Howard York - self-made man and founder of London's extraordinary Hotel Alpha - is one of those people who makes you feel that...

I know what my husband would say: that I have too much time on my hands; that I need to keep myself busy. That I need to take my...

When Mark Brian, a young priest, is sent to the Indian village of Kingcome in British Columbia, he finds himself in an...

In the sixth arrondissement, thirteen-year-old Paul is adrift in a sea of wealth, pretence and an obsession with status....

This is a memoir as wry, funny, moving and vivid as its inimitable subject himself. A joy for both lifelong fans and for a whole...

Clay is a successful screenwriter, middle-aged and disaffected; he's in LA to cast his new movie. However, this trip is anything...

Winner of the Booker Prize 1971 and nominated for the Golden Man Booker Prize in 2018.

A young Indian servant in Washington....

One September morning in 2008, an investment banker approaching forty, his career in collapse and his marriage unravelling,...

Before the real city could be seen it had to be imagined, the way rumours and tall tales were a kind of charting.

It is the...

A collection of three classic books by V. S. Naipaul, with an introduction from Paul Theroux, author of The Great Railway...

Innovation brings Peter Ackroyd's History of England to a triumphant close. In it, Ackroyd takes readers from the end of the Boer...

Inspector Montalbano: The First Three Novels in the Series contains The Shape of Water, The Terracotta Dog and The Snack Thief,...

Inseparable through university, Eva, Benedict, Sylvie and Lucien graduate into an exhilarating world on the brink of the new...

Dan Boothby had been drifting for more than twenty years, without the pontoons of family, friends or a steady occupation. He was...

Ithaca, the ferociously funny and unbelievably poignant debut novel from Alan McMonagle, combines a fiercely emotional story with...

Winner of the Duff Cooper Prize, King Leopold's Ghost is the true and haunting account of Leopold's brutal regime and its lasting...

From the green hilltops of Kampala, to the terraced houses of London, Neema Shah's extraordinarily moving debut Kololo Hill...

Uganda 1972

A devastating decree is issued: all Ugandan Asians must leave the country in ninety days. They must take only what...

Jen B's been surviving at the nightmarishly brutal MLK High School just like everybody else: by following the rules. She avoids...

In the Sicily of the 1950s, still haunted by memories of Fascism and the war, the last Prince of Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi,...

Last Night is a spellbinding collection of stories about passion - by turns fiery and subdued, destructive and redemptive,...

Lilia has been leaving people behind her entire life. Haunted by her inability to remember her early childhood, and by a...

A cult classic of Italian literature published in English for the first time, with a foreword by Andre Aciman, author of Call Me...

A stunning new collection of stories from the Man Booker Prize and Whitbread Prize shortlisted author.

Many of Legoland's...

Louis Lasker loves his family dearly – apart from when he doesn’t. There’s a lot of history. His father’s marriages, his mother’s...

A mother who puts her children into a refrigerated lorry and asks 'what else could I do?' A runaway teenager who comes of age on...

A mother moves to Geneva with her husband and their two young children. In their newly rented apartment, she is surrounded by...

Against a background of wild forest, elegant castles, hidden temples and savage battlefields, the adventure that began with...

Frequently hilarious, sometimes disturbing, always entertaining, these fascinating stories of the chaos that lies on the fringe...

Each of the judges of the Elysian Prize for literature has a reason for accepting the job. For the chairman, MP Malcolm Craig, it...