One Wednesday morning in November 1912 the ageing Thomas Hardy, entombed by paper and books and increasingly estranged from his...

The New Start
Fin Macleod, now head of security on a privately owned Lewis estate, is charged with investigating a spate of...

The bestselling novel about beauty, body image and betrayal

eves are designed, not made.
The School trains them to be...

Since my baby was born, I have been able to laugh and see the funny side of things. a) As much as I ever did. b) Not quite as...

Racism, but "managed" through virtual reality

Black Friday, except you die in a bargain-crazed throng

Happiness, but...

Rich with hard-won wisdom and humanity, set in locales from Miami and Port-au-Prince to a small unnamed country in the Caribbean...

The stories found in this collection explore the worlds of thirteen older women, reframing their intellectual and emotional lives...

'Some people believe football is a matter of life and death. I am very disappointed by that attitude. I can assure you it's much...

The newspaper was founded in Rome in the 1950s, a product of passion and a multi-millionaire’s fancy. Eccentric and beloved, it...

For five days in January 1989, the parents of a seven-year-old Tokyo schoolgirl sat and listened to the demands of their...

Something very peculiar is happening in Stockholm. There’s a heatwave on and people cannot turn their lights out or switch their...

Published in 1852, when he was just twenty-four, Childhood was Tolstoy’s first published work, and the first of a trilogy of...

At the age of five, a blind African-American boy is handed over to a brutal state home. Here Ludlow Washington will suffer for...

In 1964, two years after the critically lauded release of his debut novel A Different Drummer, William Melvin Kelley published...

June, 1957. One afternoon, in the backwater town of Sutton, a young black farmer by the name of Tucker Caliban matter-of-factly...

The cult novel of fin de siecle decadence that inspired Oscar Wilde

‘It will be biggest fiasco of the year – but I don’t give...

Almost-true stories for a post-truth world

Wrong! Not Nice! Sad!

A Manhattan party on election night. Liberal media types...

Of everyone in her complicated family, Eva was always closest to her grandfather. She is making a film about his life. She is...

A woman on the edge of the sea finds a girl on the edge of life.

On the flooded coast of Cornwall, Ia Pendilly ekes out a...

A collection of four novellas: each taking place in 1998, each set in the world of SIX FOUR, and each centring around a mystery...

1985. Kazumasa Yuuki, a seasoned reporter at the North Kanto Times, runs a daily gauntlet against the power struggles and office...

They were the Amazing Telemachus Family, who in the mid-1970s achieved widespread fame for their magic and mind reading act. That...

Claire goes missing the night her father agrees to give her up for adoption. Her mother died when she was born. In the tiny...

The Scottish Borderlands, 1590s
Harry Langton is called back to the country of his childhood to aide an old friend, Adam...

In this darkly ironic novel - a quest for truth, a satire, an elegy - Joanna Kavenna displays fearless originality and wit in...

"It was Indiana, it was the dirt she had bloomed up out of, it was who she was, what she felt, how she thought, what she...

Since my baby was born, I have been able to laugh and see the funny side of things. a) As much as I ever did. b) Not quite as...

A DI Ryan Wilkins Mystery

A Shocking Disappearance

A four-year-old girl goes missing in plain sight outside her nursery in...

Ryan Wilkins grew up on a trailer park, a member of what many people would call the criminal classes. As a young Detective...

In a tiny settlement on the west coast of Greenland, 11-year-old Aleq and his best friend, frequent trespassers at a mining site...