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,...

It is 4am when the ambulance comes to take the man's wife away - although no-one has called it, and there is nothing wrong with...

'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....

A perfectly plotted, cosy detective story from Seicho Matsumoto, Japan's master of mystery

'It was a puzzle with no solution....

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

This is the ideal introduction to one of the most significant and radical philosophers of the past century. It includes detailed...

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

A moving portrait of the landscape that shaped the life of Laurie Lee, the beloved author of Cider With Rosie

'Before I left...

'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...

Depicting a young woman's life in Nazi Germany, this is the masterpiece from the author of Child of All...

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...

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

Doris is going to be a big star. Wearing a stolen fur coat and recently fired from her office job, she takes an all-night train...

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

Expelled from her...

Accra, Ghana, the 1970s. In the streets, marketplaces and crowded houses of this sprawling city, an unforgettable cast of...

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

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

Part detective novel, part love story, part psychoanalytic case study, Malina is a staggering portrait of a writer trying to tell...