Boston, 1980

Ada Sibelius is twelve years old and home-schooled. Her days are spent in a lab with her father David, a computer...

A jury gathers in Manhattan to select a memorial for the victims of a devastating terrorist attack. Their fraught deliberations...

The Shore. A collection of small islands sticking out from the coast of Virginia into the Atlantic Ocean that has been home to...

When Henry McAllan moves his city-bred wife, Laura, to a cotton farm in the Mississippi Delta in 1946, she finds herself in a...

Hazel has just moved into a trailer park of senior citizens, with her father and Diane - his sex doll companion. Life with...

The Balkan Trilogy is the story of a marriage and of a war, a vast, teeming, and complex masterpiece in which Olivia Manning...

Bucharest, 1940. The city is on the brink of invasion and Guy and Harriet Pringle find their position growing ever more...

Athens, 1941. Harriet Pringle feverishly awaits news of her husband, trapped in the spoilt city of Bucharest. Yet when the young...

In the winter of 1952, Isabel Carey moves to the East Riding of Yorkshire with her husband Philip, a GP. With Philip spending...

The Forest of Pendle used to be a hunting ground, but some say that the hill is the hunter - alive in its black-and-green coat...

How long does it take to change the world?
Could it happen in approximately twenty minutes?

Charles, a forty-year-old teddy...

Essen, 1946. Clara Falkenberg, once an iconic heiress, is on the run. With the city in ruins and her dear friend Elisa missing,...

Haunting, uplifting, beautiful: the final work from Helen Dunmore

Helen Dunmore passed away in June 2017, leaving behind this...

In these vigorous stories, Lauren Groff brings her electric storytelling to a world in which storms, snakes and sinkholes lurk at...

The Peterloo Massacre is a revealing and compelling account of one of the darkest days in Britain's social history.

On 16...

It is 2017 – the time of Trump, Brexit and fake news. And time for the return of Steven Stelfox, former A&R man who made his...

On 8 December 1854, Emmanuel Barthelemy visited 73 Warren Street in the heart of radical London for the very last time. Within...

To the outside world, they were the icons of high society - the most glamorous and influential women of their age. To Truman...

· The richest eight people control more wealth than the poorest half of the world combined.
· Today, 60 per cent of the world's...

The extraordinary story of the species that became our allies.

Dogs became our companions
Wheat fed a booming...

‘When I finished Sara Baume’s new novel I immediately felt sad that I could not send it in the post to the late John Berger. He,...

You find me on a Tuesday, on my Tuesday trip to town. A note sellotaped to the inside of the jumble-shop window: COMPASSIONATE &...

In the last few years the world has changed in unexpected ways. The power of radical ideas and groups is growing. What was once...

We all have ten types of human in our head.

They're the people we become when we face life's most difficult decisions. We want...

'John Bargh's Before You Know It moves our understanding of the mysteries of human behaviour one giant step forward. A brilliant...

English feminist Mary Wollstonecraft and author Mary Shelley were mother and daughter, yet these two extraordinary women never...

Susan Frobisher and Julie Wickham are turning sixty. Susan has just discovered that her recently deceased husband was not only a...

'A meticulous and gripping reimagination of the Brighton bomb' Observer, Best Novels of 2015

In September 1984, a man calling...

In brilliant poetic prose Bright Air Black brings us aboard the ship Argo for its epic return journey across the Black Sea from...

The folk-memory of Britain in the years before the Great War is of a powerful, contented, orderly and thriving country. She...