Describing Tolstoy's crisis of depression and estrangement from the world, A Confession (1879) is an autobiographical work of...

When Connecticut mechanic and foreman Hank Morgan is knocked unconscious, he wakes not to the familiar scenes of...

Flora's been in love with her husband for twenty years. The trouble is, he's been married to someone else for the past...

'Just take a look,' Duclos said in an undertone, pointing to the scene all round them, the picture-book town, with everything in...

How many is too many? Dive into the hilarious, heartwarming bestseller from the author of A Cornish Summer

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Gods have fallen. A queen is rising.
And the world will never be the same.
The throne of the Kethran Empire lies empty, its...

'Yes, bastard, you're the one I love'

A pair of lovers - a young female journalist and an older man who owns an isolated farm...

Moonlight, sake, spring blossom, idle moments, a woman's hair - these exquisite reflections on life's fleeting pleasures by a...

Once I had four brothers. Three of them are dead. I am next.
Felix Ashe is sure of only one thing. In thirty days, on his...

At seventeen, Renee Rushmore lives at home with her father Ivan - a cruel man who rules the house with an iron fist and keeps...

Can she escape her mother's scandalous past?

Cath Raine and her sister have had a difficult childhood. Abandoned by their...

Margaret Drabble is one of the major literary figures of her generation. In this collection of her complete short fiction from...

Published in 1957, two years after its author's death at the age of forty-five, A Death in the Family remains a near-perfect work...

A counter-terror operation, codenamed Wildlife, is being mounted in Britain's most precious colony, Gibraltar. Its purpose: to...

A counter-terror operation, codenamed Wildlife, is being mounted in Britain's most precious colony, Gibraltar. Its purpose: to...

In A Discourse on Inequality Rousseau sets out to demonstrate how the growth of civilization corrupts man’s natural happiness and...

'Our home has never been anything other than a play-house. I've been your doll-wife here, just as at home I was Daddy's...

New Year's Day, 1889.

In Edinburgh's lunatic asylum, a patient escapes as a nurse lays dying. Leading the manhunt are...

Mailer's superb account, written as it was happening, of the first attempt to land men on the moon

'Houston, Tranquility Base...

From his prison cell, Jasper Dean tells the unlikely story of his scheming father Martin, his crazy Uncle Terry and how the three...

A stranger in the house can only mean trouble

The London family is in crisis.

Newly-divorced Tony is fantasizing about...

The third in the late Philip Kerr's universally acclaimed Berlin Noir trilogy, A German Requiem sees detective Bernie Gunther...

As Martin Luther King, Jr. prepared for the Birmingham campaign in early 1963, he drafted the final sermons for Strength to Love,...

Learn how to utilise cupboard staples and fresh ingredients in this accessible collection of low-budget, delicious family...

Des is a good husband, a good father - a good man.

He encourages his wife's artistic endeavours, reads bedtime stories to his...

Overweight, oversexed and over there . . .

Morgan Leafy is hardly the most respectable of Her Majesty's representatives in the...

A masterly story of myth, rebellion, love, friendship and betrayal from one of Africa's great writers, Ngugi wa Thiong'o's A...

The first popular biography of Edward I in a generation by a major new historian.

This is the first major biography for a...

Olivia Potts' mother died when she just twenty-five. Stricken with grief, she did something life changing and rather ridiculous:...

Evelyn Waugh's celebrated tale of decadence and social disintegration, now in a beautiful hardback edition with a new...