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

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...

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

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...

'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...

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

Twenty-one years later, she remains...

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...

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

In 1944, a German Jewish refugee is sent to Wales to interview Rudolf Hess; in Snowdonia, a seventeen-year-old girl, the daughter...

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

In the shadow of Auschwitz, a flamboyant German industrialist grew into a living legend to the Jews of Cracow. He was a...

The scandal that rocked society and defied convention.

In the early 1900s polite Chicago society was rocked by terrible...

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

At the age of twelve, under the Wind Moon, Will is given a horse, a key, and a map, and sent alone into the Indian Nation to run...

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

At the dawn of the Enlightenment, James Dyer is born unable to feel pain. A source of wonder and scientific curiosity as a child,...

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

Cowan's beautifully drawn, multi award-winning first novel of love in the hostile climate of modern British society

When his...

With her marriage prospects ruined in the wake of her father's financial decline, teenage Varina Howell decides her best option...

In the summer of 1997, four people reach a turning point: Alice Valentine, who lies gravely ill in her West Country home; her two...

Mercury is at once a tense psychological drama and a taut emotional thriller exploring love, obsession, and the deceits that pull...

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

Gunnar Kampen grows up in Reykjavik during the Second World War in a household fiercely opposed to Hitler and Nazism. A caring...

On a stark Icelandic mountainside, the imposing Reverend Baldur Skuggason hunts an elusive blue vixen for her near-mythical pelt....

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...

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...

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

Alice Samuel...

Jeanie Masterson has a gift: she can hear the recently dead and give voice to their final wishes and revelations. Inherited from...