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...

Danielle Evans is widely acclaimed for her blisteringly smart voice and X-ray insights into complex human relationships. With The...

A heart-warming, heart-wrenching wartime story from The Sunday Times bestselling author of Dear Mrs Bird, AJ Pearce.

Emmy Lake...

Fans takes the reader on a journey through a constellation of fandoms, and along the way demonstrates some fundamental truths...

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...

In October 1839, Britain entered the first Opium War with China. Its brutality notwithstanding, the conflict was also threaded...

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,...

Kate is smart, successful and adept at making people feel at home: her husband Adam, her children, the guests of the hotel chain...

In a burned-out America, a father and his young son walk under a darkened sky, heading slowly for the coast. They have no idea...

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...

Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, Mother's Milk is the fourth of Edward St Aubyn's semi-autobiographical Patrick Melrose...

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...