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...

Set in a mythical, feudal, Japanese land, a world both beautiful and cruel, the intense love story of two young people takes...

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

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

The Middle Country, home of the Otori clan is ruled by a benign but weak leader while in the East, the warrior-like Tohan are...

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...

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...

London, 1941. Amid the falling bombs Emmeline Lake dreams of becoming a fearless Lady War Correspondent. Unfortunately, Emmy...

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...

Fierce and lyrical, The Shepherd's Hut by Tim Winton is a story of survival, solitude and unlikely friendship. Most of all it is...

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...

According to the great diarist, John Evelyn, Charles II was 'addicted to women', and throughout his long reign a great many...

From the bestselling, Booker Prize-winning author of The White Tiger, Aravind Adiga, comes the story of an undocumented immigrant...