Stephen Maxwell has just retired from a lifetime spent teaching history at his alma mater. As he writes the official history of...

Telling the story of the week following a fateful train journey, One Moment, One Morning by Sarah Rayner is a stunning novel...

Oreo has been raised by her maternal grandparents in Philadelphia. Her black mother tours with a theatrical troupe, and her...

This is a love story.
A story about growing old with grace.

Addie Moore and Louis Waters have been neighbours for years. Now...

By Cormac McCarthy, the author of the critically acclaimed Border Trilogy, Outer Dark is a novel at once mythic and starkly...

Daringly innovative when it opened in 1848, the Palm House in Kew Gardens remains one of the most beautiful glass buildings in...

The Greek myths are among the world's most important cultural building blocks and they have been retold many times, but rarely do...

Patrick Melrose. Volume 2 contains the final two novels in Edward St Aubyn's BAFTA award-winning Emmy nominated...

Set in Kent Haruf's fictional landscape of Holt County, Colorado, Plainsong is a story of simple lives told with extraordinary...

Set in Kent Haruf's fictional landscape of Holt County, Colorado, Plainsong is a story of simple lives told with extraordinary...

Clive James was one of our finest critics and best-loved cultural voices. He was also a prize-winning poet. Since he was first...

Set in 2003 in the sweltering heat of Singapore, Sharlene Teo's Ponti begins as sixteen-year-olds Szu and Circe develop an...

Brutally honest and fearless, Poverty Safari is an unforgettable insight into modern Britain, and will change how you think about...

So this is happiness, she thought. Or this, at least, is what adds up to happiness. The prospect of never running after men and...

When Billy Twillig, a genius adolescent, wins the first Nobel Prize ever to be given in mathematics, he is recruited to live and...

Jack is five. He lives with his Ma. They live in a single, locked room. They don't have the key.

Jack and Ma are...

Today I'm five. I was four last night going to sleep in Wardrobe, but when I wake up in Bed in the dark I'm changed to five,...

Celebrating Fifty Years of Picador Books

Scared is what you're feeling. Brave is what you're doing.

Jack lives with his Ma...

Rounding the Mark is the seventh darkly humorous novel in Andrea Camilleri's Inspector Montalbano series.

Increasingly...

Set in LA against the backdrop of the 2008 financial crash, this is the story of Rudy Reyes (a.k.a. Glasses), a...

Claire is only seven years old when her college-age sister Alison vanishes from the luxury resort on the Caribbean island of...

Roberto Saviano returns to the streets of Naples and the boy bosses who run them in Savage Kiss, the hotly anticipated follow-up...

The instant Sunday Times bestseller, Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel investigates the idea of parallel worlds and...

We are living in an age of heightened individualism. Success is a personal responsibility. Our culture tells us that to succeed...

In Sentient, Jackie Higgins assembles a menagerie of zoological creatures – from land, air, sea and all four corners of the globe...

'A tour of the lurid fringes of the tech world' - The Times
'Like Louis Theroux channelling Margaret Atwood' - New Statesman
'A...

She Has Her Mother's Laugh presents a profoundly original perspective on what we pass along from generation to generation....

Henry, Lee, Kip and Ronny grew up together in rural Wisconsin. Friends since childhood, their lives all began the same way, but...

From Jon Ronson, the Sunday Times top ten bestselling author of The Psychopath Test, this is a captivating and brilliant...

Some Hope is the third of Edward St Aubyn's semi-autobiographical series, The Patrick Melrose Novels, filmed for Sky Atlantic and...