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

After shaking off an increasingly dangerous venture with his cousin, Anton Waker has spent years constructing an honest life for...

How far would you go for someone you love?

The Lola Quartet: Jack, Daniel, Sasha and Gavin, four talented musicians at the end...

That's when it hits me. I'm staring at a war zone. In South Central.

On an April night in 1992, Payasa learns that her older...

Dark, dangerous and compulsively readable, Dare Me by Megan Abbott is a gripping exploration of the teenage psyche.

There's...

Like John Williams' Stoner or Denis Johnson's Train Dreams, A Whole Life by Robert Seethaler is a tender book about finding...

In the summer of 1990, Cathy's brother Matty was knocked down by a car on the way home from a night out. It was two weeks before...

A stunning new collection of stories from the Man Booker Prize and Whitbread Prize shortlisted author.

Many of Legoland's...

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

From Andrea Camilleri, the bestselling author of the Inspector Montalbano mysteries, comes The Brewer of Preston, a hilarious...

Solomon knew that he had one advantage. A pawn ticket belonging to a dead man tucked into his top pocket - the only clue to the...

Dear Mr. M,

I'd like to start by telling you that I'm doing better now. I do so because you probably have no idea that I was...

Dan Boothby had been drifting for more than twenty years, without the pontoons of family, friends or a steady occupation. He was...

It was always the same nightmare. Cross saw them lined up in rows, in stretches of city wasteland - those derelict spaces once...

In 1987, Miri Ammerman returns to her hometown of Elizabeth, New Jersey, to attend a commemoration of the worst year of her...

Henry, Lee, Kip and Ronny grew up together in rural Wisconsin. Friends since childhood, their lives all began the same way, but...

Jeannie is nineteen when the world changes, Kip only fourteen. The sudden accident that robs them of their mother leaves them...

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...

In The Map of Knowledge Violet Moller traces the journey taken by the ideas of three of the greatest scientists of antiquity -...