In this extraordinary novel, Stingo, an inexperienced twenty-two year old Southerner, takes us back to the summer of 1947 and a...

Diane Arbus's startling photographic images of dwarfs, twins, transvestites, and freaks seemed from the first to redefine both...

'Lynne Reid Banks' compassionate first novel examines the stigma of unmarried motherhood in pre-pill, pre-Abortion Act Britain......

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Michael and Pauline seemed like the perfect couple - young, good-looking, made for each other.

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'Shoot all the Bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a Mockingbird.'

Atticus Finch gives...

When Klara appears in Paris, two months after the end of the war and years after her disappearance into Auschwitz, her best...

Set mainly in Uzbekistan between 1900 and 1980, The Railway introduces to us the inhabitants of the small town of Gilas on the...

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The year is 1327. Franciscans in a wealthy Italian abbey are suspected of...

Since the ascendancy of the Taliban the lives of Mosheen and his beautiful wife, Zunaira, have been gradually destroyed....

Stifled by the torpor of colonial South Africa and trapped in a web of reciprocal oppression, a lonely sheep farmer seeks comfort...

From the author of the widely acclaimed Heat, an exhilarating account of Bill Buford's adventures in the world of French...

For thirty-five year old Charlotte Emory, leaving her husband seems to offer the only way out from the mundaneness of every day...

Joyce Stevenson is thirteen when her widowed mother takes them to live with Aunt Vera, a formidable teacher neglected by her...

Denis Stone, a naive young poet, is invited to stay at Crome, a country house renowned for its gatherings of 'bright young...

Smooth-talking, sensual and self-deluded, Gregory Riding leads an existence of formidable foppishness, his days and nights a...

Watching a rented video, Tertuliano Maximo Afonso is shocked to notice that one of the actors is identical to him in every...

Hubert Anvil is a 10 year old boy blessed with the voice of an angel. The Church hierarchy decrees that Hubert should be turned...

Like all good coaching inns, The Green Man is said to boast a resident ghost: Dr Thomas Underhill, a notorious...

Elegant, provocative and hugely entertaining, Kingsley Amis's memoirs are filled with anecdotes, experiences and portraits of...

Malcolm, Peter and Charlie and their Soave-sodden wives have one main ambition left in life: to drink Wales dry. But their...

The Essential Hemingway brings together a wide selection of Hemingway's works, providing the perfect introduction to his...

Green Hills of Africa is Ernest Hemingway's lyrical journal of a month on safari in the great game country of East Africa, where...

A serial killer is terrorising the people of Bologna and rookie Detective Inspector Grazia Negro is determined to solve the case....

A gripping time-slip novel by the author of the 2022 Booker Prize-longlisted Treacle Walker

Here John Turner was cast away in...

Every week, a writer of political propaganda and a professional blood donor meet for dinner. They are unlikely friends - one of...

Two boys grow up in Thomaston, upstate New York. One of them gets away to Italy, where he becomes a painter. The other stays to...

Manet, Monet, Pissarro, Cezanne, Renoir, Degas, Sisley, Berthe Morisot and Mary Cassatt.

Though they were often ridiculed or...

Acute, questioning, humane and passionately concerned for justice, Helena Kennedy is one of the most powerful voices in legal...

Mike Engleby has a secret...

This is the story of Mike Engleby, a working-class boy in the seventies who wins a place at an...