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The Meursault Investigation | He was the brother of ‘the Arab’ killed by the infamous Meursault, the antihero of Camus’s classic novel. Angry at the world and his own unending solitude, he resolves to...

Frankenstein in Baghdad | A satirical reimagining of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein From the rubble-strewn streets of US-occupied Baghdad, Hadi collects body parts from the dead, which he stitches togeth...

How to Teach Philosophy to Your Dog. A Quirky Introduction to the Big Questions in Philosophy | Monty was just like any other dog. A scruffy and irascible Maltese terrier, he enjoyed barking at pugs a...

A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum. Murder in Ancient Rome | In Ancient Rome all the best stories have one thing in common – murder. Romulus killed Remus to found the city, Caesar was assa...

How We Disappeared | Singapore, 1942. As Japanese troops sweep down Malaysia and into Singapore, a village is ransacked. Only three survivors remain, one of them a tiny child. In a neighbouring villag...

One for Sorrow, Two for Joy | It’s hard to plan your future when the ghosts of the past won’t leave you alone… Stella tries very hard to be good. She tries not to be sassy, to answer back, to be notic...

Gene Machine. The Race to Decipher the Secrets of the Ribosome | Everyone knows about DNA, the essence of our being, the molecule where our genes reside. But DNA by itself is useless without a machine...

Black Tudors. The Untold Story | A black porter publicly whips a white Englishman in the hall of a Gloucestershire manor house. A Moroccan woman is baptised in a London church. Henry VIII dispatches a...

Seven Empty Houses | Cross the threshold of these seven empty houses and enter the dark, destabilising world of Samanta Schweblin. Here, homes are not a place of safety. A person is missing, or a trut...

Quinn | From an award-winning Scottish poet, an unforgettable novel about memory and radical forgiveness How far would you go to overcome the limits of your own forgiveness? Quinn is serving a life se...

Things They Lost | They had not lost anyone that year, or the ones they had lost were not worth remembering… Set in the fictional Kenyan town of Mapeli, Things They Lost tells the story of four genera...

Mouthful of Birds | The crunch of a bird’s wing. A cloud of butterflies, so beautiful it smothers. A crimson flash of blood across an artist’s canvas. Spine-tingling and unexpected, unearthly and stra...

Salmon. A Fish, the Earth, and the History of a Common Fate | If we can save the salmon, we can save the world. Over the centuries, salmon have been a vital resource, a dietary staple and an irresisti...

The White Boy Shuffle | White Boy Shuffle is Man Booker-winner Paul Beatty’s electrifying debut novel about teenage-surf-bum Gunnar Kaufman who is forced to wise up when his mother moves from suburban...

The Truth About Fat | Who or what is to blame for us getting fat and ill in increasing numbers? Sugar or fat? Gut microbes or genes? Laziness or poverty? Whatever it is, it's placing a devastating bur...

Animal Vegetable Criminal. When Nature Breaks the Law | What’s to be done about a drunken elephant? A monkey caught mugging passers-by? A trespassing squirrel? Follow Mary Roach as she investigates la...

Preparation for the Next Life | Set in the underbelly of New York, Preparation for the Next Life exposes an America as seen from the fringes of society and, in devastating detail, destroys the myth of...

The Mysterious Correspondent. New Stories | New writing from the literary master Throughout Proust’s life, nine of his short stories remained unseen – the writer never even spoke of them. Perhaps he w...

The Rabbit Hutch | Vacca Vale, Indiana: recently voted number 1 on Newsweek‘s list of dying American cities. According to the developers, however, it’s a city with a whole history of reinvention, one ...

Magisteria. The Entangled Histories of Science & Religion | Most things you 'know' about science and religion are myths or half-truths that grew up in the last years of the nineteenth century and rema...

The Invisible Universe. Why There’s More to Reality than Meets the Eye | From the discovery of entirely new kinds of galaxies to a window into cosmic 'prehistory', Bothwell shows us the Universe as we...

The Psychopath Whisperer. Inside the Minds of Those Without a Conscience | Are psychopaths 'evil' and untreatable, or do they suffer from a form of mental illness comparable to schizophrenia? Do they ...

Fight Like a Girl | An incendiary debut taking the world by storm, Fight Like A Girl is an essential manifesto for feminists new, old and soon-to-be. Online sensation and fearless feminist heroine, Cl...

Packing for Mars. The Curious Science of Life in Space | What happens to you when you can’t walk for a year? When you can’t have sex? Or smell flowers? What happens if you vomit in your helmet during ...

Slumberland | After creating the perfect beat, DJ Darky goes in search of Charles Stone, aka the Schwa, a little known avant-garde jazzman, to play over his sonic masterpiece. His quest brings him to ...

Grunt. The Curious Science of Humans at War | War. Mention it and most of us think of history, of conflicts on foreign soil, of heroism and compromise, of strategy and weapons. But there’s a whole oth...

The New Wilderness | Bea's daughter, Agnes, is slowly wasting away, her lungs ravaged by the smog and pollution of the overpopulated metropolis they call home. The only alternative is to build a life ...

The Boy Who Belonged to the Sea | An award-winning story of friendship and the power of imagination, from the celebrated author of The Peculiar Life of a Lonely Postman The loss of a parent brought th...

A History of the World in 21 Women. A Personal Selection | The history of the world is the history of great women. Marie Curie discovered radium and revolutionised medical science. Empress Cixi transf...

The Peculiar Life of a Lonely Postman | For readers of The Hen Who Dreamed She Could Fly and The Guest Cat comes this passionate, bittersweet love story that will move readers old and young Secretly s...

