Tracing the dark possibilities of best intentions gone awry, A Kind of Intimacy is a darkly comic novel about a dysfunctional...

When does sorrow turn to shame? When does love become labour? When does chance become choice? And when does fact become...

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

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

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

There is something about Ove. At first sight, he is almost certainly the grumpiest man you will ever meet. He thinks himself...

The international phenomenon: quirky and bittersweet, heartbreaking yet outrageously funny. Perfect for fans of Rachel Joyce's...

Alma Braithwaite was a teenager in Exeter when her boarding school was bombed in 1942.

Twenty-one years later, she remains...

David is only fourteen when he first tries crack cocaine. He is instantly hooked, and spends the next decade fighting his way out...

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

Places remember us...

A missionary begs to be sent home.
A jazz pianist is hired to perform for ghosts.
An army colonel...

A septuagenarian contract killer, a chronic hypochondriac, two zombie-creating comedians, a good Samaritan and a man called...

It's a dank January in the Worcestershire village of Black Swan Green and thirteen-year-old Jason Taylor - covert stammerer and...

Youth is wasted on the young, isn't it?

In this version of London, there is a small, private clinic. Behind its layers of...

Combining love, lust, murder and lots of beetles in a thrilling novel, Ned Beauman has created a page-turning debut full of wild...

The number 1 European bestseller by the author of New York Times bestseller and international phenomenon A Man Called Ove,...

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

A dazzling, gripping, panoramic novel of magic and science, love and death set in 1920s America.

Charles Carter, dubbed Carter...

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

How good are people? Let me tell you, Dee: people are as good as the pair of eyes they believe is on them...

When Claudia...

A soldier wounded in the Civil War, Inman turns his back on the carnage of the battlefield and begins the treacherous journey...

Father Frank Docherty has had his run-ins with the church authorities: in the early 1970s, he was expelled from the Sydney...

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

When war is declared, Mary North leaves finishing school unfinished, goes straight to the War Office, and signs up.

Tom Shaw...

The year is 1635. Iceland is a world darkened by superstition, poverty and cruelty. Men of science marvel over a unicorn s horn,...

One ordinary morning, Laurie's husband disappears, leaving behind his phone and wallet. For weeks she tells no one, carrying on...

A magnificent achievement and an engrossing experience, David Mitchell's first novel announced the arrival of one of the most...

With GLOW, Ned Beauman has reinvented the international conspiracy thriller for a new generation.

A hostage exchange outside a...

When the meaning of 'home' is complicated, we strive for a sense of connection.

Yet sometimes being alone feels like the...

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...