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...

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

The number one Sunday Times bestseller in a new festive package, Twas the Nightshift Before Christmas is the perfect stocking...

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...

Clay is a successful screenwriter, middle-aged and disaffected; he's in LA to cast his new movie. However, this trip is anything...

Each of the judges of the Elysian Prize for literature has a reason for accepting the job. For the chairman, MP Malcolm Craig, it...

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...

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...

Telling the story of the week following a fateful train journey, One Moment, One Morning by Sarah Rayner is a stunning novel...

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...

Graham Robb's The Ancient Paths will change the way you see European civilization.

Inspired by a chance discovery, Robb became...

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...