'Ex-CID. Ex-New York. Ex-cellent' reads the sign outside the Satisfaction Guarantee Detective Agency. Cephas Buthelezi certainly...

The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency published in 1998, introduced the world to the one and only Precious Ramotswe, the engaging and...

Rob and Jamie are great friends from childhood. They have grown up together and become top climbers, but have since become...

The Athenian Murders is a brilliant, very entertaining and absolutely original literary mystery, revolving round two intertwined...

It is 1950 and the Liverpool reporatory theatre company is rehearsing its Christmas production of Peter Pan, a story of childhood...

Rich or poor, five people, seemingly very different, find their lives in the capital connected in undreamed-of ways. There is...

When Polly and Theo Noble book the Casa Luna, near Cortona, for their summer holiday they plan a civilised Anglo-American...

The year is 1929 and Honora Beecher and her husband, Sexton, are just settling into a new marriage and a cottage on the coast of...

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

According to Queeney is a masterly evocation of the last years of Dr Johnson, arguably Britain’s greatest Man of Letters. The...

Marigold Green calls herself 'hideous, quaint and barmy'. Other people calle her Bilgewater, a corruption of Bill's daughter....

Set 100 years ago in Boston, Fortune's Rocks is a classic of literary and romantic storytelling.
Fourteen-year-old Olympic...

In his startling and singular new short story collection, David Foster Wallace nudges at the boundaries of fiction with...

When Master Georgie - George Hardy, surgeon and photographer - sets off from the cold squalor of Victorian Liverpool for the heat...

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

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

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...

Marnus is terrified he will not fulfil the expectations of his elite Afrikaner family who are certain of their superiority. But...

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....

Accused of mocking the inviolate codes of Islam, the Persian poet and sage Omar Khayyam fortuitously finds sympathy with the very...

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

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

Vidal's historical novel set in the 5th century BC and narrated by Cyrus Spitama, son of a Persian prince and Greek sorceress,...

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...

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