Paris in the twenties: Pernod, parties and expatriate Americans, loose-living on money from home. Jake is wildly in love with...

Tim Moore completes his epic (and ill-advised) trilogy of cycling's Grand Tours.

Julian Berrendero's victory in the 1941...

A new translation by Michael Morpurgo, author of War Horse

Meet the Little Prince, a young fellow who hails from a tiny,...

A proofreader tinkering with a historical text opens up a world of ambiguity and invention

What happens when the facts of...

Saramago's ingenious fictionalised account of the life of Jesus

Saramago's Jesus is the son not of God but of Joseph. Mary...

A visit from relatives sparks an implosion in the life of a good-natured family man

The decision to invite his Southern...

'One of the great books about Spain' - Tristan Garel-Jones, Observer

A many-tangented pilgrimage through ten centuries of...

'There he was, his trunk wrapped in hers. Whatever hurt or sorrow befell him was not really happening to him. He was on the other...

'You must love the land, my children, and ring it in with your love'

On the island of Wayo Wayo, every second son must leave...

A new translation of Nobel Prize-winning author Halldor Laxness's masterpiece

Late one snowy midwinter night, in a remote...

'I finished it in one sitting. Probably for the tenth time... it carries me along waves of wonder' Franz Kafka

Michael...

'I planted a dog rose. Then I found a curious piece of driftwood and used this, and one of the necklaces of holey stones on the...

Young and confident, with a swagger in her step, Sugar arrives in the southern town of Bigelow hoping to start over. Soon Bigelow...

'A magnum opus... Puts the reader at the heart of the horror that came to be called the Atlanta child murders' Toni...

The lost novel from the author of The Second Sex

When Andree joins her school, Sylvie is immediately fascinated. Andree is...

On a property in New South Wales, a man named Holland lives with his daughter, Ellen. As years pass and Ellen grows into a...

Winner of the National Jewish Book Award and finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award.

A youthful tale of geriatric...

Discover a powerful collection of the hardships, hairbreadth escapes, and mortal struggles of enslaved people seeking freedom:...

'A brilliant and seemingly effortless accomplishment...steady uninterrupted delight' Sunday Telegraph

Faculty wife Emily...

'Delightful... Her characters are, as always, wonderfully imperfect' New York Review of Books

Alan has changed because he's...

'Marvellous entertainment' Sunday Times

Just married and newly arrived in Los Angeles are Paul and Katherine Cattleman. Paul...

'If you're coming to Lurie for the first time, you must begin with the Pulitzer Prize-winning Foreign Affairs' Guardian...

Rebecca Solnit retells 'Cinderella'. A Fairy Tale Revolution is here to remix and revive our favourite stories.

'She looked...

When Tom Cutter hires Constantine Shaklin as an engineer in his air freight business, he little realises the extraordinary gifts...

'Masterful and beautifully written. Riveting and compellingly authentic. Grips you like a vice from the first page and never lets...

When Michael Dillon is ordered by the IRA to park his car in the carpark of a Belfast hotel, he is faced with a moral choice...

Set in the Northern Ireland of the 1980s, Cal tells the story of a young Catholic man living in a Protestant area. For Cal, some...

Woolf's textured prose invites us into each of the characters' minds as we follow them on a winding, decade-long journey to the...

A high-pitched laugh echoes in an empty church. Servants discover their master dead in his bed, the only sign of disturbance an...

One hundred and fifty years ago, at the request of her publisher, Louisa May Alcott sat down reluctantly to write 'a girls'...