From Goya's Disasters of War to news footage and photographs of the conflicts in Vietnam, Rwanda and Bosnia, pictures have been...

From the multi-million copy bestselling author of the Discworld series, discover a truly unmissable collection of lost short...

Shocking news reaches the Thursday Murder Club.

An old friend in the antiques business has been killed, and a dangerous...

The Barnes family is in trouble. Dickie's once-lucrative car dealership is going under, and while his wife is frantically selling...

Nisha Cantor and Sam Kemp are two very different women.

Nisha, lives the globetrotting life of the seriously wealthy, until...

Daphne always loved the way Peter told their story. That is until it became the prologue to his actual love story with his...

A wildly ambitious story of the making of a colossal, star-studded, multimillion-dollar superhero action film, and the humble...

Nine-year-old Oskar Schell is an inventor, amateur entomologist, Francophile, letter writer, pacifist, natural historian,...

'I am myself my own fever and pain'
Jacques Deza has been told he has a gift: he can see through people; guess just from their...

In a ruined and hostile landscape, in a future few have been unlucky enough to survive, a community exists in a giant underground...

Where the Stress Falls is divided into three sections: the first, 'Reading', includes ardent pieces on writers from Sontag's own...

'Who would name a child Sunshine, then give her away?'
Chrissie has always wanted to be a mother. After months of trying to...

In 1842, eight years before his death, Balzac described Ursule Mirouet as the masterpiece of all the studies of human society...

The First Rule is the most important: 'Always run, never fight'.

For 3000 years Mia's family has shaped Earth's history to...

'The beginning of summer. Perhaps it crosses my mind even now while I wait for news of Amy that something is coming towards us....

Emerging from the grit and stigma of poverty to a life of fairytale privilege under the wing of her aunt, the beautiful and...

Two strangers meet on a bus along a dusty road in rural France. Tati is a tough, work-worn widow, who runs the farm her late...

America is on the brink of civil war. Only Thomas Cale can stop it...
Thomas Cale - the world's most dangerous yet reluctant...

The Water-Babies, A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby is a children's novel by the Reverend Charles Kingsley. Written in 1862-1863 as a...

'There's a trick to time. You can make it expand or you can make it contract. Make it shorter or make it longer…'
Some moments...

Richard Hannay has just returned to England after years in South Africa and is thoroughly bored with his life in London. But then...

A beautiful story of love and survival for fans of Ruth Hogan and Sally Page.
A lost child. A Long-kept secret. The house that...

The American Deep South, in the 1970s. Velma Henry, once a formidable political activist, has grown weary and disillusioned with...

Lindy Morris is stuck. She lives in rural Ireland, banished to a lonely bungalow by her Granda Morris, with only her Auntie Bell...

A car wreck on the slopes of Mount Morgan puts insurance tycoon Lyman Felt in the hospital. While Lyman recovers, two women meet...

Edited by Hollis Robbins and Henry Louis Gates, Jr; this collection comprises work from forty-nine writers arranged into sections...

Tabucchi... , Звево...

Jhumpa Lahiri's landmark collection brings together forty writers that reflect over a hundred years of Italy's vibrant and...

An anthology of Great War short stories by British writers, both famous and lesser-known authors, men and women, during the war...

Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia, leaves the easy life of the Happy Valley, accompanied by his sister Nekayah, her attendant Pekuah,...

Mr Polly is an ordinary middle-aged man who is tired of his wife's nagging and his dreary job as the owner of a regional...