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...

Pleasure is one of the most fascinating aspects of being human. But what is it?

Exploring child development, philosophy,...

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...

A dazzling novel of loyalty and dreams set in Restoration England.

The gaudy years of the Restoration are long gone and Robert...

Every morning Hakan von Enke takes a walk in the forest near his apartment in Stockholm. Then, one day he fails to come...

After ten years' journeying Odysseus returns, again and again, to Ithaca. Each time he finds something different: his patient...

Either you kill the bull, or the bull kills you - traditional proverb.

Chief Inspector Max Camara hates bullfighting but one...

A nostalgic and very funny celebration of the slightly slapdash place we call home: Great Britain

Would you cheer if they sent...

We last saw Henry Smart, his leg severed in an accident with a railway boxcar, crawl into the Utah desert to die - only to be...

One autumn evening, not long after ending a stint as a pop music critic, Eric Siblin attended a recital of Johann Sebastian...

Ora, a middle-aged Israeli mother, is about to celebrate her son Ofer's release from army service when he returns to the front...

It is a few days before Christmas and a Reykjavik doorman and occasional Santa Claus, Gudlauger, has been found stabbed to death...

The essential crime book of our times, from the author of the bestselling McMafia.

Shortlisted for the Orwell Prize 2012

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