A wise and inspiring manifesto about why understanding physics can make you happier, by one of the leading science writers of our...

From the award-winning author of The Language of Birds and The Crime Writer, a chilling tale of a witch-hunt

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The extraordinary tale of Oskar Schindler, the Aryan who saved hundreds of Jews in Nazi-occupied Poland, is now legendary, but as...

The main lesson Luce had learned was that you couldn't count on anybody.

In the lonesome beauty of the forest, across the far...

What do we do with the art of monstrous men? Can we love the work of Roman Polanski and Michael Jackson, Hemingway and Picasso?...

Do two trees ever appear identical? No, but why? Every small difference is a clue.

Each tree we meet is filled with signs that...

Four months into the siege of Leningrad, the city is starving. Seventeen-year-old Lev fears for his life when he is arrested for...

Ben Short has a successful career in advertising, a flat in a trendy part of London, a flashy motorbike. But after years of...

The ultimate guide to what the land, sun, moon, stars, trees, plants, animals, sky and clouds can reveal - when you know what to...

In September 1883, a small town in the South Australian outback huddles under strange, vivid sunsets. Six-year-old Denny Wallace...

A profound and tender tale of guilt, the search for atonement and the hard, uncertain work of loving from the critically...

I felt that Mary was there, pulling at my sleeve, willing me to appreciate the artistry, wanting me to understand the dazzle of...

In this elegiac and heartfelt memoir, Melvyn Bragg recreates his youth in the Cumbrian market town of Wigton: a working-class boy...

Ove is almost certainly the grumpiest man you will ever meet. He thinks himself surrounded by idiots - joggers, neighbours who...

A magnificent story of courage and survival in the face of great adversity

In a snowbound railway station deep in the Soviet...

Cecilia Banks has a great deal on her plate. But when her son Ian turns up on her doorstep with the unexpected consequence of a...

French teenager Margot is the illegitimate daughter of a prominent stage actress and an influential politician. The comings and...

A firecracker of a novel by the Booker-shortlisted author of A Fraction of the Whole – a scathingly funny and affecting tale of...

A firecracker of a novel by the Booker-shortlisted author of A Fraction of the Whole – a scathingly funny and affecting tale of...

A breathtaking collection of stories about our most intimate relationships, and the secrets, misunderstandings and silences that...

A breathtaking collection of stories about our most intimate relationships, and the secrets, misunderstandings and silences that...

Meet Adunni, a teenage girl born into a rural Nigerian village.

Aged fourteen, she is a commodity, a wife, a servant.

She...

2009. Berlin.

Two art students arrive from New York, both desperate for the city to solve their problems.

Zoe is grieving...

Pakistan, 1968. As riots erupt in the streets of Lahore, Inspector Faraz Ali returns to his birthplace, the red-light district in...

A novel of breath-taking reach and inspired imagination, drawing on the discovery of Australia’s oldest known human...

By the Booker-winning author of Schindler’s Ark, a vibrant novel about Charles Dickens’ son and his little-known adventures in...

A master storyteller, Sjon weaves together Greek and Nordic myths with the legacies of the Second World War in this mesmerising...

Fresh from Minnesota and hungry for all New York has to offer, twenty-three-year-old S.H. embarks on a year that proves both...

A girl grows up in the north-east of England amid scarcity, precarity and a toxic culture of bodily shame,certain that she must...