Raises one of the deepest and most puzzling questions we can put to ourselves ' What is Love?'

Drawing on writers and thinkers...

This unique anthology offers a more comprehensive look at the poems of Christopher Marlowe, England's first great poet and...

The unmissable new work from Ali Smith, following the dazzling Man Booker-shortlisted Seasonal quartet

One day in post-Brexit,...

You can run away from your life.
But you can't run away from murder.
When her family tragedy is splashed across the newspapers,...

The centenary of Patrick Kavanagh's birth in 2004 provides the ideal opportunity to reappraise one of modern Ireland's greatest...

Colditz Castle: a forbidding Gothic tower on a hill in Nazi Germany. You may have heard about the prisoners and their daring and...

A classic of postwar literature, a small masterpiece of humour, humanity and heroism from one of the best Czech writers

For...

Kurt Austin and Joe Zavala are diving for treasure . . .

Specifically, the legendary hoard of Pirate Queen Ching Shih, lost in...

Freud's epoch-making insights revolutionized our perception of who we are, forming the foundation for psychoanalysis. In...

An opium addict is lost in the jungle; young men wage war against an empire of mutants; a handsome young pirate faces his...

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

'... a human being, an intellectual human being who constantly bends the entire force of his mind on the ridiculous task of...

One year ago, Alex Towne's body was found.
One month ago, his mother saw him on the street.
One week ago, David Raker agreed to...

In the black of night, a woman lands on the fields of Occupied France. Charlotte Grey is on a mission for the British government...

Gratton... , Ireland...

An assassin, a soldier, a prince . . . and a deadly game of power, where no one knows the rules. Prepare to enter the world of...

1431 is a dangerous time for a woman to be defiant.

England has been fighting France for 100 years. At home, power-hungry men...

This bitterly funny Cold War satire on the end of the world expresses our deepest fears of Armageddon, and has become a...

In Candide, Voltaire threw down an audacious challenge to the philosophical views of the Enlightenment to create one of the most...

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

As the nation's oldest serving detectives, we know more about London than almost anyone. After all, we've been walking its...

From the bestselling author of Normandy '44 and Sicily '43, a brilliant new history of the last days of the war.

It took a...

Lynda drives to a secluded beauty spot on the Somerset coast.

CCTV watches her arrive, but never sees her leave.

She is...

The authoritative and fascinating history of the rise and fall of the state-owned British Rail

British Rail wasn't how we're...

It is the scene for our hopeful beginnings and our intended ends, and the timeless experiences of coming and going, meeting,...

Boy is Roald Dahl's extraordinary glimpse into his childhood and early life.

'An autobiography is a book a person writes...

Beginning with a dilemma about whether he spends more money on reading or smoking, George Orwell's entertaining and...

Set against the backdrop of Europe's slide into Fascism, Blue of Noon is a blackly compelling account of depravity and violence....

This unflinching history of the darkest days of the Second World War covers the entire world stage, from the Battle of the...

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

As the interminable case of Jarndyce and Jarndyce grinds its way through the Court of Chancery, it draws together a disparate...