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...

The second book in the Lonesome Dove quartet, Comanche Moon, which follows on from Dead Man's Walk, follows ranchers Gus and Call...

Taking you deep into the heart of the American West, Dead Man's Walk is the first book in Larry McMurtry's Lonesome Dove...

The final novel in Larry McMurtry's Lonesome Dove quartet, Streets of Laredo is an exhilarating and achingly poignant tale of...

Thanks to the invidious reputation of his most famous work, The Prince, Niccolo Machiavelli exerts a unique hold over the popular...

How you see a country depends on whether you are driving through it, or live in it. How you see a country depends on whether or...

A classic love story and a seminal work of Irish literature that is a testament to romance, magic and the power of true love....

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

A modern classic of Irish fiction, shortlisted for the 1992 Booker prize.

When I was a young lad twenty or thirty or forty...

An Unquiet Mind is a definitive examination of manic depression from both sides: doctor and patient, the healer and the healed. A...

Winner of Australia's prestigious Miles Franklin Award, Cloudstreet is Tim Winton's great family drama, a twenty-year story of...

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...

Today I'm five. I was four last night going to sleep in Wardrobe, but when I wake up in Bed in the dark I'm changed to five,...

Have you ever had a strange urge to jump from a tall building, or steer your car into oncoming traffic? You are not alone. In...

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

This was the night...

Lilia has been leaving people behind her entire life. Haunted by her inability to remember her early childhood, and by a...