It is the hottest August in living memory.

A frightened girl bangs on a door. A man answers. From the moment he invites her...

'Isn't the life of any person made up out of the telling of two tales, after all? The whole world makes more sense if you...

'There exists in all of us a song waiting to be sung which is as heart-stopping and vertiginous as the peak of the cathedral....

A strange craft falls from the stars and crashes into the jungle near an isolated West African community. Inside, the locals...

The January Man is the story of a year of walks that was inspired by a song, Dave Goulder's 'The January Man'. Month by month,...

This is not a parenting manual. This is real life.

The Unmumsy Mum writes candidly about motherhood like it really is: the...

What do you do next, after you’ve changed the world?

It is 1928. Matilda Simpkin, rooting through a cupboard, comes across a...

There's no such thing as a happy ending , is there …?

Sunita - perfect housewife - is married to Akash, but is her marriage...

For centuries, scientists had only one way to study the brain: wait for misfortune to strike - strokes, seizures, infections,...

You’ve heard the old proverb about ambition, that it’s like setting a ladder to the sky. It can lead to a long and painful...

In this collection of twelve dark, unerring and surprising short stories, John Boyne explores the extremities of the human...

All Marnie wants is somewhere to call home. Mourning lost years spent in a marriage that has finally come to an end, she needs a...

Alice Rose is a foundling, discovered on the Yorkshire moors above Haworth as a baby. Adopted but then later rejected again by a...

The witty, weird and wonderful abound in this early romantic comedy by Sunday Times bestselling author Trisha Ashley.

Tina...

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man of over forty is in possession of a major defect . . .

Cassandra...

Sappho Jones stopped counting birthdays when she reached thirty but, even with her hazy grip on mathematics, she realises that...

Snap Decisions Can Be Dangerous...

On a stifling summer's day, eleven-year-old Jack and his two sisters sit in their...

They wanted the same things. Death - and an audience.

Eve Singer makes her living from death. As a TV crime reporter, she'll...

Traditional ploughland is disappearing. Seven cornfield flowers have become extinct in the last twenty years. Once abundant, the...

Some three thousand years ago, in a time before history, the warriors of Greece journeyed to the ends of the earth in the...

Young Mary Newton, born into a large Irish family in a small Watford semi, was always getting into trouble. When she wasn’t...

She knows all your secrets. But will she keep them?

Look around you. Who holds the most power in the room? Is it the one who...

Farouk's country has been torn apart by war.

Lampy's heart has been laid waste by Chloe.

John's past torments him as he...

Having pursued a conventional enough path through school and university, Jason Webster was all set to enter the world of academe...

The war on drugs has been lost but for want of the courage to face the fact that the whole world is rapidly becoming one vast...

The Language of the Genes and In the Blood revisits Darwin's The Origin of Species, and updates it for the twenty-first...

Merrion Palmer has been Judge Guy Stockdale's mistress for the last seven years and his wife and two grown-up sons know...

For eight-year-old Rufus life has become complicated. His parents, Josie and Tom, have divorced and are setting off on separate...

On a peat and heather island off the west coast of Scotland, Effie and her mother Nora take refuge in the large mouldering house...

A family in crisis. A catalyst that threatens to change everything...

The land running down to the River Dean has been farmed...