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

One long last summer for Dad Lewis in his beloved town, Holt, Colorado. As old friends pass in and out to voice their farewells...

All That Is explores a life unfolding in a world on the brink of change. The life is that of Philip Bowman and we see his...

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

Set in a fictional Colorado town, Kent Haruf's Where You Once Belonged brings to life small town America and the characters that...

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

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

This is Larry McMurtry's ballad in prose: his heartfelt tribute to a bygone era of the American West.

Larry McMurtry has done...

A modern classic of Irish fiction, shortlisted for the 1992 Booker prize.

When I was a young lad twenty or thirty or forty...

Dark, dangerous and compulsively readable, Dare Me by Megan Abbott is a gripping exploration of the teenage psyche.

There's...

Like John Williams' Stoner or Denis Johnson's Train Dreams, A Whole Life by Robert Seethaler is a tender book about finding...

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

Many of Legoland's...

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

Solomon knew that he had one advantage. A pawn ticket belonging to a dead man tucked into his top pocket - the only clue to the...

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

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

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

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...

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

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

Camp Chippewa, 1962.

This is the summer that everything changes for lonely thirteen-year-old Nelson, marking the beginning of...

In Kate Murray-Browne's debut, Eleanor and Richard have stretched themselves to the limit to buy the perfect home. But the cracks...

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...

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...

Funny, heart-warming and ultimately triumphant, The Seven Imperfect Rules of Elvira Carr by Frances Maynard is a story for anyone...

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

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...

One more journey to the literary universe of Roberto Bolano, an essential voice of contemporary Latin American...

London, 1941. Amid the falling bombs Emmeline Lake dreams of becoming a fearless Lady War Correspondent. Unfortunately, Emmy...

Kit has risen to the top of her profession. She's on the brink of achieving everything she wanted, but someone is standing in her...

9st 2, cigarettes smoked in front of Mark 0 (v.g.), cigarettes smoked in secret 7, cigarettes not smoked 47 (v.g.).

Bridget's...

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