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...

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

Rather than compile a bucket...

Kennedy Marr is a novelist from the old school. Irish, acerbic, and a borderline alcoholic and sex-addict, his mantra is drink...

You thought you could leave the past behind.

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

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

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

As recently as thirty-five years ago, anxiety did not exist as a diagnostic category. Today, it is the most common form of...

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...

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

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

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

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

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...

The brilliantly compelling new biography of the treacherous and tyrannical King John, published to coincide with the 800th...

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...

Still Life with Bread Crumbs begins with an imagined gunshot and ends with a new tin roof. Between the two is a wry and knowing...

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

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

May 1944: High above the mountains of occupied Slovenia an aeroplane drops three British parachutists – brash MP Major Jack...

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...

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

Alexandra Heminsley had high hopes: the arse of an athlete, the waist of a supermodel, the speed of a gazelle. Defeated by gyms...

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

To Arjan Banga, who has returned to the Black Country after the unexpected death of his father, his family's corner shop...

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...

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

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

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

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

In Dubai, a luxury apartment block is built in the shape of a giant iPod. In China, President Xi Jinping denounces the trend of...

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