Ben Joe is the only boy in a family of six sisters, Mama and Gram.

He is studying for a law degree in New York when he hears...

Tourists come to Bangkok for many reasons: a night of love, a stay in a luxury hotel, or simply to disappear for a while....

Simon Axler is one of America's leading classical stage actors, but his talent - his magic - has deserted him. All the...

Why have all human cultures - today and throughout history - made music? Why does music excite such rich emotion? How do we make...

The first novel from the great, incomparable Thomas Pynchon.

The quest for V. sweeps us through sixty years and a panorama of...

Tyrone Slothrop, a GI in London in 1944, has a big problem. Whenever he gets an erection, a Blitz bomb hits. Slothrop gets...

It began with a spark...

A house is burning. Its six tenants include a failed priest, a naturalist, a neurosurgeon and a...

Mount Kailas is the most sacred of the world's mountains - holy to one fifth of humanity. Isolated beyond the central Himalayas,...

Henry VIII, renowned for his command of power and celebrated for his intellect, presided over one of the most magnificent-and...

Discover the extraordinary story of the woman who brought China into the modern age, from the bestselling author of Wild...

One cold autumn night, a woman is found hanging from a beam at her holiday cottage. At first sight, it appears like a...

We are poised on the edge of discovery in particle physics (the study of the smallest objects we know of) and cosmology (the...

In a sleepy hamlet in north Sweden, the local police make a chilling discovery; nineteen people have been brutally slaughtered....

Summer of 1911. English society is on the brink of change. The streets of London ring with cheers for a new king's coronation and...

Liverpool, 1939. Lonely historian Tom Baines is at work on a study of the city's architectural past but the ominous news from...

Rediscover the extraodinary power of nature and the British wilderness, from award-winning naturalist and author Richard...

Discover the first classic Sherlock Holmes novel in this stunning edition, featuring an introduction from Mark Billingham. The is...

First published in 1964 and 1965, In His Own Write and A Spaniard in the Works are a brilliantly inventive and offbeat collection...

Paddy Clarke is ten years old. Paddy Clarke lights fires. Paddy Clarke's name is written in wet cement all over Barrytown. Paddy...

These seven stories were the last that Carver wrote. Among them is one of his longest, 'Errand', in which he imagines the death...

With this, his first collection, Carver breathed new life into the short story. In the pared-down style that has since become his...

Raymond Carver said it was possible 'to write about commonplace things and objects using commonplace but precise language and...

After the early death of her philandering husband, Etsuko moves into her father-in-law's house, where she numbly submits to the...

Jean Paget is just twenty years old and working in Malaya when the Japanese invasion begins.

When she is captured she joins a...

After the war is over, a radioactive cloud begins to sweep southwards on the winds, gradually poisoning everything in its path....

The mysterious death of a young woman on an Australian farm reveals a bittersweet story of doomed wartime romance amidst a family...

Nevil Shute’s classic Second World War novel is an uplifting, satisfying and moving story.

John Howard is determined to...

Nevil Shute was a power and a pioneer in the world of flying long before he began to write the stories that made him a...

Through a series of mishaps, Henry Warren, a recently divorced City financier, ends up in hospital in a Northern town ruined by...

When Johnny Pascoe attempts to rescue a sick girl from the Tasmanian outback his plane crashes leaving him dangerously injured....