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...

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

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...

Horace Rumpole, the irrepressible barrister fuelled by cigars, Tennyson, steak-and-kidney pud and the cooking claret from...

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

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

Filip Kobal, an Austrian teenager, is on the trail of his missing older brother Gregor, who he never knew. All he has is two of...

Lolly Willowes, so gentle and accommodating, has depths no one suspects. When she suddenly announces that she is leaving London...

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...

Gilgi knows where she's going in life: she's ambitious, focused and determined, even when her boss tries it on with her, even...

'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...