In space everyone can hear you sing

A century ago, intelligent space-faring life was nearly destroyed during the Sentience...

Severin Unck is the headstrong young daughter of a world famous film director. She has inherited her father's love of the big...

Two parents stand by powerlessly as their only child seems intent on destroying herself. Meanwhile the mother - a novelist -...

And how to tell what the best things were? Well, that was easy: the best things were the ones with the most people looking at...

Home is certainly not where Del's heart is. After a local scandal led to her parents' divorce and the rest of her family turned...

You've never seen romance do this before. So brutally honest and breathtakingly perverse you'll want to throw this book at the...

On an oil platform in the middle of the North Atlantic, a terrifying series of illnesses is spreading through the crew. When...

Owens... , Owens Mark

Carrying little more than a change of clothes and a pair of binoculars, two young Americans, Mark and Delia Owens, caught a plane...

A young man is found brutally murdered in the middle of the snowed-in village of Wivenhoe. Over his body stands another man, axe...

From one of the most dazzling and iconic writers of our time comes an electrifying, deeply moving novel about the quest for...

In Jonathan Dee's elegant and explosive new novel, Sugar Street, an unnamed male narrator has hit the road with a large sum of...

In this classic thriller, Ira Levin imagines Dr Josef Mengele's nightmarish plot to restore the Third Reich. Alive and hiding in...

In Jennifer Egan's highly acclaimed first novel, set in 1978, the political drama and familial tensions of the 1960s form a...

These eleven masterful stories - the first collection from acclaimed author Jennifer Egan - deal with loneliness and longing,...

Growing up amid the starvation and oppression of 1990s North Korea, 10-year-old Cho Jun-su stumbles upon a mysterious game, left...

This was my home. This harbour and sea. These golden alleys. But the town I grew up in has disappeared.

Broken by the death of...

In 2003, Osama al-Kharrat returns to Beirut after many years in America to stand vigil at his father's deathbed. As the family...

When Israel Finch and Tommy Basca, the town bullies, break into the home of school caretaker Jeremiah Land, wielding a baseball...

Peach is alone and adrift in London's sprawl, with a stalled art career and an unhappiness she knows won't be cured by a...

In The Refugees, Viet Thanh Nguyen gives voice to lives led between two worlds, the adopted homeland and the country of birth....

London. A city robbing and killing people since 50BC.

The Vizz: an industry in crisis. Baxter Stone, a film maker and...

Set on the eve of the financial crash of 2008, Barcelona Dreaming is made up of three stories that are linked by time and place,...

The world as we know it is ending. Evolution has reversed itself, affecting every living creature on earth. Science cannot stop...

Mr Baxter is ninety-four years old when he falls down his staircase and finds himself resident at Melrose Gardens Retirement...

London, present day.

Jean, a failing journalist in her late thirties, finds herself entertaining a married man - a handsome,...

Late summer in North Dakota, 1999: Landreaux Iron stalks a deer along the edge of the property bordering his own. He shoots with...

Father and Son, Landyn and Vale Midwinter, are Suffolk farmers, living together on land their family has worked for generations....

A determined young Lancashire girl arrives in London intent on a stage career - this tale from the author of I Capture the Castle...

Hardworking widow Dilly Carey has struggled out of poverty to make a successful life for herself. Surrounded by her children and...

A desperate act to save her family . . . Dilly is devastated: with her husband unable to work and four children already at home,...