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

In Sweden, refugee children fall asleep for months and years at a time. In upstate New York, high school students develop...

From the widely acclaimed author of American War, Omar El Akkad, a beautifully written, unrelentingly dramatic and profoundly...

As the Second World War enters its final stages, millions in Germany are forced from their homes by bombing, compelled to seek...

The case is unexceptional, that is what I know. A house full of stuff left behind by a dead woman, abandoned at the last…
When...

An immensely powerful epic of colonialism, set in 18th-century Greenland, about the great forces of nature, the meeting of...

An ambitious warlord leaves his nephew for dead and seizes his lands.
A stubborn father forces his younger son to surrender his...

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...

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

At Last is the fifth and final instalment of Edward St Aubyn's semi-autobiographical Patrick Melrose novels, adapted for TV for...

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

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...

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...

Buildings are driven by human emotions and desires; hope, power, money, sex, the idea of home.

In Why We Build Rowan Moore...

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

Award-winning author Simon Winder takes us through the legacy of one of Britain's most influential and enduring cultural figures,...

The eponymous Albert is an architect by training but a supply teacher out of necessity. Feeling that he is failing at both, and...

Bad News is the second of Edward St Aubyn's semi-autobiographical Patrick Melrose novels, adapted for TV for Sky Atlantic and...

The award-winning Tigers in Red Weather is a book that simmers with tension, threat and an intoxicating cocktail of money, sex,...

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,...

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...

Young couples gather to participate in an annual 'chainsaw party', cutting down trees for firewood in anticipation of the winter....

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

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

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