Fever Dream | A young woman named Amanda lies dying in a remote Argentinian hospital. A boy named David sits beside her. She’s not his mother. He’s not her child. At David’s ever more insistent prompt...

A Thing of Beauty. Travels in Mythical and Modern Greece | What do the Greek myths mean to us today? It's now a golden age for these tales - they crop up in novels, films and popular culture. But what...

The Wild Laughter | It’s 2008, and the Celtic Tiger has left devastation in its wake. Brothers Hart and Cormac Black are waking up to a very different Ireland – one that widens the chasm between them ...

Shardik | This brilliantly inventive fantasy epic by the award-winning author of Watership Down immerses the reader in a medieval world complete with created languages, detailed maps and elaborate tra...

The Government Inspector | The mayor and local officials of a small provincial town in Russia have got it made: corruption is rife and they have all the power. Yet, when they learn that an undercover ...

An American Marriage | Newlyweds Celestial and Roy are the embodiment of the American Dream. He is a young executive, and she is an artist on the brink of an exciting career. Until one day they are ri...

Sea of Eden | The epic literary adventure that has transfixed readers and critics alike in Spain Almost four hundred passengers are on board the Boeing 747 en route from Los Angeles to Singapore. Only...

The Unit | Ninni Holmqvist’s eerie dystopian novel envisions a society in the not-so-distant future where men and women deemed economically worthless are sent to a retirement community called the Unit...

Silver Sparrow | 'My father, James Witherspoon, is a bigamist.' Secrets Dana and Chaurisse are sisters, bound together by the life-changing secret of their father's double life. Lies Only one of them ...

Heart. A History | Jauhar weaves his own personal and family story into his history of the heart...very effectively... This gives a certain dramatic tension to the book, as it tells the fascinating an...

A Questionable Shape | In the wake of an infection that has left Baton Rouge unsettled and roiling with the 'undead', three young friends - Mazoch, Vermaelen and Rachel - band together to search for M...

His Only Wife | In one of the most talked about and hilarious debuts of the year, Afi Tekple, a bright young seamstress from a small town in Ghana, is convinced by her family to marry a man she has ne...

Tuff | Winston 'Tuffy' Foshay is a 19-year-old, 24-stone 'player-king' to a hapless gang in Spanish Harlem, a denizen who breaks jaws and shoots dogs. His best friend is a disabled Muslim man who want...

The Weight of Loss | It starts with a single black hair, growing thick and immovable from her spine. Marianne is grieving. Desperately trying to hold down some semblance of a normal life, she forces h...

The Book of Night Women | Described by the New York Times as “both beautifully written and devastating”, The Book of Night Women is a startling, hard-edged dissection of slavery – a tour de force of v...

The Mountains Sing | One family, two generations of women and a war that will change their lives forever Ha Noi, 1972. Huong and her grandmother, Tr?n Di?u Lan, cling to one another in their improvise...

Man V. Nature | Perfectly pitched and gorgeously penned, this astonishingly bold collection of stories explores the boundary between the wild and the civilized. Pitting human beings against the extrem...

Survival of the Friendliest. Understanding Our Origins and Rediscovering Our Common Humanity | What is the secret to humanity’s evolutionary success? Could it be our strength, our intellect… or someth...

Don’t Think, Dear. On Loving and Leaving Ballet | 'Don't think, dear' said Balanchine. 'Just do.' For centuries, being a ballerina has been synonymous with being beautiful, thin, obedient and feminine...

By Gaslight | London 1885 - A woman's body is discovered on Edgware Road. Ten miles away, her head is pulled from the dark muddy waters of the Thames. For two men, this event will push them to the ver...

Little Eyes | They’re not pets. Not ghosts or robots. These are kentukis, and they are in your home. You can trust them. They care about you… They’ve infiltrated apartments in Hong Kong, shops in Vanc...

Gulp. Travels Around the Gut | For fans of Gut by Giulia Enders Eating is the most pleasurable, gross, necessary, unspeakable biological process we undertake. But very few of us realise what strange w...

Something Deeply Hidden. Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime | Quantum physics is not mystifying. The implications are mind-bending, and not yet fully understood, but this revolutionary theo...

Sweet Bean Paste | A charming tale of friendship, love and loneliness in contemporary Japan Sentaro has failed. He has a criminal record, drinks too much, and his dream of becoming a writer is just a ...

Beasts of a Little Land | As the Korean independence movement gathers pace, two children meet on the streets of Seoul. Fate will bind them through decades of love and war. They just don’t know it yet....

Blurb Your Enthusiasm. A Cracking Compendium of Book Blurbs, Writing Tips, Literary Folklore | A joyful celebration of books - the perfect gift for bibliophiles, word lovers and anyone who's ever wond...

Laurus | WINNER OF THE BIG BOOK AWARD, THE YASNAYA POLYANA AWARD & THE READ RUSSIA AWARD A NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR 2016* Fifteenth-century Russia It is a time of plague and pestilence, and a yo...

A History of Britain in 21 Women. A Personal Selection | They were famous queens, unrecognised visionaries, great artists and trailblazing politicians. They all pushed back boundaries and revolutionis...

Three Apples Fell from the Sky | The Russian bestseller about love and second chances, brimming with warmth and humour In the tiny village of Maran nestled high in the Armenian mountains, a place wher...

How to Win a Nobel Prize | A time-travelling adventure with interactive experiments for budding young scientists, by Nobel Prize winning Barry Marshall Mary has always wanted to win a Nobel Prize and ...