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...

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...

New Year's Eve 1975, Mexico City. Two hunted men leave town in a hurry, on the desert-bound trail of a vanished poet.

Spanning...

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

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

Set in a small, remote community in rural Tennessee in the years between the two world wars, The Orchard Keeper is an early...

Jack is five. He lives with his Ma. They live in a single, locked room. They don't have the key.

Jack and Ma are...

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...

Falling Man begins on September 11, in the smoke and ash of the burning towers.

In the days and the years following, we trace...

Eric Packer is a twenty-eight-year-old multi-billionaire asset manager. We join him on what will become a particularly eventful...

Always fascinated by islands, Oliver Sacks is drawn to the Pacific by reports of the tiny atoll of Pingelap, with its isolated...

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,...

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

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...

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

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

Some Hope is the third of Edward St Aubyn's semi-autobiographical series, The Patrick Melrose Novels, filmed 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...

Have you ever seen something that wasn't really there? Heard someone call your name in an empty house? Sensed someone following...

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...