The gripping true story of one man's ten year expedition from a village in West Africa to the Arctic Circle

Scorching heat,...

'For me life hasn't got dreams, success and all that damn nonsense. Life is full of shadows: some of them soft and others conceal...

Arguing that the slave trade was at the heart of Britain's economic progress, Eric Williams's landmark 1944 study revealed the...

Asylums presents four interlinked essays that explore life in the 'total institutions': the closed systems of prisons, boarding...

Evelyn Waugh's first book: a portrait of one of the greatest artists of the nienteenth century, from one of the greatest writers...

Beautiful Star is a 1962 tale of family, love, nuclear war and UFOs, and was considered by Mishima to be one of his very best...

'When all else fails, don't take it in silence: scream like hell, scream like Jericho was tumbling down, serenaded by a brace of...

They nicknamed Adah 'the Igbo tigress' at school in Nigeria, she was so fearless. Now she has moved to London to join her...

Illuminating reflections on painting and drawing from one of the most revered artists of the twentieth century

'Thank God for...

The night's over for Ulysses Galen. It started going bad for the big Greek when a knife was drawn, then there was an axe, then he...

A preacher called Deke O'Malley's been selling false hope: the promise of a glorious new life in Africa for just $1,000 a family....

Jackson's woman has found him a foolproof way to make money - a technique for turning ten dollar bills into hundreds. But when...

A private meeting, chance encounters and a mysterious tour of Lisbon haunt this moving homage to Tabucchi's adopted city

In...

In the sweltering summer of 1938, with Lisbon in the grip of Portugal's dictatorship of Antonio Salazar, a journalist is coming...

The short story collection that launched Tabucchi to fame, reflecting on the uncertainties, memories, mistakes and mysteries of...

Nancy Mitford's brilliantly witty, irreverent stories of the upper classes in pre-war London and Paris conjure up a world of...

Spare, taut and told with flashes of pitch-black humour, the short stories of Norwegian master Kjell Askildsen capture all the...

The Cold War plays out in the shadow of the Second World War as old loyalties collide

Sinister rumours link clandestine Arab...

Alternate history meets Cold War thriller in a vintage Len Deighton escapade

11 June, 1940 - where is Winston Churchill?

A...

A sweeping portrait of one Berlin family, spanning generations and two world wars
Peter and Paul, the two sons of German...

Downtown LA. Streetwise lawyer Mickey Murphy has a shabby office in a low-rent district, an ex who bleeds him dry and the kind of...

A Russian scientist is defecting to the West, in order to realize his dreams of contacting extra-terrestrial life among the...

It is 1941 and Germany has won the war. Britain is occupied, Churchill executed and the King imprisoned in the Tower of London....

After six weeks in a nuclear submarine gathering computer data on Soviet activity, the mysterious, bespectacled spy known as...

Of all the mysteries Bernard Samson has encountered, the greatest is his wife Fiona. Dedicated agent of the Service and a woman...

Bernard Samson is a spy on the run. But in the murky streets of Berlin, he knows where to hide. Wanted for an act of treachery he...

Millions of pounds have gone missing, and the Department have sent agent Bernard Samson to Washington to track them down. But...

Three con artists are on the make, and making millions. There's Silas, the leader, slick and self-assured; Liz, his glamorous...

World-weary agent Bernard Samson is losing control of his personal and professional life. Sent to Mexico to aid the defection of...

Deep in the South American jungle the MAMista Marxist revolutionaries are fighting a hopeless, protracted war against a dictator...