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...

An eclectic, eccentiric and altogether brain-bending collection of short stories

An eclectic, eccentric and altogether...

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...

These three brilliant novels span Henry Green's career as a novelist and display his unique talents as a writer. Nothing is a...

Henry Green, whom W. H. Auden called 'the finest living English novelist', is the most neglected writer of the last century and...

Reissued in electric new backlist style for October 2016, The Counterlife was lauded by the likes of John Updike, Martin Amis,...

Dai Wei lies in his bedroom, a prisoner in his body, after he was shot in the head at the Tiananmen Square protest ten years...

The hugely influential book that set Ma Jian on the road to exile from China.

'Outstanding' Irish Times

A Chinese writer...

Jeremy is a child-like, painfully shy bachelor who has never left home. He lives on the third floor of his mother's boarding...

Andalusia is a passion - and fifteen years after his last visit Laurie Lee returned. He found a country broken by the Civil War,...

One warm summer's day at the beach, forty-year-old Cordelia Grinstead, dressed only in a swimsuit and beach robe, walks away from...

When Maxudov's bid to take his own life fails, he dramatises the novel whose failure provoked the suicide attempt. To the...

In a South Africa torn by civil war, Michael K sets out to take his mother back to her rural home. On the way there she dies,...

Did Neil Armstrong really set foot on the moon?

Was the United States government responsible for the 11 September...

Georgy is young, gregarious and fun - she is also large, self-confessedly ugly and desperate for love. Georgy bears her fate...

A wise and witty look at the contemporary migrant experience.

Lev is on his way from Eastern Europe to Britain, seeking work....

In a silent valley in southern France stands an isolated stone farmhouse, the Mas Lunel. Its owner is Aramon Lunel, an alcoholic...

Querry, a world famous architect, is the victim of a terrible attack of indifference: he no longer finds meaning in art or...

A gripping tragicomedy of a bungled kidnapping in a provincial Argentinean town, considered to be one of Greene's finest...

A classic espionage thriller from master storyteller Graham Greene

‘One of the most important British writers of the twentieth...

As his tale begins, Orlando is a passionate young nobleman whose days are spent in rowdy revelry, filled with the colourful...