A razor-sharp portrait of a morally bankrupt and gleefully wicked modern man, Worst. Person. Ever. is Douglas Coupland's...

No building has been more intimately involved in the story of Britain than the Tower of London - a mighty, brooding stronghold in...

An old man lies dying. Confined to bed in his living room, he sees the walls around him begin to collapse, the windows come loose...

Sergeant Lester Ferris is a good man in need of a rest. He’s spent a lot of his life being shot at. He has no family, he’s nearly...

A brilliant historical crime novel, set in Los Angeles and Mexico during the pulse-pounding aftermath of the attack on Pearl...

Boston, 1980

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

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...

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

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

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

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

God takes a look at the Earth around the time of the Renaissance and everything looks pretty good – so he takes a holiday. In...

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

On 16...

Fifteen-year old Anais Hendricks is smart, funny and fierce, but she is also a child who has been let down, or worse, by just...

This summer, Clover Quinn wants to find the missing pieces of her story.

Clover Quinn was a surprise. She used to imagine she...

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

Willie Upton returns to her ancestral home of Templeton, New York after a disastrous affair with her married archaeology...

Set during and just after the First World War, The Lie is an enthralling, heart-wrenching novel of love, memory and devastating...

In the past, Hugh Thomson has written acclaimed books about Peru, Mexico and the Indian Himalaya. Now he returns to the most...

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

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

We spend more time than ever online, and the digital revolution is rewiring our sense of what it means to be human. Smartphones...

It is 1946, and seventeen-year-old Laura Telling is stagnating in her dilapidated Sussex family home, while her eccentric parents...

Frank Brill, a retired small-town newspaper editor, has just been given a terminal diagnosis.

Rather than compile a bucket...

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

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...

Guns. Sex. Drugs. Murder.
The Dark Net is just a click away.

Beyond the familiar online world that most of us inhabit lies a...

A wonderfully readable investigation of the origins of the modern garden in 18th-century England. Popular history at its...

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

Gary is a sweet and decent man. Only two things would improve his life - having children with his gorgeous wife Pauline, and a...