Spring, 1971, East Pakistan. Rehana Haque is throwing a party for her beloved children, Sohail and Maya. Her young family is...

Word has come. King Lear is dead. His three daughters too, broken in battle. But someone has survived: Lear’s queen.
Though her...

Shortlisted for the British Psychological Society Book Award for Popular Science

Much of value has been written about sleep,...

When a Jewish classmate is attacked by bullies, fifteen-year-old Nico just watches – earning him a week’s suspension and a typed,...

A Raven and Fisher Mystery: Book 3

Edinburgh, 1850. This city will bleed you dry.
Sarah Fisher is keeping a safe distance...

What did your face look like before your parents were born? Who are you? What is your true self? These are the questions in Ruth...

Glasgow is a city in mourning. An arson attack has left five dead. Tempers are frayed and sentiments running high.
When three...

Kate Grenville’s The Secret River was one of the most loved novels of 2006. Shortlisted for the Booker Prize and awarded the...

The debut work, a short story collection from the bestselling, critically acclaimed author of Under the Skin, The Crimson Petal...

‘A cat is only ITSELF, representative of the strong forces of life that won’t let go’
For Charles Bukowski there was something...

It's late one night at the Spanish port of Algeciras and two fading Irish gangsters are waiting on the boat from Tangier. A lover...

How can you say goodbye to the love of your life? In Undying Michel Faber honours the memory of his wife, who died after a...

There’s Grandaddy Jake Santee, 99 years old, an unreformed gambler, cranky reprobate and fierce opponent of the work ethic....

Chris Guthrie, torn between her love of the land and her desire to escape the narrow horizons of a peasant culture, is the thread...

One relentlessly hot summer, six children explore the scorched wheat fields that enclose their tiny Italian village. When the...

1919, Siberia.
Deep in the unforgiving landscape a town lies under military rule, awaiting the remorseless assault of Bolsheviks...

When Apollo Kagwa was just a child, his father disappeared, leaving him with recurring nightmares and a box labelled...

The Bachelors displays the best of Sparkian satire, placing her at the heart of a great literary tradition alongside Waugh and...

Idealistic young officer Giovanni Drogo is full of determination to serve his country well. But when he arrives at a bleak border...

At seven years old, Nainoa falls into the sea and a shark takes him in its jaws – only to return him, unharmed, to his parents....

A handful of disparate lives converge at a remote seaside inn: a lovelorn professor, a renowned painter, an inscrutable...

Eck Adamson, an alcoholic vagrant, summons Jack Laidlaw to his deathbed. Probably the only policeman in Glasgow who would bother...

When Daniel's mother dies, he is brought under the protection of the AMO: the Alliance of Magicians and Outlaws. It is an...

In a coastal village in medieval Japan, a young boy called Isaku battles to keep his family alive against the odds. With his...

After a car accident Jarred discovers he’ll never walk again. Confined to a ‘giant roller-skate’, he finds himself with neither...

She never presumed she herself would live out her natural life, so she wouldn’t mind leaving this world through an untimely...

1628. Embarking on a journey in search of her father, a young girl called Mayken boards the Batavia, the most impressive sea...

Teoh Yun Ling was seventeen years old when she first heard about Aritomo and the garden. But a war would come to Malaya, and a...

The Bible is the most widely distributed book in the world. Translated into over two thousand languages, it is estimated that...

At the age of thirty, Amy Liptrot finds herself washed up back home on Orkney. Standing unstable on the island, she tries to come...