Inspired by a real house, an amazing modernist symbol, Simon Mawer has written his best novel yet, a story guaranteed to dazzle...

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

A carefully researched and hugely readable account of the build-up to war, the momentum inexorably growing as he assembles each...

Iain Banks at his very best - his funniest, grittiest and most exciting novel yet.

Stewart Gilmour is back in Stonemouth....

A highly original 'detective' novel with unique setting and characters, this is the first of four 'Botswana' titles are both...

The last person Alice Shipley expected to see since arriving in Tangier with her new husband was Lucy Mason. After the horrific...

The one with the election…

When Ramotswe enters politics to oppose the construction of the dubious-sounding 'Big Fun Hotel',...

The one with the other Mma Ramotswe . . .

The dismissal of an employee at a thriving local business leads to an investigation...

As Botswana awaits the familiar blessing of the rains and the resumption of the eternal cycle, seismic upheaval is taking place...

Despite inhabiting a great city renowned for its impeccable restraint, the extended family of 44 Scotland Street is trembling on...

As the countdown to Mma Makutsi's wedding begins, all is not as it should be at the No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency. While...

As well as its advantages, there are drawbacks to the enlightened village that is twenty-first-century Edinburgh, where every...

The one with the poison pen letter…

For the first time in her career as Botswana's no. 1 lady detective, Mma Ramotswe suffers...

Even down to its well-set Georgian townhouses, Edinburgh is a hymn to measure and harmony. But on Scotland Street, domestic...

Marian Sutro is an outsider: the daughter of a diplomat, brought up on the shores of Lake Geneva and in England, half French,...

The wonderful new Isabel Dalhousie.
As the editor of an applied ethics journal, Isabel Dalhousie is usually tucked away in her...

Is Alice here? Did she make it? Is she safe?
In the chaos, in the night, it was impossible to say which of the four had asked...

Iain Banks' daring new novel opens in a loft apartment in the East End, in a former factory due to be knocked down in a few days....

Hisako Onoda, world famous cellist, refuses to fly. And so she travels to Europe as a passenger on a tanker bound through the...

In the genteel environs of Corduroy Mansions, Pimlico, strange doings are afoot, mostly in the name of love. Lonely William...

March is set towards the end of the American Civil War and follows General Sherman's epic march with sixty thousand Union troops...

A little knowledge can be a very dangerous thing. . . Innocent in the ways of the world, an ingenue when it comes to pop and...

On a Tuesday in May, in her thirty-fifth year, Rachel shot her husband dead. He stumbled backward with an odd look of...

Spring is coming slowly to Sweden - though not quite as slowly as Detective Ulf Varg's promised promotion at the Department of...

For seven-year-old Bertie Pollock, life in Edinburgh's most celebrated fictional street has just got immeasurably better. The...

When Isabel Dalhousie and her husband Jamie book a table at an expensive Edinburgh restaurant, she finds herself battling with...

Everyone in Shaker Heights was talking about it that summer: how Isabelle, the last of the Richardson children, had finally gone...

Welcome to Corduroy Mansions in Pimlico: a temple of Arts and Crafts architecture, with comforting, weathered brickwork and...

At the age of twenty-nine, Sydney has already been once divorced and once widowed. Trying to find her footing again, she has...

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