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...

Years on from Trainspotting Sick Boy is back in Edinburgh after a long spell in London. Having failed spectacularly as a hustler,...

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...

Venice, 1522. Intelligence arrives from the east confirming Europe's greatest fear: the vastly rich Ottoman Sultan has all he...

'She was a fool and he knew it and because he loved her it had made no difference'

Kitty Fane is the beautiful but shallow...

'We couldn't go on indefinitely being swept off our feet'

One of the great literary curios of the twentieth century Save Me...

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

In his first novel, Werner Herzog tells a hypnotic tale inspired by the true story of a Japanese soldier who defended a small...

This collection of Vonnegut's letters is the autobiography he never wrote - from the letter he posted home upon being freed from...

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

"Hey! Cheeses, what an idea! I kill your wife and you kill my father! We meet on a train, see, and nobody knows we know each...

Jean-Baptiste Adamsberg is not like other policemen. His methods appear unorthodox in the extreme: he doesn't search for clues;...

A girl shares her secret den. A couple stroll through a ruined city. A man walks into a ladies' hat shop. A teacher dreams of...

Thomas More is one of the great figures in English history. Pre-eminent as a courtier and as a humanist, a friend to Henry VIII...