Bernard Walsh, agnostic theologian, has a professional interest in heaven. But when he travels to Hawaii with his reluctant...

A successful sitcom writer with plenty of money, a stable marraige, a platonic mistress and a flash car, Laurence 'Tubby'...

The restrictions of a wartime childhood in in London and subsequent post-war shortages have done little to enrich Timothy's early...

Polly, Dennis, Angela, Adrian and the rest are bound to lose their spiritual innocence as well as their virginities on the...

When it isn't prison, it's hell.

Or at least that's the heartfelt belief of conscripts Jonathan Browne and Mike 'Ginger'...

A German businessman is the third to die: murdered in a seaside guesthouse.

A note pinned on his body is addressed to Colonel...

Granite, a tough composite of quartz, feldspar and mica, is the stuff of Dartmoor, the most formidable of the five granite bosses...

The stories in Julian Barnes' long-awaited third collection are attuned to rhythms and currents: of the body, of love and sex,...

Written in alternating chapters, W or the Memory of Childhood, tells two parallel tales, in two parts. One is a story created in...

Eleven years old and on the cusp of puberty, Aron Kleinfeld is precocious, imaginative - the leader of his gang of friends. But...

From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Free Love and Late in the Day, discover a story of two lives stretched between two...

The first biography of the rebel baron who deposed and murdered Edward II.

One night in August 1323 a captive rebel baron, Sir...

The Northmen’s Fury tells the Viking story, from the first pinprick raids of the eighth century to the great armies that left...

Mia Holl lives in a state governed by The Method, where good health is the highest duty of the citizen. Everyone must submit...

Julia Blackburn and her husband moved to a little house in the mountains of northern Italy in 1999. She arrived as a stranger but...

Reykjavik, Saturday night

He offered her another margarita, and, as he returned from the bar, he carefully slid the pill into...

The definitive biography of the late Leonard Cohen - singer-songwriter, musician, poet, and novelist.

The genius behind such...

Meet Fahner, the retired small-town doctor who resorts to the garden axe when his patience with his cruel wife runs out.

Meet...

On a small island off the south coast of France, Robert Hendricks - an English doctor who has seen the best and the worst the...

Terrified, a young prisoner in the Second World War closes his eyes and pictures himself going out to bat on a sunlit cricket...

The once-great city of Bohane on the west coast of Ireland is on its knees, infested by vice and split along tribal lines. There...

September 1613.

In Belvoir Castle, the heir of one of England's great noble families falls suddenly and dangerously ill. His...

Book Two of 1Q84 ended with Aomame standing on the Metropolitan Expressway with a gun between her lips.

She knows she is being...

This book is about learning to live.

Echoing Socrates’ statement that the unexamined life not worth living, psychoanalyst...

Michael Beard is a Nobel prize-winning physicist whose best work is behind him. A compulsive womaniser, Beard finds his fifth...

How have the modern world, technology and our addiction to information changed who we are? What effect does it have on our...

Nothing experienced in human history, before or since, eclipses the terror, tragedy and scale of the Black Death, the disease...

A groundbreaking and fascinating biography of England's most famous queen, viewed through the women who influenced her...

Building work in an expanding Reykjavik uncovers a shallow grave.

Years before, this part of the city was all open hills, and...

A seductive collection of stories from the 'magnificent story-teller' (Independent on Sunday). Rose Tremain has sold over one...