What if this world is just a first draft, made by some great artist in order to be destroyed?
In this first draft, a woman named...

An 'autobiographical collage' of speeches, stories and essays, in Palm Sunday, Kurt Vonnegut writes beguilingly about everything...

One frozen January morning at 5am, Inspector Wallander responds to what he believes is a routine call out. When he reaches the...

Gigi’s days are filled with cigars, lobster, lace and superstitions: the education of a future courtesan. Bored and unconvinced...

A young boy wakes to find his mother missing. Outside, he sees her favourite scarf - wrapped around the neck of a...

We have to learn to live as part of nature, not apart from it. And the first step is to start looking after the insects, the...

'You’ll start with a blank map, that doesn’t do more than show roughly what’s water and what isn’t’

When the Walker family’s...

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

Nestled along the Adriatic coastline, the kingdom of Averna has suddenly - and suspiciously - become the hottest property in...

A ground-breaking and beautifully written investigation into the Arctic Treeline with an urgent environmental message.

The...

The Bass Rock has for centuries watched over the lives that pass under its shadow on the Scottish mainland. And across the...

In his eightieth year, Colin Thubron takes a dramatic and often treacherous journey from the Amur's secret source to its giant...

A missing woman. A missing boy. Detective Erlendur returns - for the last time

A young woman walks into the frozen fjords of...

The characters in this extraordinary book are often - on the surface - depraved, vicious, cowardly and manipulative, but their...

The authoratitive text

'There are occasions where it pays better to fight and be beaten than not to fight at all'

Both a...

If you love Noel Streatfeild's Ballet Shoes,you'll adore The Bell Family.

'Well, little people, what's the news?'

Meet the...

Macon ‘Milkman’ Dead was born shortly after a neighbourhood eccentric hurled himself off a rooftop in a vain attempt at flight....

Three times a day in a Parisian square, a curious modern-day crier announces the news items that are left in his box. Over the...

Jim Francis has finally found the perfect life – and is now unrecognisable, even to himself. A successful painter and sculptor,...

Hilarious, shocking and hugely entertaining, Reheated Cabbage has all the classic Irvine Welsh ingredients

In Reheated Cabbage...

A passenger is missing...but was she ever on board at all?

This was meant to be the perfect trip. The Northern Lights. A...

On the outskirts of Paris, two men have been found with their throats cut. In Normandy, two stags have been killed and their...

Between 1943 and 2003 nine people have been stabbed to death with a most unusual weapon: a trident. In each case, arrests were...

Discover this amazing adventure story set in the Second World War

'If you meet Ruth or Edek or Bronia, you must tell them I'm...

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

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

A little boy is snatched at the gate of his home while he waits for his lift to school.

An ex-con struggling to go straight...

1945: a lost German bomber crashes on the Vatnajцkull glacier in Iceland.

Inexplicably, in the midst of World War Two, there...

Discover Virginia Woolf’s informative and erudite critical essays on some of the key novelists and dramatists of the canon – from...

A searing and magnificent picture of Australia at the moment of its foundation, with early settlers staking out their small patch...