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...

From the acclaimed author of the Copenhagen Trilogy, a searing, haunting novel of a woman on the edge, portrayed with all the...

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...

The grisly spectacle of public executions and torture of centuries ago has been replaced by the penal system in western society -...

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...

'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...