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.

Harry Morgan is a...

Sherlock star Mark Gatiss selects and introduces chilling tales by the unsung master of the classic ghost story - E.F....

Lisbon, late-1940s. The inhabitants of an old apartment block are struggling to make ends meet. There's the elderly shoemaker and...

This deeply personal work, follows the changing fortunes of the Mau-Tempo family – poor, landless peasants not unlike the...

For two years Solomon the elephant has lived in Lisbon. Now King Dom Joao III wishes to make him a wedding gift for a Hapsburg...

Despite the heavy rain, the officer at Polling Station 14 finds it odd that by midday on National Election day, only a handful of...

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.

Early this...

In his first collection, George Saunders' vision of our near future is as black and funny as you can get. He takes us on a trip...

Escape to the Cornish cliffs in the dizzying heat of August 1939, where five cousins are making the most of the last summer of...

Enter the gas-lit streets of post-war Prague, the steelworks run by singed men, the covered market that smells of new-born babes,...

An enjoyable 19th century read following doomed happenings and grisly, secret premonitions.

An eminent doctor is visited by a...

Virginia Woolf's most unusual and fantastic creation, a funny, exuberant tale that examines the very nature of sexuality.

As...

Espionage, adventure and a hard-boiled heroine not to be trifled with - this classic noir will have you gripped from start to...

Nik Cohn began to write this book in the late 1960s with a simple purpose: to catch the feel, the pulse of Rock. Nobody had...

Mrs Wilkins and Mrs Arbuthnot, cowed and neglected by their husbands, make a daring plan: they will have a holiday. Leaving a...

A poetic meditation on life and death, by one of the most renowned and respected film-makers and intellectuals of our time.

In...

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

Creepy. Peculiar. Fairy. Goblin. Liar. Weirdo. Crank. Genius.

No one knows what to make of Juliet Slater, not even her mother....

From the corner of a darkened room Joy Stone watches herself. As memories of the deaths of her lover and mother surface unbidden,...

From the infamous Glasgow slum, the Gorbals, Tam Clay chronicles a week in his life, in the last days before the demolishers move...

As a child, Luke’s mother often tells him the story of the Dumb House, an experiment on newborn babies raised in silence,...

It is off-season in a remote Highland sea port: twenty-one-year-old Morvern Callar, a low-paid employee in the local supermarket,...

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...

A dazzling, provocative debut story collection from celebrated Indonesian writer Intan Paramaditha, putting fierce female...

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

Alex...