Knotshead is a school catering for the children of the rich, famous, liberal - and deluded. With its progressive curriculum,...

Amsterdam in the 1690s - a boom town with Europe's biggest stock exchange and traders who will stop at nothing to get even...

On the Sussex Downs in 1066, the psychotic William and his gang of European mercenaries began the process which fragmented a...

In perfect Brookmyre tradition this new thriller featuring Jack Parlabane contains a lot of body fluids, the Establishment at its...

New Yorker Danny is running from something. A loner who cannot bear to be apart from his Wi-Fi connection, he is in need of...

Throughout her career, prize-winning novelist Jane Gardam has been writing glorious short stories, each one hallmarked with all...

She was found hanging in a dingy London bedsit with a blood orange in her mouth. Diane Heybridge, a young woman without a past or...

Sam Morpeth is growing up way too fast, left to fend for a younger sister when their mother goes to prison and watching her...

From the hilltop he could see London, stretched towards the hills of Kent and Surrey. The sky was beginning to pale at the edges....

On the face of it, Ben Bradford is your standard Wall Street hot shot - Junior partner in a legal firm, 6 figure income, wife and...

The barren, beautiful Cumbrian fells provide the bewitching setting for the adventures of Bill and Harry, two children who find...

During one glorious summer between the wars, the realities of life and the sexual ritual dance of the adult world creep into the...

Anointed as the chosen one when just a young shepherd boy, David will rise to be king, grasping the throne and establishing his...

Beryl Bainbridge gets better and better... she has succeeded with a daring leap of emphatic imagination in penetrating the minds...

The third novel in Alexander McCall Smith's irresistibly charming series about the residents of 44 Scotland Street

Love Over...

While F. Scott Fitzgerald was writing the novels we remember him for today, he was also publishing short stories in popular...

'I ought to tell you at the beginning that I am not quite normal having had a violent experience at the age of nine'
Jessica...

This delightful novel describes the post-war summer of 1946 - and follows the growing-up of three young women in the months...

This wonderful novel showing Beryl Bainbridge at her darkly comic best - out for the first time as an Abacus paperback.

Freda...

The latest in the hugely popular 44 Scotland Street series from the worldwide bestselling author, Alexander McCall Smith

Life...

It was here at the Manor House that Norman Blood, captain of England, spent his childhood playing cricket with the vicar's...

Real Life sucks. He's thirty, his dreams of becoming a rock star are long gone, and he's just discovered that responsibility has...

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

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...

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...

West Kensington - grey area of rot, and caretaking, and cat-slinking basements. West Kensington - drab asylum for the driven and...

In Killing Monica Bushnell spoofs and skewers her way through pop culture, celebrity worship, fame and even the meaning of life...

On Such A Full Sea takes Chang-rae Lee's elegance of prose, his masterly storytelling, and his long-standing interests in...

From the award-winning author of Curtain Call, Freya and Our Friends in Berlin comes a sweeping story of art and love through the...