'In this painting of Leonardo's there was a smile so pleasing that it seemed divine rather than human.'

Often called "the...

Hubertus Bigend, the Machiavellian head of global ad-agency Blue Ant, wants to uncover the maker of an obscurely fashionable...

'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...

'Lightning makes no sound until it strikes'

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

Never before published in Kerouac's lifetime, Jack Kerouac's Wake Up is a clear and powerful study of the life and works of...

'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....

Robin Lane Fox's Travelling Heroes: Greeks and their Myths in the Epic Age of Homer proposes a new way of thinking about ancient...

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...

America is on the brink of civil war. Only Thomas Cale can stop it...
Thomas Cale - the world's most dangerous yet reluctant...

The Water-Babies, A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby is a children's novel by the Reverend Charles Kingsley. Written in 1862-1863 as a...

'There should be no combination of events for which the wit of man cannot conceive an explanation.'

In this tale drawn from...

An engaging comedy of love, The Two Gentlemen of Verona deals with the conflict between friendship and romance, and features one...

'There's a trick to time. You can make it expand or you can make it contract. Make it shorter or make it longer…'
Some moments...

Richard Hannay has just returned to England after years in South Africa and is thoroughly bored with his life in London. But then...

Part of a new six-volume series of the best in classic horror, selected by award-winning director Guillermo del Toro.

Howard...

The Story of Hong Gildong is arguably the single most important work of classic Korean fiction. Like its English counterpart,...

Selection includes The Portrait of Mr W.H., Wilde's defence of Dorian Gray, reviews, and the writings from 'Intentions' (1891):...

A troubled insomniac in 1890s England falls suddenly into a sleep-like trance, from which he does not awake for over two hundred...

A beautiful story of love and survival for fans of Ruth Hogan and Sally Page.
A lost child. A Long-kept secret. The house that...

Tim Lott's parents, Jack and Jean, met at the Empire Snooker Hall, Ealing, in 1951, in a world that to him now seems 'as strange...

The American Deep South, in the 1970s. Velma Henry, once a formidable political activist, has grown weary and disillusioned with...