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...

As late summer steals in and the final pearls of barley are gleaned, a village comes under threat. A trio of outsiders - two men...

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

Louis Lasker loves his family dearly – apart from when he doesn’t. There’s a lot of history. His father’s marriages, his mother’s...

By Cormac McCarthy, the author of the critically acclaimed Border Trilogy, Child of God is a taut, chilling novel that plumbs the...

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...

Oliver Sacks' compassionate tales of people struggling to adapt to different neurological conditions have fundamentally changed...

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,...

Christie Malry is a simple man. As a young accounts clerk at a confectionery factory in London he learns the principles of...

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,...

Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, Pablo Picasso, Cole and Linda Porter, Ernest Hemingway, John Dos Passos - all are summer guests of...

A mother knows best . . . doesn't she?

Talented and determined, Devon is the centre of her ambitious parents' world, and the...

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

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...

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

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...

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

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

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

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