It was always the same nightmare. Cross saw them lined up in rows, in stretches of city wasteland - those derelict spaces once...

We all dream, and 98 per cent of us can recall our dreams the next morning. Even in today's modern age, it is human nature to...

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,...

The international bestseller, longlisted for the Dublin Literary Award 2021. Fernando Aramburu's Homeland is an epic and...

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

From the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Last Act of Love, Cathy Rentzenbrink's Dear Reader is the ultimate love letter to...

It's January 1st and Brian Bilston's life needs to change. His ex-wife has taken up with a new man, a motivational speaker and...

From revolution on Twitter to romance on Tinder, we live in a world constructed of code - and coders are the ones who built it...

Blue in Chicago brings together the bittersweet short stories of the remarkable American writer Bette Howland. Hailed as a major...

As the post-World War II economic boom began to falter in the late 1960s, a new breed of economists gained influence and power....

Flooding has always threatened the rainy, wind-swept islands of the United Kingdom, but it is becoming more frequent and more...

An extraordinary epic of love, family, and war set in the Basque town of Guernica before, during, and after its destruction by...

What if society wasn't fundamentally rational, but was motivated by insanity? This thought sets Jon Ronson on an utterly...

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

When Oliver Sacks, a physician by profession, injured his leg while climbing a mountain, he found himself in an unusual position...

One of the remarkable qualities of Roberto Bolano's short stories is that they seem to tell what Bolano called 'the secret...

The first book in V. S. Naipaul's acclaimed Indian trilogy - with a preface by the author.

An Area of Darkness is V. S....

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

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

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

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...

A hatchet job isn't just a bad review, it's a total trashing. Mark Kermode is famous for them - Pirates of the Caribbean, Sex and...

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

Set against Iceland's stark landscape, Hannah Kent brings to vivid life the story of Agnes, who is charged with the brutal murder...

One woman's mercy is another's murder . . .

Ireland, 1825. Nora, bereft after the sudden death of her husband, finds herself...

The fifth novel from award-winning author Helen Oyeyemi, named one of Granta's best young British novelists. A retelling of the...

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

Following the astonishing Plainsong, Eventide is Kent Haruf's second novel set in his imaginary landscape of Holt,...

On the day that Ester Nilsson, a poet and a sensible person in a sensible relationship, meets renowned artist Hugo Rask, her...

All the longing, excitement and poignant comedy of adolescence are captured in Elizabeth Jane Howard's first novel The Beautiful...