'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...

Retired teacher Edgar Hopkins lives for the thrill of winning poultry prizes. But his narrow world is shattered when he learns...

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...

A brilliant, bruising depiction of the dark side of 1950s Hollywood, from the author of In Love.

At a Hollywood party, a...

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

As Stephen Rojack, a decorated war hero and former congressman who murders his wife in a fashionable New York City high-rise,...

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

The first novel in the Great Plains trilogy, this is an ode to the American Midwest and the immigrants who transformed it

To...

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...

Koko won't do what is expected of her. Defying her family's wishes, she has brought up her eleven-year-old daughter alone in her...

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...

'Here, even if I had a thousand dollar in my pocket, I know of no sight which could arouse in me the feeling of ecstasy'
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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...

Gordon Comstock loathes dull, middle-class respectability and worship of money. He gives up a 'good job' in advertising to work...

A novel of the friendships and woes of two couples, which tells the story of their lives in lyrical, evocative prose by one of...

Arthur Koestler's extraordinary history of humanity's changing vision of the universe

In this masterly synthesis, Arthur...

'The island itself. Its throbbing heat as if in a belljar under the sun, the scorpion in his son's bed, the deafening sound of...

The Haunted Life is the coming-of-age story of Peter Martin, a college track star determined to idle away what he knows will be...

Nobel-prize winner Francois Mauriac's masterpiece is Therese Desqueyroux, the story of a complex woman trapped by provincial...

These five rich, witty and magical stories from the author of Out of Africa include one of her most well-known tales, 'Babette's...

'There they stood, bumbling into lines with a bit of difficulty: Mother Finland's chosen sacrifice to world history'

Unknown...

A searing, unflinchingly realist novel about life at war, written during the First World War

'Men are made to be husbands,...