When Lucy wins a place at university, she thinks London will unlock her future. It is a city alive with pop up bars, cool girls...

Places remember us...

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

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...

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

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

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

Yet sometimes being alone feels like the...

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...

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

Tom Shaw...

In this gripping novel, Melvyn Bragg brings an extraordinary episode in English history to fresh, urgent life.

At the end of...

Wildly funny and unceasingly surprising, Quicksand is both a satirical masterpiece and an unforgettable story of fate, family and...

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

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...

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

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...

'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...

After Mia Fredricksen's husband of thirty years asks for a pause - so he can indulge his infatuation with a young French...

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

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.

Nevertheless,...

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...

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

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...