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

'This is the record of a box man'. Anonymous and alone, the box man peeps out of his cut-out eyeholes and watches the world from...

'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...

'I don't think I'm that unusual, and I don't think I'm crazy either'

Bombed-out Cologne after the war is a strange place to...

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...

When sensible, sophisticated Flora Poste is orphaned at nineteen, she decides her only choice is to descend upon relatives in...

'Tiepolo: the last breath of happiness in Europe'

The eighteenth-century Venetian painter Giambattista Tiepolo spent his life...

Horace Rumpole - dishevelled barrister at law, drinker of claret and smoker of cigars, inveterate quoter of Wordsworth and...

'The piteousness of his little soft shroud of hair falling down his brow and swept aside by the hand over blue serious...

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

Mattis doesn't understand much about the world. He doesn't understand why others call him simple. Or why his sister Hege, who has...

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

Expelled from her...

The exquisite last novel from Nobel Prize-winning author Yasunari Kawabata

Ineko has lost the ability to see things. At first...

'Football is a pleasure that hurts'

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

The Second World War. Poland. Our narrator has no intention of being a hero. He plans to survive this war, whatever it...

A dark love story set in wartime Rome from the author of In Love and Your Face for the World to See

Rome, 1944. Robert is a...

Miami, Summer 1968. The Vietnam War is raging; Martin Luther King, Jr., and Bobby Kennedy have just been assassinated. The...

October 21, 1967, Washington, D.C. 20,000 to 200,000 protesters are marching to end the war in Vietnam, while helicopters hover...

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

'Where there is great love there are always miracles'

Two French priests have been sent to New Mexico to reawaken the faith....

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...

Aldo Cassidy is a cautious man. He has a pleasant family, drives a safe, expensive car and wears luxurious clothes. But his...

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...

As an interpreter of African languages, Bruno Salvador is much in demand. He makes it a principle to remain neutral - no matter...

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

It was all...

'Yes, bastard, you're the one I love'

A pair of lovers - a young female journalist and an older man who owns an isolated farm...

'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...