The Other End of the Line is the twenty-fourth darkly humorous Inspector Montalbano mystery from the international bestselling...

The intoxicating story of one woman's dreams of freedom in Victorian England and the man whose obsession threatens to destroy...

Set in a spectacular circus in the pleasure gardens of Victorian London, Circus of Wonders is an addictive novel about power,...

Daringly innovative when it opened in 1848, the Palm House in Kew Gardens remains one of the most beautiful glass buildings in...

It's January 1st and Brian Bilston's life needs to change. His ex-wife has taken up with a new man, a motivational speaker and...

Brutally honest and fearless, Poverty Safari is an unforgettable insight into modern Britain, and will change how you think about...

When, in 1859, George Hills is pulled from the wreck of the steamship Admella, he carries with him the uneasy memory of a fellow...

France: An Adventure History is a profoundly original and endlessly entertaining history of France, from the first century BC to...

If the dead could speak, what would they say to the living?

From their graves in the field, the oldest part of Paulstadt's...

Winner of the Booker Prize 1971 and nominated for the Golden Man Booker Prize in 2018.

A young Indian servant in Washington....

A Bend in the River is V. S. Naipaul's vivid exploration of post-colonial Africa at the time of Independence. With an...

The first step was learning to read, but if she really wants to turn her life around, Maggsie is going to have to trust other...

In the tradition of Conrad's Heart of Darkness, an immensely powerful historical novel about the first encounters between Danish...

Set in the author's native Belfast, the ten stories in Sweet Home lay bare the heartbreak and quiet tragedies that run under the...

2005. Glasgow is named Europe's Murder Capital, driven by a violent territorial gang and knife culture. In the housing schemes of...

A mother moves to Geneva with her husband and their two young children. In their newly rented apartment, she is surrounded by...

From revolution on Twitter to romance on Tinder, we live in a world constructed of code - and coders are the ones who built it...

Once upon a time in an enormous forest there lived a poor woodcutter and his wife. Around them a war wages, and hunger is a...

In the Sicily of the 1950s, still haunted by memories of Fascism and the war, the last Prince of Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi,...

Akin is a tender tale of love, loss and family, from Emma Donoghue, the international bestselling author of Room.

A retired...

In Alligator and Other Stories, Dima Alzayat captures luminously how it feels to be 'other': as a Syrian, as an Arab, as an...

From the green hilltops of Kampala, to the terraced houses of London, Neema Shah's extraordinarily moving debut Kololo Hill...

Uganda 1972

A devastating decree is issued: all Ugandan Asians must leave the country in ninety days. They must take only what...

'I can't recall us ever talking about anything other than eels and how to best catch them, down there by the stream. Actually, I...

As the 1950s draw to a close, and the Cold War escalates, the shape of Drummond Moore's life is changed beyond measure when he...

A collection of three classic books by V. S. Naipaul, with an introduction from Paul Theroux, author of The Great Railway...

Five generations of women, linked by blood and circumstance, by the secrets they share, and by a single book passed down through...

Can someone in prison be more free than someone outside? Would we ever be good if we never felt shame? What makes a person worthy...

From the acclaimed author of Ghost Wall, Sarah Moss' Summerwater is a devastating story told over twenty-four hours in the...

Set on the coast of Sicily, The Safety Net is the twenty-fifth novel in the bestselling Inspector Montalbano series by Andrea...