'O what we ben! And what we come to...' Wandering a desolate post-apocalyptic landscape, speaking a broken-down English lost...

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

Pillar of society and stern upholder of Victorian values, god-fearing Norfolk merchant John Barnard presides over a large and...

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

A moving story of a Maori community's fight for survival, from one of New Zealand's most prominent and celebrated authors

On...

From the acclaimed author of the Copenhagen Trilogy, a searing, haunting novel of a woman on the edge, portrayed with all the...

Kerouac's last published novel, Pic is an endearing portrait of a road trip across America, seen through the eyes of one...

'Football is a pleasure that hurts'

This unashamedly emotional history of football is a homage to the romance and drama,...

The first novel in the Great Plains trilogy, this is an ode to the American Midwest and the immigrants who transformed it

To...

'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,...

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...

First published in 1949, The Golden Apples is an acutely observed, richly atmospheric portrayal of small town life in Morgana,...

Private detective Lew Archer has better things to do than take on an investigation for Alex Kincaid, a young man claiming that...

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...

Brimming with gluttony, booze and lust, Roger Micheldene is loose in America. Supposedly visiting Budweiser University to make...

A modern fable, a post-apocalyptic romance, a gothic horror story; Angela Carter's genre-defying fantasia Heroes and Villains...

'January 22nd - Robert startles me at breakfast by asking if my cold - which he has hitherto ignored - is better. I reply that it...

Asher Lev is a gifted loner, the artist who painted the sensational Brooklyn Crucifixion. Into it he poured all the anguish and...

As far as Benjamin Braddock's parents are concerned, his future is sewn up. Now he has graduated from college, he will go to Yale...

From the bard of the Beat Generation, Jack Kerouac's Maggie Cassidy is an autobiographical novel of young love, published in...

Italo Calvino's enchanting stories about the evolution of the universe, with characters that are fashioned from mathematical...

Primo Levi was one of the most astonishing voices to emerge from the twentieth century. This landmark selection of his short...

Leventhal is a natural victim; a man uncertain of himself, never free from the nagging suspicion that the other guy may be right....

Set in turn-of-the-century New York, E.L. Doctorow's Ragtime seamlessly blends fictional characters and realistic depictions of...

When John Franklin brings his plane down into Occupied France at the height of the Second World war, there are two things in his...