Tim Lott's parents, Jack and Jean, met at the Empire Snooker Hall, Ealing, in 1951, in a world that to him now seems 'as strange...

Victor, a New York cop nearing retirement, moves among furniture in the disused attic of a house marked for demolition. Cabinets,...

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

Based on the trial and execution of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, convicted of delivering information about the atomic bomb to the...

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

Ezeulu, headstrong chief priest of the god Ulu, is worshipped by the six villages of Umuaro. But he is beginning to find his...

Chris, Ikem and Beatrice are like-minded friends working under the military regime of His Excellency, the Sandhurst-educated...

The incredible memoir of Elaine Brown - the first woman leader of the Black Panthers

'Here I was, a woman, proclaiming supreme...

A Moment of War is the powerful and harrowing final book in Laurie Lee's acclaimed trilogy that began with Cider with Rosie...

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...

The explosion over Hiroshima of the first nuclear bomb reduced, in an instant, an entire city to rubble and killed over 100,000...

Hailed by George Bernard Shaw as 'useful [corrective] to the romantic conception of war', R.C. Sherriff's Journey's End is an...

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

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

'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...

Being a writer, says James Baldwin in this searing collection of essays, requires 'every ounce of stamina he can summon to...

From the bestselling author of Alone in Berlin, his acclaimed novel of a young couple trying to survive life in 1930s...

James Baldwin's electrifying first novel.

'I had to deal with what hurt me most. I had to deal with my father.'

Drawing on...

'To the red country and part of the gray country of Oklahoma, the last rains came gently, and they did not cut the scarred...

'It was inevitable: the scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of unrequited love'

Fifty-one years, nine...

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

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...