The contract killer.

Olav lives the lonely life of a fixer. When you 'fix' people for a living - terminally - it's hard to...

The contract killer.

Olav lives the lonely life of a fixer. When you 'fix' people for a living - terminally - it's hard to get...

Sonny's on the run.

Sonny is a model prisoner. He listens to the confessions of other inmates and absolves them of their sins....

The twentieth anniversary edition of Allison Pearson's first novel that became a global sensation, now with a new introduction...

Paris in the twenties: Pernod, parties and expatriate Americans, loose-living on money from home. Jake is wildly in love with...

A black maid forms a close bond with the daughter of the cruel white couple for whom she works. Two rich, white artists hire a...

One long night in August, Arne and Tove are staying with their children in their summer house in southern Norway. Kathrine, a...

Tim Moore completes his epic (and ill-advised) trilogy of cycling's Grand Tours.

Julian Berrendero's victory in the 1941...

A family story and the tale of a nation.

Ai Weiwei - one of the world's most famous artists and activists - weaves a...

Abandoned as a baby, Alfgrimur is content to spend his days as a fisherman living in the turf cottage outside Reykjavik with the...

Elizabeth Morison is an ordinary woman.

Yet, to eight-year-old Bunny, his mother is the centre of his universe. To Robert, her...

An intense and surreal romance set against the politics of eighteenth-century Lisbon from Nobel Prize-winning author Jose...

A delightful journey through time and through the streets of one of the greatest cultural capitals in Europe.

A magnet for...

A profoundly intelligent book about identity: how the individual defines it and how different cultures perceive and construct...

A proofreader tinkering with a historical text opens up a world of ambiguity and invention

What happens when the facts of...

A majestic tale, rich in allegory, wit and philosophy; another masterpiece from the Nobel prize-winning novelist Jose...

A subtle and insightful story about boredom, passion, curiosity and memory from the Nobel Prize-winner Jose Saramago

A subtle...

Saramago's ingenious fictionalised account of the life of Jesus

Saramago's Jesus is the son not of God but of Joseph. Mary...

A visit from relatives sparks an implosion in the life of a good-natured family man

The decision to invite his Southern...

'One of the great books about Spain' - Tristan Garel-Jones, Observer

A many-tangented pilgrimage through ten centuries of...

Reunion is a little-known novel. But it is also a universal story of friendship. It is a book of great power, waiting to be...

Carrington's beguiling letters take us beyond the Bloomsbury group to discuss sexual mores, how to be an artist, and what it is...

What was so dangerous about Queen Victoria's artistic tempestuous sixth child, Princess Louise?

When Lucinda Hawksley started...

In the autumn of 1502 three giants of the Renaissance period - Cesare Borgia, Leonardo da Vinci and Niccolo Machiavelli - set out...

From the saviour of the realm to the subject of multiple attempted assassinations in the space of six years. King Henry IV's...

A woman takes a holiday in the Austrian mountains, spending a few days with her cousin and his wife in their hunting lodge. When...

'And so, with great care, he planted his hundred acorns'

While hiking through the wild lavender in a wind-swept, desolate...

Kafka Tamura runs away from home at fifteen, under the shadow of his father's dark prophesy.

The aging Nakata, tracker of lost...

'There he was, his trunk wrapped in hers. Whatever hurt or sorrow befell him was not really happening to him. He was on the other...

'This is not our world with trees in it. It's a world of trees, where humans have just arrived'

This is the story of a group...