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...

It is 1097 and a traveller arrives in the great, walled city of Antioch with a vision of a beautiful and mysterious geometric...

It all begins the night a leaflet comes through the door of unsuccessful novelist Herman Orff, promising a magical cure for...

'I have gone to look for a lion.' In a world where lions have become extinct, the map-maker Jachin-Boaz nevertheless abandons his...

On an ordinary day in a strangely unfamiliar London, Kleinzeit is fired from his advertising job and told he must go to hospital...

On 4 November 2052, Fremder Gorn is discovered drifting in deep space. He has no spacesuit, no helmet, no oxygen, but he is still...

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

Don Juan, that notorious libertine, has disappeared. Has he been dragged down to hell by demons, as rumoured - or has he escaped?...

Horace Rumpole is in a strange state that could only be described as a kind of air-conditioned purgatory: he has retired to...

The nuns who enter a medieval Norfolk convent are told to renounce the world, but the world still finds ways to trouble them,...

'It's not because you're foreigners. It's because you aren't foreign enough . . . or else that you are too foreign'

Just as...

Tayo, a young Second World War veteran of mixed ancestry, is coming home. But, returning to the Laguna Pueblo Reservation, he...

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...

The final novel in the Great Plains trilogy, this is a celebration of the American midwest with Cather's strongest heroine at its...

The second novel in the Great Plains trilogy, this is a passionate portrait of the artist as a young woman

Thea Kronberg, a...

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...

Strauss's Radetzky March, signature tune of one of Europe's most powerful regimes, presides over Joseph Roth's account of three...

A critically acclaimed tale of abuse and betrayal in America's deep South

Carolina in the 1950s, and Bone - christened Ruth...

Dark Back of Time is a compelling story of the way in which reality blurs into fiction by Javier Marias, whose highly-anticipated...

The companion novel to Mrs Bridge, this is a pitch-perfect portrayal of marriage and family life and a poignant dissection of the...

Horace Rumpole - witty, eloquent, dishevelled and cynical - is one of fiction's best-loved barristers-at-law. In these twenty...

Lew Archer, world-weary private investigator, is hired by Larry and Irene Chalmers when they suspect that their troubled son Nick...

When a chance encounter makes him a witness to the abduction of a child, private detective Lew Archer can't help but be drawn...

A Small Circus is a powerful 1931 portrayal of a German town on the brink of chaos, from bestselling author Hans Fallada (writer...

A powerful story of the shattering effects of the First World War on both a family and a country - from Hans Fallada, bestselling...

The last novel from the unsurpassed master of American detective fiction, Dashiell Hammett's The Thin Man is a genre-defining...