Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. Born a poor black tobacco farmer, her cancer cells – taken without...

Blending weird fiction with the police procedural, The City & The City is an existential thriller like no other.

When the body...

Jon Krakauer's Into Thin Air is the true story of a 24-hour period on Everest, when members of three separate expeditions were...

In April 1992, Chris McCandless set off alone into the Alaskan wild. He had given his savings to charity, abandoned his car and...

In surprising stories that take us into the worlds of hitmen, insurance frauds and modern-day slaves, Jenny Kleeman explores the...

Fuyuko Irie is a freelance proofreader in her thirties. Living alone in an overwhelming city and unable to form meaningful...

Bridget Jones has finally found love with man-of-her-dreams Mark Darcy. The Wilderness Years are over! But for how long... and is...

Welcome to Bridget’s first diary: mercilessly funny, endlessly touching and utterly addictive.

A dazzlingly urban satire on...

Zach Wells is a perpetually dissatisfied geologist-slash-paleobiologist. Expert in an incredibly niche field, he spends his days...

Percival Everett by Virgil Russell is a story inside a story inside a story. A man visits his ageing father in a nursing home,...

An artist, a cop, a cowboy, several fly fishermen and even a reluctant romance novelist inhabit these revealing and often...

Wala Kitu is a professor of mathematics at Brown University, specializing in nothing. Kitu is content with nothing – studying it,...

The Mississippi River, 1861. When the enslaved Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a new owner in New Orleans and...

A portal through time forces a fabric-seller in ancient Baghdad to grapple with past errors and the temptation of second chances;...

From a soaring Babylonian tower that connects a flat Earth to the firmament above, to a world where angelic visitations are a...

Ro is stuck. She’s just entered her thirties, she’s estranged from her mother, and her boyfriend has just left her to join a...

Trouble has come to the garden. Its inhabitants live an eternal and unblemished life, tending to the bountiful fields, orchards...

The Crossing forms the second part of Cormac McCarthy's critically acclaimed Border Trilogy, a story that began with All the...

From the internationally bestselling author of The Order of the Day: Eric Vuillard once again takes us behind the scenes at a...

The million-copy bestselling series.

Toshikazu Kawaguchi’s poignant Before We Say Goodbye, translated from Japanese, explores...

In seventh-century Ireland, a scholar and priest called Artt has a dream telling him to leave the sinful world behind. Taking two...

Twenty-year-old Lilja is in love.

He is older and beautiful, a Derrida-quoting intellectual.

He is also a serial cheater,...

Sparrow tells the story of Jacob, son of no one, last survivor of an abandoned British Roman town. Raised in a brothel on the...

The penultimate volume of Peter Ackroyd's masterful History of England series, Dominion begins in 1815 as national glory...

At dusk on a November evening in 2020 a woman slips out of her garden gate and turns up the hill. Kate is in the middle of two...

Five years ago, a toxic microplastics storm killed most of the population. Now Katie, a young mother, must forage and hunt the...

Lucy lives with her husband Jake and their two boys. Her life is devoted to her children, her days mapped out by their finely...

Disorientation by Elaine Hsieh Chou is an uproarious and bighearted satire – alive with sharp edges, immense warmth, and a cast...

From Robert Seethaler, the author of the Man Booker International shortlisted A Whole Life, comes a deeply moving story of...

The charming and hilarious tonic we’ve all been waiting for. The Times bestseller, Yours Cheerfully, is the uplifting sequel to...