In The Guermantes Way Proust's narrator recalls his initiation into the dazzling world of Parisian high society. Looking back...

In Sodom and Gomorrah Proust's narrator not only depicts the class tensions of a changing France at the beginning of the...

In the two novels - The Captive and The Fugitive - contained in this volume, Proust's narrator is living in his mother's...

It was a time of climate change and colonialism, puritans and populism, witch hunts and war . . .

This is the story of a home...

'She's no good, that girl. Much too individualistic'

This is the story of Fenfang who, determined to carve out a life more...

Fred Daniels, a black man, is randomly picked up by the police after a brutal murder in a Chicago suburb. Taken to the local...

'He must know by now, I should think, that I can give as good as I get!'

This is the story of Gigi, educated as a future...

A stirring exploration of war, race and belonging from the Nobel-prize winning author of Beloved.

An angry and self-loathing...

Two men have been enlisted to kill the head of the Gestapo. This is Operation Anthropoid, Prague, 1942: two Czechoslovakian...

Glue is the story of four boys growing up in the Edinburgh schemes, and about the loyalties, the experiences and the secrets that...

Joe Trace - in his fifties, door-to-door salesman of Cleopatra beauty products, erstwhile devoted husband - shoots dead his lover...

Discover an exhilarating novel about power and corruption set in a nation trapped in a cycle as old as time.

This is the story...

The extraordinary literary debut of Salman Rushdie

Flapping Eagle is a young Axona Indian gifted with immortal life after...

When the world is still counting the cost of the Second World War and the Iron Curtain has descended, young Roland Baines's life...

A pandemic has devastated the planet, sorting humanity into two types: the uninfected and the infected, the living and the living...

As London comes alive with the 1960s youth revolution, one woman makes a choice that defies all expectations.

It's 1967 and...

Willa Cather's best-loved novel, and the final book in the Great Plains trilogy, is a beautiful portrayal of friendship, longing...

Having reached her late thirties, a woman considers whether or not to become a mother. Over the course of several years, casting...

A beautiful new hardback edition of Katherine Mansfield's most vivid and distinctive stories.

Katherine Mansfield was the only...

Some doors are kept locked for a reason...

London, 1799. Dora Blake lives with her uncle in what used to be her parents' famed...

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

Mark Renton has it all: he's good-looking, young, with a pretty girlfriend and a bright future. But there's no room for him in...

Emma Bovary is an avid reader of sentimental novels; brought up on a Normandy farm and convent-educated, she longs for romance....

Choose us. Choose life. Choose mortgage payments; choose washing machines; choose cars; choose sitting oan a couch watching...

Celebrating the finest works of the Harlem Renaissance, one of the most important Black arts movements in modern history.

'Why...

Animals don't exist to teach us things, but that is what they have always done, and most of what they teach us is what we think...

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

Reissued to mark the 80th anniversary of Native Son's publication - discover Richard Wright's brutal and gripping masterpiece...

Benji spends most of the year as one of the only black kids at an elite prep school in Manhattan, going to roller disco bar...

Suzuki is just an ordinary maths teacher...until his wife is murdered.
Seeking justice, he leaves his old life behind to...