‘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 &...

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...

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.

Think again.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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

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

In a small town in the middle of England, the aftermath of the Second World War brings change. For ambitious industrialist...

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

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

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...

A panoramic new history of modern Britain, as told through the story of one extraordinary family, and one groundbreaking...

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

Alexandra Heminsley thought she could swim. She really did.
It may have been because she could run. It may have been because she...

Jones... , Thompson...

Foreword by Chrissie Hynde

Without the Sex Pistols there would be no punk rock, and without Steve Jones there would be no Sex...

When Lucie Tang Churchill meets George Zao at a lavish wedding in Capri, she can't stand him. She can't stand that he gallantly...

From Peter the Great to Putin, this is the unforgettable story of St Petersburg - one of the most magical, menacing and...