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

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

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

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

This was the night...

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...

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...

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...