Who can guess what a woman will do when the unthinkable becomes her reality From the bestselling author of The Weight of Water,...

The murder of a media moghul in his country mansion appears to be the result of him disturbing a gang of would-be thieves. The...

For the four fraught, mysterious days of her doomed maiden voyage in 1912, the Titanic sails towards New York, glittering with...

Sir Alfred Munnings, retiring President of the Royal Academy, chooses the 1949 Annual Banquet to launch a savage attack on Modern...

As the wife of a Resistance member in German-occupied Belgium, Claire Daussois has grown used to hiding strange men in her attic....

From his chlidhood in Fez, having fled the Christian Inquisition, through his many journeys to the East as an itinerant merhcant,...

A wonderful bittersweet story about a misguided do-gooder

Eliza Peabody is one of those dangerously blameless women who...

It's the start of another school year at St Ambrose. But while the children are in the classroom colouring in, their mothers are...

Atlanta, 1948. In this city, all crime is black and white.

On one side of the tracks are the rich, white neighbourhoods; on...

When Hannah is invited into the First-Class carriage of the London to Penzance train by Jinni, she walks into a spider's web. Now...

A funny, dark and moving novel about London, the end of the 1970s, and the end of an era, from the masterful author of Curtain...

The night before Janie's sister, Hannah, is born, her grandmother tells her a story: Since the Japanese occupation of Korea,...

Hot breath on Grace's face. Claire is screaming, and Grace is on her feet. As she lifts her daughter, a wall of fire fills the...

Quentin and Lottie Bredin, like many modern couples, can't afford to divorce. Having lost their jobs in the recession, they can't...

In the latest entertaining and hilarious Professor Dr Dr Moritz-Maria Von Igelfeld novel, our hopelessly out-of-touch hero is...

When writer Paul Stewart heads to the idyllic Italian town of Montalcino to finish his already late book, it seems like the...

Marianne Messmann longs to escape her loveless marriage. On a trip to Paris, she throws herself into the Seine, but is rescued by...

It is summer in Edinburgh and Isabel Dalhousie is once again caught between 'gossip' and significant rumour. It is none of her...

Isabel Dalhousie thinks often of friends, sometimes of lovers, and on occasion of chocolate. As an Edinburgh philosopher she is...

The charming and entertaining new 44 Scotland Street novel from bestselling author Alexander McCall Smith.

Scotland Street...

Recently distracted by the arrival of her and Jamie's second son, Magnus, Isabel Dalhousie - philanthropic editor of the Review...

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

Andy, Dag and Claire have been handed a society beyond their means. Twentysomethings, brought up with divorce, Watergate and...

The seventy-fifth anniversary edition, with a new introduction by Anthony Quinn.

London, 1939, and in the grimy publands of...

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

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

Under the tablecloth, Frances's hand reached for mine and clasped it. I knew what it meant, that clasp and the mischievous...

Impromptu in Moribundia is a satirical fable about one (nameless) man's trespass (through a fantastical machine called the...

Measuring out the wartime days in a small town on the Thames, Miss Roach is not unattractive but no longer quite young. The...

In Craven House, among the shifting, uncertain world of the English boarding house, with its sad population of the shabby genteel...