When two girls are abducted and killed in Missouri, journalist Camille Preaker is sent back to her home town to report on the...

Within the Tokyo underworld there is an industry which exists to break up marriages. It is known today as wakaresaseya - agents...

Jakop is a lonely man.

Divorced from his wife, with no friends apart from his constant companion Pelle, he spends his life...

Nora is an unflinching frontierswoman awaiting the return of the men in her life, biding her time with her youngest son - who is...

Rick Dalton - Once he had his own TV series, but now Rick's a washed-up villain-of-the week drowning his sorrows in whiskey...

For 15-year-old Michael Berg, a chance meeting with an older woman leads to far more than he ever imagined. The woman in question...

Henry Marsh has spent four decades operating on the human brain. In this searing and provocative memoir following his retirement...

Occupied Paris in 1942, a dark, treacherous city now ruled by the German security services, where French resistance networks are...

'A Girl Comes of Age Against the Knife.'
So begins the story of Betty.
Born in a bathtub in 1954 to a Cherokee father and...

Everyone tells Martha Friel she is clever and beautiful, a brilliant writer who has been loved every day of her adult life by one...

Julian Fellowes's Belgravia is the story of a secret. A secret that unravels behind the porticoed doors of London's grandest...

Kate has always been a wanderer. A well-published author, married several times, she has lived a life full of exploration. Now,...

Meridian Hill, the brilliant and inquisitive daughter of a working-class Black family in the American south, comes of age against...

Olga is an orphan raised by her grandmother in a Prussian village around the turn of the 20th century. Smart and precocious, she...

A novel unlike anything that came before it that changed all that came after it - a cult classic for readers of Maggie Nelson,...

A producer at the Belfast bureau of the BBC, Tessa is at work one day when the news of another IRA raid comes on the air. As the...

"It's the truth," the women said from their mattress "Everything is nice".

Alva, a widow, states a preference for plain...

Canon Daniel Clement is Rector of Champton, where he lives alongside his widowed mother - opinionated, fearless, ever-so-slightly...

The Sunday Times bestselling manifesto for a twenty-first century understanding of human evolution and variation - and a weapon...

If you could choose just sixteen moments to define your entire life, what would they be?
Cass Wheeler has seen it all - from the...

Paris, 1938. Democratic forces are locked in struggle as the shadow of war edges over Europe.

Cristian Ferrar, a handsome...

Who are you?
What have we done to each other?

These are the questions Nick Dunne finds himself asking on the morning of his...

Libby Day was just seven years old when her older brother massacred her family while she hid in a cupboard. Her evidence helped...

Charlie Gordon, IQ 68, is a floor sweeper and the gentle butt of everyone's jokes - until an experiment in the enhancement of...

Who are you?
What have we done to each other?

These are the questions Nick Dunne finds himself asking on the morning of his...

What is it like to be a brain surgeon?

How does it feel to hold someone's life in your hands, to cut through the stuff that...

A brilliant sci-fi novel from one of the last century's most influential pop culture figures.
Substance D - otherwise known as...

Leyli Maal is a beautiful Malian woman, mother of three, living in a tiny apartment on the outskirts of Marseille.

Her quiet...

The echo of the novels of The Cemetery of Forgotten Books series resonates in the stories of Carlos Ruiz Zafon: gathered here for...

When March Briscoe returns to East Texas two years after he was caught having an affair with his brother's wife, the Briscoe...