A vivid, believable love story between an older woman and a younger man.

Lea de Lonval is a magnificent and aging courtesan...

'We read in order to come to life.'
With fierce imagination, a woman revisits the moments that shape her life; from crushes on...

He was the very first icon of the silver screen, and is one of the most recognisable faces in Hollywood, even a hundred years on...

Agatha Christie called her 'a shining light'. Have you discovered Margery Allingham, the 'true queen' of the classic murder...

During the course of a single night, Father Sebastian Urrutia Lacroix, a Chilean priest, who is a member of Opus Dei, a literary...

The extraordinary new story collection from one of Ireland's greatest writers and bestselling author of Mindwinter...

C L R James, one of the foremost thinkers of the twentieth century, was devoted to the game of cricket. In this classic summation...

It is the mid-1800s and as slavery looks to be coming to an end, Sethe is haunted by the violent trauma it wrought on her former...

Detective Paul Hjelm and his team receive an urgent call from the FBI. A murderer whose methods bear a frightening resemblance to...

Autumn begins with a letter Karl Ove Knausgaard writes to his unborn daughter. He adds one short piece each day, describing the...

In the first month of the First World War the Russian campaign against the Germans creaks into gear. Crippled by weak, indecisive...

A thrilling new history of the disastrous years of indecision, failed diplomacy and parliamentary infighting that enabled Hitler...

Commissaire Adamsberg has left Paris for a police conference in London, accompanied by anglophile Commandant Danglard and...

Discover the world as you've never seen it before - through the eyes of animals

The Earth teems with sights and textures,...

Some cases aren’t as cold as you’d think

Kurt Wallander’s life looks like it has taken a turn for the better when his offer on...

How did the good life go so wrong?

Amy Connell and Lan Honey are having the best childhood. When their families make the leap...

A charming extraordinary early 20th century novel about family relationships.

When the great statesman Lord Slane dies,...

Alfred Hitchcock was a strange child. Fat, lonely, burning with fear and ambition, his childhood was an isolated one, scented...

Highly original and magnificent in scope, Albion: The Origins of the English Imagination discovers the roots of English cultural...

An unsettling and absorbing tale from the bestselling author of The Woman in Black.

Celibate, irreproachable and...

You already know these stereotypes. So often Africa is depicted simplistically as an arid red landscape of famines and safaris,...

John Cheever - the 'Chekhov of the suburbs' - forever altered the landscape of contemporary literature. In a career that spanned...

A Treacherous Paradise sees Henning Mankell turn his talents for writing gripping thrillers to a world where power and...

Bobby is eighteen and lost on the battlefields of Europe, stumbling his way through World War II. He has turned out to be the...

This volume combines two books which were among the greatest contributions to feminist literature this century. Together they...

On the day that Jacob, an Anglo-Dutch trader, agrees to accept a slave in lieu of payment for a debt from a plantation owner,...

Marital troubles? Sick of life? Suicide the answer? Why not get yourself a contract killer?
Nothing easier, provided you...

Grimm... , Hoffmann...

Eine frohliche Weihnachten - A Merry Christmas - made all the more joyful with these literary treats redolent of candle-lit...

The brilliant new novel from the winner of the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize.

On the eve of Angolan independence, Ludo...

A rampaging force of nature is wreaking havoc on the streets of Edinburgh, but has top shagger, drug-dealer, gonzo-porn-star and...