The first group biography of one of the greatest British bands of all time - The Smiths.

To this day, they were, their fans...

‘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,...

What is the universe really made of? How do we know? Follow the map of the invisible to find out...

Over the last sixty years,...

Meet the Bradleys.

In lots of ways, they're a normal family:
Zippy is sixteen and in love for the first time; Al is thirteen...

Doctors are the people we turn to in our darkest moments. We trust them with our lives. But what does that stress do to a...

From the acclaimed author of The Gone-Away World - an adventure story, a war story, and a love story, all wound into one...

In the fields of western New York State in the 1970s, on the grounds of a decaying mansion called Arcadia House, a few dozen...

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

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

Beginning with their introduction in the eleventh century, and ending with their widespread abandonment in the seventeenth, Marc...

'A past more dramatic than Chekhov, more tragic than Tolstoy and more romantic than Pasternak'
Between the first revolution in...

On two days in 1761 and 1769 hundreds of astronomers pointed their telescopes towards the skies to observe a rare astronomical...

You thought you could leave the past behind.

Think again.

Donnie Miller counts himself lucky. Living in a beautiful,...

After moving from London to a new home in Yorkshire, and about to become a father for the first time, Rob Cowen finds himself in...

Drawn from a series of conversations between David Bowie and Dylan Jones across three decades, together with over 180 interviews...

Lauren Groff's critically acclaimed The Monsters of Templeton was shortlisted for the Orange Broadband Award for New Writers...

Leonard and Rosemary Cannon summon their middle-aged offspring, along with partners and children, to the family home in the Welsh...

The Cold War is at its height, and a spy may be a friend or neighbour, colleague or lover.

At the end of a suburban garden, in...

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

A dark and powerful debut novel set in the hardscrabble American heartlands.

'If I knew for a certain’ty that a man was coming...

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

In the near future bees are extinct - until five unconnected individuals, in different parts of the world, are stung. Immediately...

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

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

Former academic Arthur Opp weighs 550 pounds and hasn't left his rambling Brooklyn home in a decade. Twenty miles away, in...

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

In September 1984, a man calling...

2019 marked the centenary of Stanley Middleton's birth. Holiday, winner of the 1974 Booker Prize, remains the most celebrated and...

VIENNA, 1911. Greta Goldbaum has always dreamed of being free to choose her own life's path, but the Goldbaum family, one of the...

A disturbing look at obsession, delusion and the way boundaries between the domestic and the wild can blur, HOW TO BE HUMAN marks...

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

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

The two time winner of the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award on George Best, considered the greatest footballer of our...