'No-one here goes to the main land, and no-one wants to. Our boats aren't strong enough, we dun know the way, them can't...

From the author of Carter Beats the Devil comes a panoramic tale of power and stardom, ambition and dreams that reaches from...

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

Alice Samuel...

A dazzling, shocking novel that speaks to our times, drawing on the 16th-century case of the witches of Warboys.

Alice Samuel...

Iris Vegan, a graduate student living alone and impoverished in New York, encounters four strong characters who fascinate and in...

The dazzling new novel from the author of Cloud Atlas, at once the kaleidoscopic story of an unusual woman's life, a metaphysical...

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

One September afternoon in 1999, teenagers Matthew, Zoe, and Duncan Lang are walking home from school when they discover a boy...

If a man beats you, you never let your anger show, never at the time. You wait, until he least expects it, until nobody remembers...

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

She is sailing. She is alone. Ahead of her is the world's curve and beyond that, everything else. The known, the imagined, the...

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

At thirty a woman has a directness in her eye. Juliet Montague did anyhow. She knew exactly what she wanted. She wanted to buy a...

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

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

She...

By the author of The Night Guest, a collection of fourteen scintillating short stories: surprising, wise, thought-provoking and...

Drawing on the infamous Lord Lucan affair, this compelling novel explores the roots of a shocking murder from a fresh perspective...

In a field outside Bromsgrove, two elderly brothers live in adjoining railway carriages. No one visits and they never speak to...

One night in St Petersburg, two men meet, both adrift in the brash new Russia: Shutov, a writer visiting after years of exile in...

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

As the sun begins to set over Louisiana one October day in 1943, a young black man faces the final hours of his life: at...

In an isolated house on the New South Wales coast, Ruth, a widow whose sons have flown the nest, lives alone. Until one day a...

In a world where people slaughter the innocent without mercy or retribution, how can we have faith in humanity, or the...

We don t want to tell you what happens in this book. It is a truly special story and we don t want to spoil it.

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In 1789 in Sydney Cove, the remotest penal colony of the British Empire, a group of convicts and one of their captors unite to...

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

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

An ex-soldier and recovering alcoholic living quietly in Somerset, Stephen Rose has just begun to form a bond with the daughter...

In the aftermath of the Great Depression, Elle Ranier marries Simon to escape a life of destitution. She leaves New York City for...

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

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When you haven't had sex in a long time, it feels like the worst thing that could...