In AD 843, the three surviving grandsons of the great Emperor Charlemagne met at Verdun. After years of bitter squabbles over who...

From the bestselling author of the Cazalet Chronicles comes Elizabeth Jane Howard's Love All.

The late 1960s. For Persephone...

Soon to be a new HBO Series from J.J. Abrams, Misha Green and Jordan Peele (Director of Get Out)

Chicago, 1954. When his...

Kate is smart, successful and adept at making people feel at home: her husband Adam, her children, the guests of the hotel chain...

He became a bestselling novelist while still in college, immediately famous and wealthy. He watched his insufferable father...

Edie is just trying to survive. She’s messing up in her dead-end admin job in her all-white office, is sleeping with all the...

Thanks to the invidious reputation of his most famous work, The Prince, Niccolo Machiavelli exerts a unique hold over the popular...

The first step was learning to read, but if she really wants to turn her life around, Maggsie is going to have to trust other...

Twenty-year-old Lilja is in love.

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

He is also a serial cheater,...

Bill Gray, a famous, reclusive novelist, emerges from his isolation when he becomes the key figure in an event staged to force...

Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award, Mao II is the work of an ingenious writer at the height of his powers.

Bill Gray, a famous,...

Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies is a story of coming-of-age at the end of a life. Utterly heart-breaking yet darkly funny, Maddie...

Something gleeful and malevolent is moving in Lia's body, learning her life from the inside out. A shape-shifter. A disaster...

Tell me what you can't forget,and I'll tell you who you are...

Cat is fifteen and the lonely new girl in town. Until she meets...

Miguel Street, V. S. Naipaul's first written work of fiction, is set in a derelict corner of Port of Spain, Trinidad, during...

According to the great diarist, John Evelyn, Charles II was 'addicted to women', and throughout his long reign a great many...

Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, Mother's Milk is the fourth of Edward St Aubyn's semi-autobiographical Patrick Melrose...

Mr Fox, by award-winning author Helen Oyeyemi, is an beautiful and immersive exploration of the labyrinthine world of...

A heart-warming, heart-wrenching wartime story from The Sunday Times bestselling author of Dear Mrs Bird, AJ Pearce.

Emmy Lake...

In the dazzling summer of 1926, Ernest Hemingway and his wife Hadley travel from their home in Paris to a villa in the south of...

In this innovative and compelling work of environmental history, Philipp Blom chronicles the great climate crisis of the 1600s, a...

Winner of the Betty Trask Award, Never Mind is the first in Edward St Aubyn's semi-autobiographical Patrick Melrose novels,...

Amelia is no stranger to sex and death.

Her job as a cosmetic mortician at her family's funeral parlour might be unusual but...

Amelia is no stranger to sex and death. Her job in her family's funeral parlour, doing make-up on the dead, might be unusual, but...

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

A college freshman, flying home, strikes up an odd, ephemeral friendship with the couple next to her on the airplane. A long-lost...

Five generations of women, linked by blood and circumstance, by the secrets they share, and by a single book passed down through...

If we're talking agoraphobia, we're talking books. I slip between their covers, lose myself in the turn of one page, re-discover...

"First you take a drink," F. Scott Fitzgerald once noted, "then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you." Fitzgerald...

When we lose someone we love, when we suffer loss or defeat, when catastrophe strikes - war, famine, pandemic - we go in search...