One of the first bestsellers in Germany after the Second World War, Berlin Finale is a breathtaking novel of resistance set...

The great novel of 1920s Berlin life, in a superb new translation by Michael Hofmann

Franz Biberkopf is back on the streets of...

Throughout the twentieth century, Berlin stood at the centre of a convulsing world. This history is often viewed as separate...

Paul Kildea's Benjamin Britten: A Life in the Twentieth Century is the definitive biography of Britain's greatest modern composer...

Perhaps no fairy tale is as widely known as 'Beauty and the Beast' - and perhaps no fairy tale exists in as many variations....

Garcia... , Штоль...

Some loves are meant to be. Others are cursed . . .

Ethan wate is in love with a caster girl.
When he looks at Lena, it's...

A mystery writer turns detective to protect the woman he loves. But is he hunter or hunted?
The chance meeting between a crime...

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

Ezeulu, headstrong chief priest of the god Ulu, is worshipped by the six villages of Umuaro. But he is beginning to find his...

If your partner doesn't answer a text quickly, do you become anxious? Do you check up on your partner online to know their every...

Chris, Ikem and Beatrice are like-minded friends working under the military regime of His Excellency, the Sandhurst-educated...

'This is a very personal book, about being alone and lost'. In 1975 Kapuscinski's employers sent him to Angola to cover the civil...

When waiting for an orphan boy to help with the work at Green Gables, Marilla and Matthew Cuthbert are in for a big...

Growing up in the world of the 'five towns' of industrial England, with their furnaces and chimneys, huddled red-brown streets,...

Twenty-one, passionate and headstrong, Ann Veronica Stanley is determined to live her own life. When her father forbids her from...

'The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again: but already it was impossible to...

Is it ever too late to rewrite the past?
When Lina and Ash were at school, they buried a time capsule containing letters about...

A poor doctor's daughter cures the King of France and, in return, is promised marriage to any nobleman she wishes. But the proud...

A golden Cadillac big enough to cross the ocean has been seen sailing along the streets of Harlem. A hit-and-run victim's been...

In Joe and Kate Keller's family garden, an apple tree - a memorial to their son Larry, lost in the Second World War - has been...

Asser's Life of King Alfred, written in 893, is a revealing account of one of the greatest of medieval kings. Composed by a monk...

The Agricola is both a portrait of Julius Agricola - the most famous governor of Roman Britain and Tacitus' well-loved and...

A series of provocative discussions on everything from individual authors to contemporary religious thinking, Against...

Losing the love of your life once is tragic. Twice looks like carelessness . . .

Rachel Walsh is a survivor: she survived...

Quentin is a successful lawyer in New York, but inside his head he is struggling with his own sense of guilt and the shadows of...

Brendan has always lived a careful, constrained life. A salesman who never liked the work, he's a man who has stayed in his...

Advertisements for Myself is a comprehensive collection of the best of Norman Mailer's essays, stories, interviews and journalism...

Featuring poems scattered over nearly thirty years of writing and salvaged from the diaries 'authored' by one Sue Townsend, this...

'From what is it they flee?'
He took a while to reply. By the time he spoke the men had gone inside. He said quietly, 'They...

Seven Londoners are invited to an opulent dinner party. From a brutal hedge-funder to a lovelorn barrister, a Polish footballer...