'Why, what is pomp, rule, reign, but earth and dust?
And, live we how we can, yet die we must'

What is the true meaning of...

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...

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

'Extraordinarily mature - technically as well as emotionally' Sunday Times

Arthur Machin's life changes when he is picked for...

A packet of letters, found in an attic, leads young Jane into the world of love. The attic is in Montefort, a corroding country...

Discover the classic, Man Booker Prize shortlisted novel from one of India's finest ever writers.

To the family living in the...

The final novel in world renowned film-maker, Ingmar Bergman's trilogy of novels plotting the fractious marriage of his...

Braungart... , McDonough...

Michael Braungart and William McDonough propose a plan for our planet in this stunning new edition of their radical ecological...

‘A sophisticated and brilliant dissection of nihilistic power’ Times Literary Supplement

From his prison cell, Antonio...

'A fine and powerful piece of work… Dark, at times cryptic, and hugely energetic' Irish Times

"No!" is the first word of this...

‘Liquidation, suspenseful and bleakly comic, reads like a treatise on the mystery of the end of life and the mystery of suicide…...

If you loved BBC4's Hemingway, read Ernest Hemingway's adventure novel set on the verge of the tropics.

Harry Morgan is a...

Discover Kingsley Amis's classic James Bond tie-in. First published in 1968, four years after Ian Fleming's death, this was the...

An illuminating portrait of a world in ferment after the First world War, and a man seeking an authentic life.

Early this...

Virginia Woolf's most unusual and fantastic creation, a funny, exuberant tale that examines the very nature of sexuality.

As...

Espionage, adventure and a hard-boiled heroine not to be trifled with - this classic noir will have you gripped from start to...

A poetic meditation on life and death, by one of the most renowned and respected film-makers and intellectuals of our time.

In...

As a child, Luke’s mother often tells him the story of the Dumb House, an experiment on newborn babies raised in silence,...

At the age of sixteen, Marc Hamer left home with only a rucksack and started walking. By day, he observed the animals and birds....

A spellbinding travel book, exploring the psychology of walking, pilgrimage, solitude and escape.

'An extraordinary, dreamlike...

Meet Charlie Savage.

Charlie is a middle-aged Dubliner with an indefatigable wife, an exasperated daughter, a drinking buddy...

It is four years since the loss of a child broke her marriage, and Elizabeth is fiercely protective of her independence. She...

The lives of two close-knit couples are irrevocably changed by an untimely death in this Sunday Times bestselling novel

Alex...

London, 1941. The city is in blackout and an enemy is hiding in plain sight.

Jack Hoste has become entangled in a national...

Professor Chandra is about to embark on the trip of a lifetime.

In the moments after the bicycle accident, Professor Chandra...

On a bitterly cold winter’s afternoon, Michael and Caitlin escape their unhappy marriages to keep an illicit rendezvous. Once a...

The breathtaking short story collection from the Costa-shortlisted Irish writer

Three gunshots on the Irish border define the...

A powerful, personal agenda-changing exploration of poverty in today's Britain.

'When every day of your life you have been...

A novel about the brutality of fame and what happens when fandom turns to obsession, from the Booker-shortlisted author of The...

An odyssey of loss and salvation ranging across four generations of fathers and sons, in the finest tradition of American...