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No-one is watching...

A powerful retelling of Oedipus and Antigone from the perspectives of the women the myths overlooked, from Natalie Haynes, the...

If we're talking agoraphobia, we're talking books. I slip between their covers, lose myself in the turn of one page, re-discover...

For billions of years, Earth was an inhospitably alien place - covered with churning seas, slowly crafting its landscape by way...

This book tells the story of our greatest invention. Or, it almost does. Almost, because while the story has a beginning - in...

Something gleeful and malevolent is moving in Lia's body, learning her life from the inside out. A shape-shifter. A disaster...

From the widely acclaimed author of American War, Omar El Akkad, a beautifully written, unrelentingly dramatic and profoundly...

Amelia is no stranger to sex and death. Her job in her family's funeral parlour, doing make-up on the dead, might be unusual, but...

Claire is only seven years old when her college-age sister Alison vanishes from the luxury resort on the Caribbean island of...

Celebrating Fifty Years of Picador Books

Scared is what you're feeling. Brave is what you're doing.

Jack lives with his Ma...

Celebrating Fifty Years of Picador Books

If a man has lost a leg or an eye, he knows he has lost a leg or an eye; but if he...

Meet Drew Lord Haig, called upon to sing the obscure hit from his youth at a paramilitary event. Or Max, who recalls an eventful...

At dusk on a November evening in 2020 a woman slips out of her garden gate and turns up the hill. Kate is in the middle of a...

George Orwell's 1984 has become a defining narrative of the modern world. Its cultural influence can be observed in some of the...

1941. In the chaos of wartime Marseille, American engineer and occult disciple Jack Parsons stumbles onto a clandestine anti-Nazi...

Leonard Lessing once cast a spell on stage, hypnotizing crowds with his improvised jazz, easy in his music, at home in the...

In this spirited volume, Oliver Sacks examines the many passions of his own life - both as a doctor engaged with the central...

Take a Valium. Have a party. Go on a demo. Shoot a soldier. Make a bang. Bed a friend. That's your problem-solving system . . ....

The multi-million copy bestseller and Book of the Year at The National Book Awards.

'Painfully funny. The pain and the...

Marianne Power was stuck in a rut. Then one day she wondered: could self-help books help her find the elusive perfect life?
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As the post-World War II economic boom began to falter in the late 1960s, a new breed of economists gained influence and power....

Patrick Melrose. Volume 2 contains the final two novels in Edward St Aubyn's BAFTA award-winning Emmy nominated...

From the internationally bestselling author of The Miniaturist comes a captivating and brilliantly realized story of two young...

The Year of the Runaways tells of the bold dreams and daily struggles of an unlikely family thrown together by...

The multi-award-winning China Mieville has been called 'the equal of David Mitchell or Zadie Smith' (Scotland on Sunday), a...

I know what my husband would say: that I have too much time on my hands; that I need to keep myself busy. That I need to take my...