bess, his second wife, was...

In this absorbing volume, David Lodge turns his incisive critical skills onto his own profession, salutes the great writers who...

In this entertaining and enlightening collection David Lodge considers the art of fiction under a wide range of headings, drawing...