Detectives Coffin Ed and Grave Digger Jones have lost two criminals. Pinky ran off - but it shouldn't be hard to track down a...

A reticent personnel manager living with his mother, Mr Newman shares the prejudices of his times and of his neighbours - and...

An opium addict is lost in the jungle; young men wage war against an empire of mutants; a handsome young pirate faces his...

Growing up in the world of the 'five towns' of industrial England, with their furnaces and chimneys, huddled red-brown streets,...

The last time anyone saw Lucia Bernardi, she was driving at top speed away from a Swiss villa - leaving the body of her murdered...

The cult classic from one of France's most stylish writers

'Don't give a damn,' says Zazie, 'what I wanted was to go in the...

The concluding part in Javier Marias' spy trilogy masterwork

Jacques Deza is back in London and once again working for the...

One man hunts obsessively for his lost identity, in this intoxicating noir masterpiece from the winner of the Nobel Prize in...

A highly entertaining and moving journal chronicling J. R. Ackerley's time in India

In the 1920s, the young J. R. Ackerley...

John Healy's The Grass Arena describes with unflinching honesty his experiences of addiction, his escape through learning to play...

'To know how to free oneself is nothing; the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom' - Andre Gide

Michel had...

'When all else fails, don't take it in silence: scream like hell, scream like Jericho was tumbling down, serenaded by a brace of...

A preacher called Deke O'Malley's been selling false hope: the promise of a glorious new life in Africa for just $1,000 a family....

The Cold War plays out in the shadow of the Second World War as old loyalties collide

Sinister rumours link clandestine Arab...

A sweeping portrait of one Berlin family, spanning generations and two world wars
Peter and Paul, the two sons of German...

A Russian scientist is defecting to the West, in order to realize his dreams of contacting extra-terrestrial life among the...

A sunken U-Boat has lain undisturbed on the Atlantic ocean floor since the Second World War - until now. Inside its rusting hull,...

When Bernard Samson is woken in the middle of the night and discovers an injured man on his doorstep, he knows it will only bring...

Summer 1987, the final years of the Cold War. Bernard Samson has been sent to East Germany to make contact with a KGB defector,...

Len Deighton's only collection of short stories explores the devastating experiences of ordinary soldiers across over two...

Ageing Hollywood star Marshall Stone is scared. Scared that the parts are drying up. Scared of being forgotten. So when he hears...

With the Cold War drawing to a close in the East, Bernard Samson is still haunted by the events that have turned his life upside...

Texan billionaire General Midwinter will stop at nothing to bring down the USSR - even if it puts the whole world at risk. The...

Moses thinks he's got it made. Originally a poor Caribbean immigrant, he is now the proud landlord of a ramshackle house in...

The Reverend Timothy Fortune, ex-clerk of the Hornsey branch of Lloyds Bank, has found his vocation: to convert the inhabitants...

Sitting in his cramped basement room in Brixton, Battersby dreams of money, women, a T-bone steak - and a place to call his own....

'She understands Karma, she says: "What I do, I reap"'

Her name means sadness, yet Tristessa, a prostitute and morphine...

An illegal Muslim immigrant arrives in Hamburg with a traumatic past and the key to a fortune held in a private bank. He says his...

'I felt the powerful strength of my family overrunning me like a heavy rush of water'

For Andre, a young man growing up on a...

Darkly funny, searingly honest short stories from Hans Fallada, author of bestselling Alone in Berlin

In these stories,...