An intense and surreal romance set against the politics of eighteenth-century Lisbon from Nobel Prize-winning author Jose...

A proofreader tinkering with a historical text opens up a world of ambiguity and invention

What happens when the facts of...

The lost novel from the author of The Second Sex

When Andree joins her school, Sylvie is immediately fascinated. Andree is...

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

'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...

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

Lucy Entwhistle and Everard Wemyss are both reeling from recent unhappiness when they meet and swiftly fall in love. Lucy is...

An illuminating portrait of a world in ferment after the First world War, and a man seeking an authentic life.

Early this...

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

This ebullient, gallivanting novel encapsulates the world vision of the Czech Republic's best-loved author in one tumbling,...

After the war is over, a radioactive cloud begins to sweep southwards on the winds, gradually poisoning everything in its path....

An adventure classic of deep-sea volcanoes, giant squid and the renegade scientist Captain Nemo.

Professor Aronnax embarks on...

'In Persuasion, Jane Austen picks up the pen to tell us who we are and what we want' Independent

Eight years ago Anne Elliot...

Discover the classic story behind the major new film

'Jane Austen's Emma is her masterpiece, mixing the sparkle of her early...

Winner of the Booker Prize

The perfect gift for Valentine’s Day
Possession is an exhilarating novel of wit and romance, at...

Andalusia is a passion - and fifteen years after his last visit Laurie Lee returned. He found a country broken by the Civil War,...

In this vivid portrait of one day in a woman's life, Clarissa Dalloway is preoccupied with the last-minute details of party she...

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

A witty, elegant novel about looking, seeing, thinking, knowing and understanding

Mr Palomar is a delightful eccentric whose...