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

During the chaotic months leading up to the Iranian Revolution, four young people navigate the increasingly dangerous situation...

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

Yet sometimes being alone feels like the...

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

Tom Shaw...

Accused of child abuse, Father Roger Tree confesses at once; it masks a darker secret. Meanwhile his sister Romola faces a future...

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

Twenty-one years later, she remains...

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

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

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

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

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

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

A hostage exchange outside a...

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

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

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

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

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

On the island of St Helena in the south Atlantic ocean, Napoleon spends his last years in exile. It is a hotbed of gossip and...

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

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...

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

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

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...

Places remember us...

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

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

The artist Harriet Burden, furious at the lack of attention paid her by the New York art world, conducts an experiment: she hides...

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

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...

A soldier's broken promise ... a mother's loss ... an agonizing truth. The Yellow Birds gives a powerful, emotional insight into...

There is a Happy Land tells of the events of a few weeks in the life of a small boy on a north county council estate and the...

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