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

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

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

'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...

Nineteen-fifty-three is synonymous in the British memory with the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II on 2 June. But less well known...

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

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

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...

The Midnight Bell, a pub on the Euston Road, is the pulse of this brilliant and compassionate trilogy. It is here where the...

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

Detective Catherine McLeod was always taught that in Glasgow, they don't do whodunit. They do score-settling, vendettas and petty...

The third novel in the London-based Corduroy Mansions series from Alexander McCall Smith, comparable in warmth and humour to 44...

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

A novel of high adventure, great storytelling and moral purpose, based on an extraordinary true story of eight years in the...