In Manhattan, just after the century's turn, three thirty-year-old friends, Danielle, Marina and Julius, are seeking their...

Originally published in 1956, The Long View is Elizabeth Jane Howard's uncannily authentic portrait of one marriage and one...

A classic love story and a seminal work of Irish literature that is a testament to romance, magic and the power of true love....

So this is happiness, she thought. Or this, at least, is what adds up to happiness. The prospect of never running after men and...

A modern classic of Irish fiction, shortlisted for the 1992 Booker prize.

When I was a young lad twenty or thirty or forty...

Winner of Australia's prestigious Miles Franklin Award, Cloudstreet is Tim Winton's great family drama, a twenty-year story of...

Told with Clive James's unassailable sense of humour and self-effacing charm, Unreliable Memoirs is a hilarious and touching...

Today I'm five. I was four last night going to sleep in Wardrobe, but when I wake up in Bed in the dark I'm changed to five,...

A classic work of Irish literature, this award-winning novel is an exploration of love, art and identity.

This was the night...

It is 1913, and Viennese high society is determined to find an appropriate way of celebrating the seventieth jubilee of the...

When Mark Brian, a young priest, is sent to the Indian village of Kingcome in British Columbia, he finds himself in an...

It was always the same nightmare. Cross saw them lined up in rows, in stretches of city wasteland - those derelict spaces once...

Ten years ago, I began to explore the country on which I was supposed to be an authority . . .

France is a country famous for...

The 1960s. Philip Dean, a footloose Yale dropout, is touring provincial France and sometimes Paris in a borrowed, once elegant...

Before the real city could be seen it had to be imagined, the way rumours and tall tales were a kind of charting.

It is the...

1930s King's Cross, London.

When aspiring film actress Estella Lamare is found dead on the cutting-room floor of a London film...

This Picador Classic edition of Minette Walters' The Sculptress features an introduction by Stephanie Merritt, journalist and...

In January 1895 Henry James anticipates the opening of his first play, Guy Domville, in London. The production fails, and he...

Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. Born a poor black tobacco farmer, her cancer cells - taken without...

Winner of the Duff Cooper Prize, King Leopold's Ghost is the true and haunting account of Leopold's brutal regime and its lasting...

Oreo has been raised by her maternal grandparents in Philadelphia. Her black mother tours with a theatrical troupe, and her...

Winner of the Booker Prize 1971 and nominated for the Golden Man Booker Prize in 2018.

A young Indian servant in Washington....

A Bend in the River is V. S. Naipaul's vivid exploration of post-colonial Africa at the time of Independence. With an...

A collection of three classic books by V. S. Naipaul, with an introduction from Paul Theroux, author of The Great Railway...

The multi-million copy number one bestseller with an introduction by Caitlin Moran.
A dazzling urban satire of modern...