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Sometime around the turn of the twentieth century, something happened, something... weird. In the dark halls of ivy-clad manors,...

For the most part written in the 1970s during the height of second-wave feminism, Sontag's essays are strikingly relevant to our...

From Goya's Disasters of War to news footage and photographs of the conflicts in Vietnam, Rwanda and Bosnia, pictures have been...

It was one of the images of the twentieth century: two boys, walking behind the coffin of their mother, Princess Diana. Billions...

From the multi-million copy bestselling author of the Discworld series, discover a truly unmissable collection of lost short...

Shocking news reaches the Thursday Murder Club.

An old friend in the antiques business has been killed, and a dangerous...

The Barnes family is in trouble. Dickie's once-lucrative car dealership is going under, and while his wife is frantically selling...

Nisha Cantor and Sam Kemp are two very different women.

Nisha, lives the globetrotting life of the seriously wealthy, until...

In a classroom in Seoul, a young woman watches her Greek language teacher at the blackboard. She tries to speak but has lost her...

Daphne always loved the way Peter told their story. That is until it became the prologue to his actual love story with his...

The Power of God. The Ambition of Men.

Now an BAFTA and Oscar Winning Movie.

Behind the locked doors of the Sistine Chapel,...

A wildly ambitious story of the making of a colossal, star-studded, multimillion-dollar superhero action film, and the humble...

Nine-year-old Oskar Schell is an inventor, amateur entomologist, Francophile, letter writer, pacifist, natural historian,...

What are you looking for?

So asks Tokyo's most enigmatic librarian, Sayuri Komachi.

But she is no ordinary...

Your ability to change everything - including yourself - starts here

Chemist Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman. In...

'Fear is the greatest force that exists, as long as you can adapt to it'

Jacques Deza has been recruited into an undercover...

'I am myself my own fever and pain'
Jacques Deza has been told he has a gift: he can see through people; guess just from their...

In a ruined and hostile landscape, in a future few have been unlucky enough to survive, a community exists in a giant underground...

'Lightning makes no sound until it strikes'

This is the momentous story of the Civil Rights movement, told by one of its most...

Where the Stress Falls is divided into three sections: the first, 'Reading', includes ardent pieces on writers from Sontag's own...

'Who would name a child Sunshine, then give her away?'
Chrissie has always wanted to be a mother. After months of trying to...

Three friends.
Three 'perfect' lives (or so they pretend).
Here comes Trouble

Ronke wants Happily Ever After and 2.2. kids....

In 1842, eight years before his death, Balzac described Ursule Mirouet as the masterpiece of all the studies of human society...

The First Rule is the most important: 'Always run, never fight'.

For 3000 years Mia's family has shaped Earth's history to...

'The beginning of summer. Perhaps it crosses my mind even now while I wait for news of Amy that something is coming towards us....

In this extraordinary non-fiction novel, based on a true story, Tahar Ben Jelloun traces the experiences of Salim who, in 1971,...

'The universe is, instant by instant, recreated anew . . . The perfect moment is now. Be glad of it.'

Time is a resource....

Emerging from the grit and stigma of poverty to a life of fairytale privilege under the wing of her aunt, the beautiful and...

One of the most celebrated works of classic literature for children, The Wind in the Willows follows Mole, Rat, Toad and Badger...

Two strangers meet on a bus along a dusty road in rural France. Tati is a tough, work-worn widow, who runs the farm her late...