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...

Born to swim thousands of miles in the ocean, the giant sea turtles are now trapped in a tank of golden-green water at London...

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

'You want to buy my death for a million pounds!' Piccadilly Circus tube station is an unlikely location for a pact with the...

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...

Sukey Bond, a sixteen-year-old orphan, is sent to work as a servant at a farm on the remote Essex Marshes. There she falls in...

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...

On a foggy winter's evening in Dieppe, after the arrival of the daily ferry from England, a railway signalman habitually...

Two people who didn't know each other and who had come together by a miracle in the great city, and who now clung desperately to...

Joseph Bloch, a once-famous goalkeeper turned construction worker, commits a random murder without thought or regret. As he...

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....

First masculine, then feminine, Orlando begins life as a young sixteenth-century nobleman, then gallops through the centuries to...

'This is an old and wicked island. An island of Phoenicians and merchants, of bloodsuckers and frauds'

Expelled from her...

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...

Captain Lannec has finally managed to buy his own ship with the financial help of his in-laws, the Pitards - and they've never...

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...

A new translation of Simenon's gripping novel about lives transformed by deceit and the destructive power of lust.

It was all...