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

Slough House is a dumping ground for members of the intelligence service who've screwed up: left a service file on a train, say,...

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

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...

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...

It is a tale of ambitious adventures and fierce freebooters, of fortunes made and fortunes lost. The Normans made their influence...

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...

A major biography of the greatest men's tennis player of the modern era.

Widely regarded as one of the greatest ever...

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

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

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...

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...

Thousands of islands rise from the rivers' rich silts,
crowned with forests of mangrove, rising on stilts.
This is the...

Fleeing her husband's explosive temper, Miriam has brought her two daughters, Joan and Mya, back to Memphis, to the home her...

An all-girls boarding school in a hilly corner of Connecticut, Atwater is a haven for progressive thinking and feminist...

When a young British man asks his German grandfather what it was like to fight on the wrong side of the war, the question is...

The five of them - Stella, Priss, Kay, Helena and Polly - met at university, their lives full of lazy afternoons and late nights....

Jon Swift is in trouble.

His journalism career is in freefall.

He's too old to be part of the new world order and he's...

Reunions. Recriminations. Reckonings.

Ireland. Great nationalists, bad mothers and a whole lot of secrets. Ryan Cusack is...