WHAT IF you still had so many more strange questions about the universe?

And WHAT IF Randall Munroe, former NASA roboticist...

When a body is hauled from the River Tyne, Sarah Tucker heads to Newcastle for a closer look. She identifies the dead woman, but...

A Time of Gifts and Between the Woods and the Water were the first two volumes in a projected trilogy that would describe the...

The story of the Paris Peace Conference of 1919, when for six extraordinary months the city was at the centre of world government...

As Hitler prepared to invade Poland during the sweltering summer of 1939, men and women from across London's museums, galleries...

1884. A tenement room-and-kitchen flat in Rutherglen, near Glasgow. A woman with stark injuries to her face and her mind, and a...

London, 1931. Nick Bassington-Hope, veteran of the Great War and controversial artist, is suddenly found dead. His death from a...

Joan was only a child the last time she visited Memphis. She doesn't remember the bustle of Beale Street or the smell of...

In the 1790s an extraordinary group of friends changed the world. Disappointed by the French Revolution's rapid collapse into...

100 of the most heroic, inspirational (and sometimes hilarious) animals from history
There is no such thing as an ordinary...

It's the summer of 1994, and all Maeve Murray wants is some money and good exam results so she can escape her shitty wee town in...

Sidney Trefusis is a proselytizing socialist. Armed with irony and paradox, he is determined to overthrow a society riddled with...

Can a prison free those who enter?

Nisida, moored like a boat in the Mediterranean, is a small island nestled between Capri...

In 1916, Sven Ormson leaves Stockholm to seek adventure in Svalbard, an Arctic archipelago where darkness reigns four months of...

April 1944. Nineteen-year-old Rudolf Vrba and fellow inmate Fred Wetzler became two of the very first Jews to successfully escape...

Sometimes I get fanciful and think the buildings speak. That all their history is locked into the walls and if you listened...

Ronald Blythe lived at the end of an overgrown farm track deep in the rolling countryside of the Stour Valley, on the border...

A revelatory collection of letters from the nation's favourite storyteller.

'Dear Mama,
I am having a lovely time here. We...

Meet Darren. An unambitious twenty-two-year-old living with his mother and working at Starbucks. All that changes when a chance...

What do the $350 million Ford Motor Company disaster known as the Edsel, the fast and incredible rise of Xerox, and the...

Lillian, a single, well-travelled woman of a certain age, wakes up next to her married lover and looks back at her life. It's not...

Magnus McFall was a comic on the brink of his big break when the world came to an end. Now, he is a man on the run and there is...

A wide-eyed boy growing up in suburban Calcutta in the 1960s experiences the world through the eyes of others an intoxicating...

In this extraordinary novel, Amitav Ghosh navigates through time and genres to present a unique tale. Beginning at an unspecified...

A kiss, a touch. A smile and a beating heart. Love and sex and dreams, art and drugs and the madness of youth. Betrayal and...

Welcome to LA. City of contradictions.

It is home to movie stars and down-and-outs. Palm-lined beaches and gridlock. Shopping...

At eighteen, Somlata married into the Mitras: a once noble Bengali household whose descendants have taken to pawning off the...

Growing up, it was always the three of them: Miller and Olly and Ash. They stuck together, like they were keeping a secret. They...

Meet Darren. An unambitious twenty-two-year-old living with his mother and working at Starbucks. All that changes when a chance...

In crisp, unembellished prose, Choi Eunyoung paints intimate portraits of the lives of young women in South Korea, balancing the...