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

The play is a parable inspired by the Chinese play Chalk Circle. Written at the close of World War II, the story is set in the...

Arthur Miller's penultimate play, Resurrection Blues, is a darkly comic satirical allegory that poses the question: What would...

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

Self-consciously staging itself in the psychotherapy sessions of a disturbed young man, Peter Shaffer's Equus is a shocking...

A classic of postwar literature, a small masterpiece of humour, humanity and heroism from one of the best Czech writers

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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 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...

My Happy Days in Hell (1962) is Gyorgy Faludy's grimly beautiful autobiography of his battle to survive tyranny and oppression....

The concluding part in Javier Marias' spy trilogy masterwork

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

The bestselling epic novel of family, treachery, rivalry, religious fervour and the turbulent fate of a royal African...

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...

A brilliant new translation of Simenon's critically acclaimed masterpiece.

'And always the dirty snow, the heaps of snow that...

'For me life hasn't got dreams, success and all that damn nonsense. Life is full of shadows: some of them soft and others conceal...

'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 night's over for Ulysses Galen. It started going bad for the big Greek when a knife was drawn, then there was an axe, then he...

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

Sinister rumours link clandestine Arab...

Alternate history meets Cold War thriller in a vintage Len Deighton escapade

11 June, 1940 - where is Winston Churchill?

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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...

Three con artists are on the make, and making millions. There's Silas, the leader, slick and self-assured; Liz, his glamorous...

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...

1963 Berlin is dark and dangerous. The anonymous hero of The IPCRESS File has been sent to help arrange the defection - in an...

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...