Broke and working as a tour guide in Germany, rootless Englishman Ted Mundy catches a glimpse of an old friend hiding in the...

Charmer, fabulist and tailor to Panama's rich and powerful, Harry Pendel loves to tell stories. But when the British spy Andrew...

Le Carre's post-Cold War masterpiece, filled with suspense, betrayal, desire and drama

The Cold War is over and retired secret...

John le Carre's first post-glasnost spy novel, The Russia House captures the effect of a slow and uncertain thaw on ordinary...

West Germany in the 1960s is a simmering cauldron of radical protests. Amid the turmoil Leo Harting, a Second Secretary in the...

When the Department - faded since the war and busy only with bureaucratic battles - hears rumour of a missile base near the West...

After a routine security check by George Smiley, civil servant Samuel Fennan apparently kills himself. When Smiley finds Circus...

M... , Eggers...

The bestselling author of Team of Teams dismantles the Great Man theory of leadership, by profiling leaders whose real stories...

Koko won't do what is expected of her. Defying her family's wishes, she has brought up her eleven-year-old daughter alone in her...

Here's the thing about being Inside. Ain't no one believes that they are.

Ele has never been Outside, but she knows it exists...

In 1958, Sylvia Blackwell, fresh from one of the new post-war Library Schools, takes up a job as children's librarian in a run...

Charlie Calloway has a life most people would kill for - a tight-knit family, a loyal set of friends, and top grades at a...

K... , Barth...

Contagion may alarm doctors but marketers thrive on it. Some concepts are so compelling you have to share them. But what makes an...

'I always wanted to be friends with both my sisters. Perhaps that was the source, really, of all the troubles of my...

When Lana goes missing for four desperate days and returns refusing to speak of what happened, Jen fears the very worst. She...

Captain Lannec has finally managed to buy his own ship with the financial help of his in-laws, the Pitards - and they've never...

Aldo Cassidy is a cautious man. He has a pleasant family, drives a safe, expensive car and wears luxurious clothes. But his...

An illegal Muslim immigrant arrives in Hamburg with a traumatic past and the key to a fortune held in a private bank. He says his...

As an interpreter of African languages, Bruno Salvador is much in demand. He makes it a principle to remain neutral - no matter...

A classic slice of Southern Gothic, shot through with psychological suspense - now the basis for Sofia Coppola's highly...

Spall... , Xander...

How are you spending your most valuable hours? The first few choices you make each morning can unlock greater productivity,...

Drawing on George Eliot's own childhood experiences to craft an unforgettable story of first love, sibling rivalry and regret,...

'It was the best of times, it was the worst of times...'

Vividly interweaving epic historical drama with personal tragedy,...

Oscar Wilde's alluring novel of decadence and sin was a succes de scandale on publication. It follows Dorian Gray who, enthralled...

Three men trek to the remote African interior in search of a lost friend - and reach, at the end of a perilous journey, an...

A new translation of Simenon's gripping novel about lives transformed by deceit and the destructive power of lust.

It was all...

'...revealing great shining fangs more than three inches long.'

Some of the most macabre and wonderful of all Chinese stories,...

A moving nineteenth-century account - lost for many decades - of a Chinese official's all-consuming love for his wife.

'Our...

Poor Cecile! And yet she was still young. Maigret had seen her papers: barely twenty-eight years old. But it would be difficult...

One of a major new Classics series - books that have changed the history of thought, in sumptuous, clothbound...