As a child Ludo is plucked out of the shantytown where he was born and transported to a world of languid, cosseted luxury. Now...

In August 1914 the two greatest navies in the world confronted each other across the North Sea. At first there were skirmishes,...

Making peace in Northern Ireland was the greatest success of the Blair government, and one of the greatest achievements in...

One of the most powerful monarchs in British history, Henry VIII ruled England in unprecedented splendour.

In this remarkable...

Eleanor, Duchess of Aquitaine was one of the leading personalities of the Middle Ages and also one of the most controversial. She...

When the Khurana boys and their friend Mansoor set out for one of Delhi's markets, disaster strikes without warning. A 'small'...

Beautiful, twisted and brilliant - discover Yoko Ogawa.

A lonely teenage girl falls in love with her foster-brother as she...

There's something wrong next door. At least, that's what neighbors Howie Jeffries and Emily Phane both think. Since his daughter...

This is the archetypal story of the American West. Whether it is cast as a tale of unmatched bravery in the face of impossible...

An unnamed author waits in a bar in Tel Aviv on a stifling hot night. He is there to give a reading of his work but as he sits,...

First publication of a new collection of the Booker Prize-winner's stories including those from her most recent hardback 'Taking...

Blunt, brutal, but infused with a deep sympathy, Knockemstiff is a pitch-dark and hilarious collection of stories set in a tiny...

The twentieth century has been called 'the American Century'. Not since the days of the Roman emperors has there been such a...

The prequel to the bestselling Suite Francaise

Paris 1918, Bernard Jacquelain returns from the trenches a changed man.

The...

Discover the addictive first book in the bestselling Harry Hole series.

'A stunning opening to the series' Sunday...

Vienna, 1903.

Outside one of the city's most splendid baroque churches, the decapitated body of a monk is found. Then, the...

Discover Charles Darwin's most important ideas...

When the eminent naturalist Charles Darwin returned from South America on...

Sterne's utterly original novel - the meandering, maddening 'autobiography' of one of literature's oldest comic...

Maggie and Tom Tulliver are both wilful, passionate children, and their relationship has always been tempestuous. As they grow up...

A heartwarming and poignant tale of a lonely man brought back to life and faith.

Silas Marner lives a friendless and isolated...

'A masterpiece' The Times

After the tragic deaths of their parents, Magdalen and Norah discover the devastating news that they...

'As a writer of the English language there has been no one to touch Stevenson in a hundred years...as a story-teller he is...

A brilliant story of intrigue, retribution, revenge and redemption.

Imprisoned for a crime he didn't commit, Edmond Dantes...

'I think I could be a good woman if I had five thousand a year'


Becky Sharp is a poor orphan when she first makes friends...

'Facts alone are wanted in life'

The children at Mr Gradgrind's school are sternly ordered to stifle their imaginations and...

The Art of Love may have been written in the days of gladiators and emperors, but Ovid remains the smartest teacher on the...

Young, newly married and intensely ambitious, Michael Davenport is trying to make a living as a writer. His adoring wife, Lucy,...

Hailed as a masterpiece from its first publication, Revolutionary Road is the story of Frank and April Wheeler, a bright young...

The stories in Liars in Love are concerned with troubled relations and the elusive nature of truth. Whether it be in the...

First published in 1962, a year after Revolutionary Road, this sublime collection of stories seems even more powerful today. Out...