Created by the seventeenth-century philosopher and mathematician Pascal, the essays contained in Human Happiness are a curiously...

This investigation of religion by greatest psychoanalyst of the twentieth-century explores the role faith can take in the life of...

John Ruskin overturned Victorian society’s ideas about art and architecture, arguing that ancient buildings must be conserved for...

One night in the reform club, Phileas Fogg bets his companions that he can travel across the globe in just eighty days. Breaking...

A castle filled with intrigue, a plotting duchess and a mysterious death in Catherine Bailey's The Secret Rooms.

At 6 am on...

Bond is back. With a vengeance.

1960s London.

M has summoned agent 007. It's the swinging Sixties and a flood of...

Michael Pollan's In Defence of Food is a simple invitation to junk the science, ditch the diet and instead rediscover the joys of...

Out of his smoke-filled rooms in Baker Street stalks a figure to cause the criminal classes to quake in their boots and rush from...

Rupert Isaacson's The Horse Boy is one family's epic journey to rescue their son.

Rupert and Kirstin Isaacson were heartbroken...

The Stone Gods is one of Jeanette Winterson's most imaginative novels -- an interplanetary love story; a traveller's tale; a hymn...

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

The masterful second novel in Pat Barker's classic 'Regeneration' trilogy - from the Booker Prize-winning and Women's...

A woman washes up on a Sussex beach, barely alive.

She's wearing an old-fashioned dress and her hair has been hacked...

Be whisked away in the moving story of a girl travelling far and wide for a better life, from the internationally bestselling...

'There!' Pop said. 'There's the house. There's Gore Court for you. What about that, eh? How's that strike you? Better than St...

'Christening? We never said nothing about no christening, Ma, did we?'

And so with the appearance of a letter announcing the...

'Teetotal!' Ma said. 'It's a libel. He'll never live it down. He'll never be able to hold his head up again. Whatever will people...

'I should like to go to France,' said Ma.

'God Almighty,' Pop said. 'What for?'

'For a holiday of course,' Ma said. 'I...

'Excuse me, sir, but may I be of assistance? Ah, I see I have alarmed you. Do not be frightened by my beard. I am a lover of...

Got a sweet tooth but don't want to spend hours in the kitchen? Nigel Slater's collection of puddings can ALL be ready in less...

Nigel Slater fans will love this bestselling classic recipe book, packed full of simple but tasty dishes.

'This is real...

Saul David's All The King's Men is a thrilling history of the British Redcoat from the English Civil War to Waterloo.

Between...

In his extraordinary and highly charged new novel, John Updike tackles one of America's most burning issues - the threat of...

This landmark work challenges the separatist doctrines which have come to dominate our understanding of the world. Appiah revives...

This fresh and brilliant history of how philosophy became established in English presents a new form of philosophical...

James Lovelock's bestselling The Revenge of Gaia: Why the Earth is Fighting Back - and How we can Still Save Humanity is a dire...

'There once was a man who, one night between the main course and the sweet at a dinner party, went upstairs and locked himself in...

Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have...

Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have...

The Testament of Gideon Mack is James Robertson's acclaimed novel exploring faith and belief.

For Gideon Mack, faithless...