Two families. One night. A constellation of lives changed forever.
When retired doctor Ben Wilf comes across ten-year-old Waldo...

To tell the truth, religious faith is really just a matter of believing stories. The world is governed by stories, and it is for...

A thrilling biography of Benito Mussolini's favourite daughter, and a heart-stopping account of the unravelling of the Fascist...

In this funny, erudite, endlessly curious, uncannily prescient collection of essays cultural icon Margaret Atwood asks:

- Why...

After fifty years in London, Alice wants to live out her days in the land of her birth. Her children are divided on whether she...

Four generations. Three sisters. One divided nation.

Tricked aboard a boat to East Africa, Pirbhai is only thirteen when he...

Twyla and Roberta have known each other since they were eight years old, when they were thrown together as roommates in a girls'...

If you are reading this, it's likely you already have some affinity with humanism, even if you don't think of yourself in those...

'Women need solitude in order to find again the true essence of themselves.'

Holidaying by the sea, and taking inspiration...

Atwood's first new fiction publication since The Testaments, this deeply personal collection includes a stunning sequence that...

Summer is coming to a close on Long Island, and Alex is no longer welcome...

One misstep at a dinner party and the older man...

As World War One brings women unexpected new freedoms, bookbinder Peggy has the chance at a new future.

'Your job is to bind...

In 1838, a young woman was given a diary on her wedding day. Collecting snippets of fabric from a range of garments she carefully...

Enlightenment Britain was ablaze with ambition and energy. Great writers like Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Paine, Samuel Johnson,...

This is the story of how we came to Frith. And we're never, ever, ever leaving.'

Amy Connell and Lan Honey are having the best...

A brilliantly perceptive, painfully true and funny journey deep into one family's foibles, from the 1950s right up to...

Iron Curtain. A Love StoryTwo worlds on the brink of change in a love story doomed to disaster

Milena is a Red Princess living...

A powerful work of memoir and storytelling that will change the way we think about the natural world.

Unearthed is the story...

A wild and gripping novel about one woman's quest to reintroduce wolves to the Scottish Highlands at any cost.

Inti Flynn...

From the Booker-shortlisted author of We Need New Names, Glory is an energy burst, an exhilarating joyride. It is the story of an...

In her early twenties, Christie Watson was convinced she'd found her soulmate, in a glowing flash of light that turned out to be...

The malodorous horrors of Sports Day.
Bracing yourself for Parents' Evening.
Refereeing teenage relationship dramas.

This is...

In thirteen chapters, Belgian poet Charlotte Van den Broeck goes in search of buildings that were fatal for their architects -...

A ground-breaking new study brings us a very different picture of the Second World War, asking fundamental questions about...

Matt Rowland Hill grew up the son of a minister in an evangelical Christian church in south Wales and then south-east England. It...

Growing up in his small hometown, Mark Vanhoenacker spun the illuminated globe in his bedroom and dreamt of elsewhere - of...

A romantic and comic gem from a precocious Victorian nine-year-old that has charmed readers for a century

The Young Visiters...

Why was there a Turkish mosque adorning Britain's most famous botanic garden in in the eighteenth century? And more importantly,...

Simon Serrailler finds himself in devastating new territory as a sophisticated drugs network sets its sights on Lafferton and the...

Let Nigella guide you through the year with the ultimate in comfort cooking. Featuring all the inspiring, achievable, and...