A cautionary horror story about the dangers of greed, isolation and a science without ethics, from the father of science...

If you loved BBC4's Hemingway, rediscover this poignant story of the inability to capture lost youth, by the Nobel Prize-winning...

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

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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.

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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.

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Wilfred Davis, quiet, retired, respectable widower, is sitting and sobbing on a park bench. He has lost his daughter and any...

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

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When Lucy Mangan was little, stories were everything. They opened up different worlds and cast new light on this one.

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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 bittersweet novel of family and self-discovery from the bestselling, award-winning author of A Spool of Blue Thread

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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...

Czechoslovakia, October 1937. Vast crowds have gathered to watch the Grand Pardubice steeplechase, Europe's most blood-curdling...

A warm and immersive novel about ambition, power, women, friendship and finding your place in the world, from the bestselling...

15th century Oakham, in Somerset; a tiny village cut off by a big river with no bridge. When a man is swept away by the river in...

One of the first things I was told when I arrived in Kabul was never to walk...

When journalist Taran Khan arrives in Kabul,...

Rose Tremain (or Rosie as she was then) grew up in post-war London – a city still partly in ruins, where both food and affection...

If you open that suitcase you'll never close it again.

Ten years ago, Frances Stonor Saunders was handed an old suitcase...

Too often we take for granted and neglect our libraries, parks, markets, schools, playgrounds, gardens and communal spaces, but...