Vienna, 1912. Behind every painting, there is a story...

A new century is dawning. Vienna is at its zenith, an opulent,...

When several children from the same village start succumbing to a mysterious illness, the quest to discover the cause has...

May 1940: In the face of a lightning German advance, the British Army found themselves, stunned, broken, beaten, their backs...

Zachary Cloudesley is gifted in a remarkable way. But not all gifts are a blessing...

Leadenhall Street, London,...

Skulduggery, power struggles and politics, The Private Lives of the Saints offers an original and fascinating re-examination of...

Axel Heyst, a dreamer and a restless drifter, believes he can avoid suffering by cutting himself off from others. Then he becomes...

The urgent and unforgettable true story of post-Katrina New Orleans . . .

In August 2005, as Hurricane Katrina blew in, the...

This compact novel, completed in 1900, as with so many of the great novels of the time, is at its baseline a book of the sea. An...

The bestselling epic novel of family, treachery, rivalry, religious fervour and the turbulent fate of a royal African...

The powerful, urgent memoir and manifesto on never giving up from Booker prize-winning trailblazer, Bernardine Evaristo

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A body in the pool. A friend who might be an enemy. A vacation they'll never forget . . .

Linden has always felt like an...

Presented as a miraculous cure-all, Tono-Bungay is in fact nothing other than a pleasant-tasting liquid with no positive effects....

Two sisters, Keely and Nina, disappear without a trace.

Days later, Keely comes back, covered in blood.

It's not her blood....

Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's...

One man hunts obsessively for his lost identity, in this intoxicating noir masterpiece from the winner of the Nobel Prize in...

During a quiet spell in June Maigret is called to investigate the disappearance of a reputable businessman. When a body is...

A highly entertaining and moving journal chronicling J. R. Ackerley's time in India

In the 1920s, the young J. R. Ackerley...

'Perhaps that moment had been exceptional, but still, I felt alive. That pressure on my chest means being alive.'

Forty-nine,...

Susan Hill's classic novel Strange Meeting tells of the power of love amidst atrocities.

'He was afraid to go to sleep. For...

She's faked her profile picture. He's just a fake . . .

When happily divorced Joni finds Ant via a dating app, neither is...

'They cut her hair before they dragged her to the place of sacrifice. Her mouth was gagged to stop her cursing her father, her...

No goodbye

When Leonard Franks and his wife Ellie left London for their dream retirement in the seclusion of Dartmoor,...

Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's...

When three teens are landed with a community service order after an incident involving a spray can and an inconveniently timed...

Eyes half-closed, head tilted against the back of his seat, he seemed not to be thinking, as the plane flew over a thick carpet...

I can still see Simenon coming into my office the next day, pleased with himself, displaying even more self-confidence, if...

Ivan Turgenev's Fathers and Sons explores the ageless conflict between generations through a period in Russian history when a new...

Meet Ingrid. She works on a gargantuan luxury cruise liner, where she spends her days reorganizing the merchandise and waiting...

Soldier. Farmer. Felon. Writer. Father. Lover.
One man, many lives.

Born in 1799, Cashel Greville Ross experiences myriad...

The story of the orphan Oliver, who runs away from the workhouse to be taken in by a den of thieves, shocked readers with its...