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...

Set in Kent Haruf's fictional landscape of Holt County, Colorado, Plainsong is a story of simple lives told with extraordinary...

Following the astonishing Plainsong, Eventide is Kent Haruf's second novel set in his imaginary landscape of Holt,...

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

Last Night is a spellbinding collection of stories about passion - by turns fiery and subdued, destructive and redemptive,...

Beautiful, intoxicating and filled with heart-pounding suspense, Jessie Burton's historical novel set in Amsterdam, The...

Two weeks before his death, Oliver Sacks outlined the contents of The River of Consciousness, the last book he would...

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...

All the longing, excitement and poignant comedy of adolescence are captured in Elizabeth Jane Howard's first novel The Beautiful...

Originally published in 1956, The Long View is Elizabeth Jane Howard's uncannily authentic portrait of one marriage and one...

From the bestselling author of The Cazalet Chronicles, The Sea Change is a witty yet heart-rending story of a marriage in...

From the lauded, bestselling author of The Cazalet Chronicles, After Julius is Elizabeth Jane Howard's funny yet touching story...

From the lauded, bestselling author of the Cazalet Chronicles, Something in Disguise paints a candid picture of a family in...

From the bestselling author of the Cazalet Chronicles comes Elizabeth Jane Howard's Falling.

Harry Kent is a sensitive man in...

From the bestselling author of the Cazalet Chronicles comes Elizabeth Jane Howard's Love All.

The late 1960s. For Persephone...

This is Larry McMurtry's ballad in prose: his heartfelt tribute to a bygone era of the American West.

Larry McMurtry has done...

So this is happiness, she thought. Or this, at least, is what adds up to happiness. The prospect of never running after men and...

Told with Clive James's unassailable sense of humour and self-effacing charm, Unreliable Memoirs is a hilarious and touching...

The second novel in the dazzling Last Hundred Years trilogy, Early Warning follows the Langdon family from the 50s, through to...

The third novel in the dazzling Last Hundred Years Trilogy from the winner of the Pulitzer Prize Jane Smiley.

1987. A visit...

This is London in the eyes of its beggars, bankers, coppers, gangsters, carers, witch-doctors and sex workers.

This is London...

A classic work of Irish literature, this award-winning novel is an exploration of love, art and identity.

This was the night...