Memories make us who we are - but what if yours belonged to someone else?

David Whitehouse's The Long Forgotten is the story...

Originally published in 1956, The Long View is Elizabeth Jane Howard's uncannily authentic portrait of one marriage and one...

Have you ever had a strange urge to jump from a tall building, or steer your car into oncoming traffic? You are not alone. In...

Celebrating Fifty Years of Picador Books

If a man has lost a leg or an eye, he knows he has lost a leg or an eye; but if he...

Award-winning author Simon Winder takes us through the legacy of one of Britain's most influential and enduring cultural figures,...

It is 1913, and Viennese high society is determined to find an appropriate way of celebrating the seventieth jubilee of the...

In The Map of Knowledge Violet Moller traces the journey taken by the ideas of three of the greatest scientists of antiquity -...

In January 1895 Henry James anticipates the opening of his first play, Guy Domville, in London. The production fails, and he...

Alfred Busi, famed in his town for his music and songs, is mourning the recent death of his wife and quietly living out his days...

Eva can trace the route to Pim's farm with her eyes closed, even though she has not been to Bovenmeer for many years. There she...

In The Mind's Eye, Oliver Sacks tells the stories of people who are able to navigate the world and communicate with others...

Beautiful, intoxicating and filled with heart-pounding suspense, Jessie Burton's historical novel set in Amsterdam, The...

George Orwell's 1984 has become a defining narrative of the modern world. Its cultural influence can be observed in some of the...

Once upon a time in an enormous forest there lived a poor woodcutter and his wife. Around them a war wages, and hunger is a...

The Sunday Times Number One Bestseller and Richard and Judy Book Club selection.

Seductive, exhilarating and suspenseful, The...

From the internationally bestselling author of The Miniaturist comes a captivating and brilliantly realized story of two young...

Don DeLillo's seventh novel is an exotic thriller. Set mostly in Greece, it concerns a mysterious 'language cult' seemingly...

Nathan Hill's brilliant debut takes the reader from the rural Midwest of the 1960s, to New York City during Occupy Wall Street;...

Danielle Evans is widely acclaimed for her blisteringly smart voice and X-ray insights into complex human relationships. With The...

Set in a small, remote community in rural Tennessee in the years between the two world wars, The Orchard Keeper is an early...

Eric Vuillard's gripping novel The Order of the Day tells the story of the pivotal meetings which took place between the European...

The Other End of the Line is the twenty-fourth darkly humorous Inspector Montalbano mystery from the international bestselling...

The Other Mrs Walker is the beguiling debut from Mary Paulson-Ellis, for fans of Kate Atkinson and Sarah Waters.

Somehow she'd...

Jeannie is nineteen when the world changes, Kip only fourteen. The sudden accident that robs them of their mother leaves them...

The Overnight Kidnapper is the twenty-third Inspector Montalbano mystery, from the international bestselling author Andrea...

The painter Terry Godden was on the brink of his first success. After a violent crisis, he finds himself outcast.

In his...

Paper Moon is the thrilling ninth instalment in the warm and witty Inspector Montalbano series, by Italian author Andrea...

The Patience of the Spider is the eighth novel in Andrea Camilleri's wryly humorous Inspector Montalbano series.

Chief...

White. Like a clean piece of paper, like uncarved ivory, all is white when the story begins.

One misty London afternoon in...

In Naples, a new kind of gang rules the streets: the 'Paranze', the 'Children's Gangs', groups of teenage boys who divide their...