Anne Louvet needs to escape from Paris and from memories she cannot face. In the year 1936 she arrives at the faded Hotel du Lion...

Ghost Children is a compassionate and gritty examination of love and loss from one of Britain's most-loved writers, Sue...

A reticent personnel manager living with his mother, Mr Newman shares the prejudices of his times and of his neighbours - and...

In his mind's eye he would see that slim figure in the striking clothes, those wide eyes the colour of forget-me-not, the pert...

The latest novel in the globally bestselling Alex Cross series.

Alex Cross ventures into the rugged Montana wilderness - where...

Expo 58 by Jonathan Coe - Spies, girls and an Englishman abroad. Trust no one.

London, 1958: unassuming civil servant Thomas...

Self-consciously staging itself in the psychotherapy sessions of a disturbed young man, Peter Shaffer's Equus is a shocking...

'They say that a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it is not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.'
Everybody knows...

John Updike was always as much a poet as a storyteller and the poems in this, his final collection, celebrate the everyday, even...

The first Nought Prime Minister, Toney Durbridge, is about to go on trial for the murder of notorious ganglord, Dan Jeavons....

Eclipse was the code name given by the Allies to the occupation of Germany. Moorehead's book describes his experiences in Sicily...

In the aftermath of the uprising, the people of Silo 18 are coming to terms with a new order.

Some embrace the change, others...

Hugh Sebag-Montefiore's Dunkirk: Fight to the Last Man tells the story of the rescue in May 1940 of British soldiers fleeing...

Samuel Delany is one of the most radical and influential science fiction writers of our age, who reinvented the genre with his...

Nefyn has always been an enigma, even to her brother Joseph with whom she lives in a small cottage above a blustery...

A ground-breaking portrait of the most turbulent century in English history

Among foreign observers, seventeenth-century...

In a time more turbulent than any of us could have ever imagined, a woman is attempting to write a book about prophecy in the...

What happens when the person closest to you has led a life of deception?

No one wants to believe their mother is a liar . ....

One of the great World War I antiwar novels - honest, chilling, and brilliantly satirical

Based on the author's experiences...

The twisted maze of Venice's canals has always been shrouded in mystery. Even the celebrated opera house, La Fenice, has seen its...

A scandalous double homicide opens the psychological case files on Alex Cross...

When a glamorous socialite and a high school...

Marooned in a sprawling farmhouse in Norfolk, teenage Linda Radlett feels herself destined for greater things. She longs for...

Garcia... , Штоль...

Some loves are cursed... others are dangerous.
Ridley Duchannes will be the first to tell you that she's a bad girl. She's Dark....

Travelling in Europe with her family, Daisy Miller, an exquisitely beautiful young American woman, presents her fellow-countryman...

In these impressions of the Italian countryside, Lawrence transforms ordinary incidents into passages of intense...

'As I crammed the cream horn voraciously into my mouth, at once I heard Francin's voice saying that no decent woman would eat a...

'People say that on the first night Francis Sancher spent in Riviere au Sel the wind in its temper screamed down from the...

From the author of North and South and Mary Barton, Elizabeth Gaskell's Cranford is a standalone publication of Elizabeth...

A gripping tale of violent jealousy, sexual passion and treachery, Honore de Balzac's Cousin Bette is translated from the French...

The seventh heart-warming, uplifting instalment in the much-loved Railway Girls series is available to pre-order...