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

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

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,...

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

Celibate, irreproachable and...

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...

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

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...

Ebenezer Scrooge despises Christmas. He has no time for festivities or goodwill toward his fellow men and is only interested in...

Since the 1990 publication of her first collection, Four Bare Legs in a Bed, Helen Simpson has been hailed as one of the best...

A lieutenant writes of digging through bodies that have the consistency of Camembert cheese; a mother sends flower seeds to her...

The prequel to The Crown: the first truly candid portrait of George V and Mary, the Queen's grandparents and creators of the...

'My dear girls, stop your mud-pies and hear the news!'

Ten years after Little Men, the boys that Jo raised are all grown-up....

When Mercy Garrett moves herself out of the family home, everyone determines not to notice.

All she wants is space and...

A student moves to the city to research Gothic nudes, renting an apartment from a painter, Agnes, who lives in another town with...

In this hugely powerful book, Karen Armstrong argues that it isn't enough to change our behaviour to avert environmental...

Matt Rowland Hill grew up the son of a minister in an evangelical Christian church. It was a childhood fraught with bitter family...

Welcome to Lapvona. In a village in a medieval fiefdom buffeted by natural disasters, a motherless shepherd boy finds himself at...

Stopping to use a cash machine one evening, a man falls to the ground: dead. A taxi driver is brutally murdered by two teenage...

This is a story of East and West. A story of love, betrayal, and lost illusions...

The end of the Cold War seems unimaginable...

The Quick

A woman swims in a remote, milky-blue lagoon. Steam rises from the water and as it clears, a body is revealed in the...

'The world wavered and quivered and threatened to burst into flames'

In this vivid portrait of one day in a woman's life,...

The meeting of Voltaire, successful financier, famous poet and troublemaker, and the enchanting amateur physicist and countess...

Rediscover Gladys Mitchell – one of the 'Big Three' female crime fiction writers alongside Agatha Christie and Dorothy L....

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

Midsummer approaches, and Inspector Kurt Wallander prepares for a holiday with the new woman in his life, hopeful that his...

A murder. A world in crisis. Britain's greatest spy . . .

It is M's funeral. One man is missing from the graveside: the...