1930s King's Cross, London.

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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...

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The third title in the compelling Tales of the Otori - the story that began with Across the Nightingale Floor and Grass for his...

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When Billy Twillig, a genius adolescent, wins the first Nobel Prize ever to be given in mathematics, he is recruited to live and...

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...

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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...

Kit has risen to the top of her profession. She's on the brink of achieving everything she wanted, but someone is standing in her...

The international bestseller, longlisted for the Dublin Literary Award 2021. Fernando Aramburu's Homeland is an epic and...

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This Picador Classic edition of Minette Walters' The Sculptress features an introduction by Stephanie Merritt, journalist and...

In January 1895 Henry James anticipates the opening of his first play, Guy Domville, in London. The production fails, and he...

Fred Scully is determined to carve a new life for himself and his young family in Ireland. For months he has laboured alone to...

When paramedic Bruce Pike is called out to deal with another teenage adventure gone wrong, he knows better than anyone what...

Georgie Jutland is a mess. At forty, with her career in ruins, she finds herself stranded with a man she doesn't love and two...

Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. Born a poor black tobacco farmer, her cancer cells - taken without...