'A brilliant and seemingly effortless accomplishment...steady uninterrupted delight' Sunday Telegraph

Faculty wife Emily...

'Delightful... Her characters are, as always, wonderfully imperfect' New York Review of Books

Alan has changed because he's...

'Marvellous entertainment' Sunday Times

Just married and newly arrived in Los Angeles are Paul and Katherine Cattleman. Paul...

Brian and Erica Tate appear to have every advantage in life: academic careers, two children, nice friends and money. But when...

'If you're coming to Lurie for the first time, you must begin with the Pulitzer Prize-winning Foreign Affairs' Guardian...

Miserly and mysterious, the richest man in the Five Towns lives simply, ruling his household with an iron fist and a cruel...

On the Black Hill is an elegantly written tale of identical twin brothers who grow up on a farm in rural Wales and never leave...

Bruce Chatwin sets off on a journey through South America in this wistful classic travel book

With its unique, roving...

Beecher Stowe's vivid descriptions uncover the harrowing situations faced by slaves in Civil War America.

When a Kentucky...

Set in 1900s, this is a lushly descriptive and highly autobiographical portrayal of a young man growing up in class-divided...

A brilliant and heart-rending evocation of destructive passion.

When John Dowell and his wife befriend Edward and Leonora...

Jean Paget is just twenty years old and working in Malaya when the Japanese invasion begins.

When she is captured she joins a...

Trollope's magnificent and prescient satire about a dishonest financier who buys his way into a corrupt society, and throws it...

Discover Charles Darwin's most important ideas...

When the eminent naturalist Charles Darwin returned from South America on...

A brilliant story of intrigue, retribution, revenge and redemption.

Imprisoned for a crime he didn't commit, Edmond Dantes...

First published in 1962, a year after Revolutionary Road, this sublime collection of stories seems even more powerful today. Out...

When inspiration leads Theodore Gumbril to design a type of pneumatic trouser cushion to ease the discomfort of sedentary life,...

What begins as the record of W. G. Sebald’s own journey on foot through coastal East Anglia, from Lowestoft to Bungay, becomes...

When sixteen-year-old Portia is orphaned she is plunged into the sophisticated and politely treacherous world of her wealthy...

'Superb... These thirty-two stories inhabit the Technicolor vernaculars of taxi drivers, barbers, paper pushers and society...

Nella, daughter of millionaire Theodore Racksole, orders a dinner of steak and beer at the exclusive Grand Babylon Hotel in...

No longer a boy, not quite a man, Edwin Clayhanger stands on a canal bridge on his last day of school, and surveys the valley of...

From the infamous Glasgow slum, the Gorbals, Tam Clay chronicles a week in his life, in the last days before the demolishers move...

As a child, Luke’s mother often tells him the story of the Dumb House, an experiment on newborn babies raised in silence,...

On a property in New South Wales, a man named Holland lives with his daughter, Ellen. As years pass and Ellen grows into a...

The first novel from the great, incomparable Thomas Pynchon.

The quest for V. sweeps us through sixty years and a panorama of...

An exhilarating satire of Eighties excess that captures the effervescent spirit of New York, from one of the greatest writers of...

In this extraordinary novel, Stingo, an inexperienced twenty-two year old Southerner, takes us back to the summer of 1947 and a...

Kalevala is the poetic name for Finland: ‘the land of heroes’. Here you’ll find the cultural essence of a young country but an...

'A masterpiece' The Times

After the tragic deaths of their parents, Magdalen and Norah discover the devastating news that they...