In AD 843, the three surviving grandsons of the great Emperor Charlemagne met at Verdun. After years of bitter squabbles over who...

Ten years ago, I began to explore the country on which I was supposed to be an authority . . .

France is a country famous for...

What if you have more intelligence than you realize? What if there is a genius inside you, just waiting to be released? And what...

In Wilding, Isabella Tree tells the story of the 'Knepp experiment', a pioneering rewilding project in West Sussex, using...

Jen B's been surviving at the nightmarishly brutal MLK High School just like everybody else: by following the rules. She avoids...

Inseparable through university, Eva, Benedict, Sylvie and Lucien graduate into an exhilarating world on the brink of the new...

A mother who puts her children into a refrigerated lorry and asks 'what else could I do?' A runaway teenager who comes of age on...

He walks into the living room and June is dead.
He centres her, checking the light. Focusing, he clicks the shutter.
He'll ask...

Before the real city could be seen it had to be imagined, the way rumours and tall tales were a kind of charting.

It is the...

When Cathy Rentzenbrink was still a teenager, her happy family was torn apart by an unthinkable tragedy. In A Manual for...

Memories make us who we are - but what if yours belonged to someone else?

David Whitehouse's The Long Forgotten is the story...

Camp Chippewa, 1962.

This is the summer that everything changes for lonely thirteen-year-old Nelson, marking the beginning of...

1930s King's Cross, London.

When aspiring film actress Estella Lamare is found dead on the cutting-room floor of a London film...

Ithaca, the ferociously funny and unbelievably poignant debut novel from Alan McMonagle, combines a fiercely emotional story with...

In Kate Murray-Browne's debut, Eleanor and Richard have stretched themselves to the limit to buy the perfect home. But the cracks...

It was around half-past eight in the morning, with summer rainclouds weighing heavy in the sky, that Simon de Montfort decided to...

Set fifteen years after the seismic events of Brilliance of the Moon, The Harsh Cry of the Heron is an elegiac and bittersweet...

Grass for His Pillow is the second novel in Lian Hearn's astonishingly beautiful series inspired by feudal Japan, Tales of the...

Eva can trace the route to Pim's farm with her eyes closed, even though she has not been to Bovenmeer for many years. There she...

During their 1985 tour, two events of hatred and stupidity forever change the lives of a band's four members. Neues Bauen, a...

The physical world is infinitely complex, yet most of us are able to find our way around it. We can walk through unfamiliar...

Alfred Busi, famed in his town for his music and songs, is mourning the recent death of his wife and quietly living out his days...

Funny, heart-warming and ultimately triumphant, The Seven Imperfect Rules of Elvira Carr by Frances Maynard is a story for anyone...

Set in LA against the backdrop of the 2008 financial crash, this is the story of Rudy Reyes (a.k.a. Glasses), a...

A startlingly beautiful story of a family's survival, The End We Start From is a haunting but hopeful dystopian vision of a...

Tell me what you can't forget,and I'll tell you who you are...

Cat is fifteen and the lonely new girl in town. Until she meets...

In 2013 Guy Stagg walked from Canterbury to Jerusalem. Though a non-believer, he began the pilgrimage after suffering several...

In the sixth arrondissement, thirteen-year-old Paul is adrift in a sea of wealth, pretence and an obsession with status....

2074. America's future is Civil War. Sarat's reality is survival. They took her father, they took her home, they told her...

Set in 2003 in the sweltering heat of Singapore, Sharlene Teo's Ponti begins as sixteen-year-olds Szu and Circe develop an...