History is gossip,' says a protagonist in Washington, D.C., 'but the trick is determining which gossip is history.' It is a trick...

Gore Vidal's fictional recreation of the Roman Empire teetering on the crux of Christianity and ruled by an emperor who was an...

As far back as she can remember, Codi Noline had felt an outsider in her hometown of Grace, Arizona. Her dispassionate father -...

A wonderful bittersweet story about a misguided do-gooder

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

For gauche young apprentice Milos Hrma, life at the small but strategic railway station in Bohemia in 1945 is full of complex...

Old Filth and The Man in the Wooden Hat told with bristling tenderness and black humour the stories of that Titan of the Hong...

The beautiful, spoiled and bored Olivia, married to a civil servant, outrages society in the tiny, suffocating town of Satipur by...

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

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

The Binewskis arex a circus-geek family whose matriarch and patriarch have bred their own exhibit of human oddities (with the...

Complicity
n. 1. the fact of being an accomplice, esp. in a criminal act

A few spliffs, a spot of mild S&M, phone through the...

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

Stewart Gilmour is back in Stonemouth....

Feckless, unwashed, charming, penurious Sebastian Balfe Dangerfield, Trinity College Law student, Irish American with an English...

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...

S... , Ross...

Major Sinclair Yeates leaves England to work as an Irish Resident Magistrate convinced that two and two make four. But as he...

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

'Beyond the fact that it was, in face of a vivid and calamitous ending, to reveal from his own experience the ardent splendours...

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

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

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

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

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...

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...

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

Ernest Ralph Gorse's heartlessness and lack of scruple are matched only by the inventiveness and panache with which he swindles...

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

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

Abducted at thirteen.
Returned at twenty-eight.
Is it time to go back into the labyrinth?

A young woman named Samantha...