Stephen Hawking was no ordinary scientist. He managed to do more than perhaps any other physicist to broaden our basic...

Freda and Brenda are friends spending their days in an Italian-run wine-bottling factory in North London. When a works outing...

The novel that became a huge bestseller in Iran, before it was banned by the government.
A teenager in pre-revolutionary Tehran,...

Provocative, dazzling and compassionate, Anita Shreve's new novel explores important issues to do with privacy and teen...

'Mrs. Fennessy, please go home.'
'And do what?'
'Whatever you do when you're home.'
'And then what?'
'Get up the next day and...

A young girl is found dead in Seryong Lake, a reservoir in a remote South Korean village. The police immediately begin their...

When a man is discovered dead by poisoning in his empty home his beautiful wife, Ayane, immediately falls under suspicion. All...

The Roman Republic was the most remarkable state in history. What began as a small community of peasants camped among marshes and...

Hugh Bonneville is one of Britain's most accomplished actors, familiar to audiences worldwide for his roles in Notting Hill, the...

In 480 BC, Xerxes, the King of Persia, led an invasion of mainland Greece. Its success should have been a formality. For seventy...

Twelve-year-old Bird Gardner lives a quiet existence with his loving father, a former linguist who now shelves books in a...

Filth, in his heydey, was an international lawyer with a practice in the Far East. Now, only the oldest QCs can remember that his...

Filth, in his heydey, was an international lawyer with a practice in the Far East. Now, only the oldest QCs can remember that his...

International bestseller Keigo Higashino returns with his latest mindbender - Newcomer - as newly transferred Tokyo Police...

Of all the civilisations existing in the year 1000, that of Western Europe seemed the unlikeliest candidate for future greatness....

Acclaimed bestselling novelist Kunihiko Hidaka is found brutally murdered in his home on the night before he's planning to leave...

In the 6th century AD, the Near East was divided between two great empires: the Persian and the Roman. A hundred years on, and...

A new edition of Primo Levi’s classic memoir of the Holocaust, with an introduction by David Baddiel, author of Jews Don’t Count.

A new edition of Primo Levi’s classic memoir of the Holocaust, with an introduction by David Baddiel, author of Jews Don’t Count.

A sweet and touching novel which can be read both as a coming of age story, set against a fascinating backdrop, and at a deeper...

A discarded painting in a junk pile, a skeleton in an attic, and the greatest racehorse in American history

Kentucky, 1850. An...

In Happy-Go-Lucky, David Sedaris once again captures what is most unexpected, hilarious, and poignant about recent upheavals,...

Guy de la Bedoyere's gripping narrative history gives a sense of what it was like to be a soldier in the army that brought the...

The twenty-fourth book in the multi-million copy bestselling and perennially adored No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series.

If...

Rome was first ruled by kings, then became a republic. But in the end, after conquering the world, the Republic collapsed. Rome...

Dominion tells the epic story of how those in the West came to be what they are, and why they think the way they do. Ranging from...

Life is dangerous when you have everything to lose.

Famous, beautiful and talented, Heike Gunn has the world at her feet....

Now that she is finally and happily married to her long-term suitor Mr J.L.B. Matekoni, Mma Ramotswe of the No. 1 Ladies...

Did she do it? Did he deserve it?

Diana Jager is clever, strong and successful, a skilled surgeon and fierce campaigner via...

It was a junket, a freebie. A 'team-building' weekend in the highlands for lawyers, advertising execs, businessmen, even the head...