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Firewall | Stopping to use a cash machine one evening, a man falls to the ground: dead. A taxi driver is brutally murdered by two teenage girls who demonstrate a complete lack of remorse. One girl esc...

Kidnapped | 'As a writer of the English language there has been no one to touch Stevenson in a hundred years...as a story-teller he is unsurpassed' George MacDonald Fraser When young David Balfour is ...

The Red House | From the author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time comes a novel about families and secrets Two families. Seven days. One house. Angela and her brother Richard have s...

They Came Like Swallows | Elizabeth Morison is an ordinary woman. Yet, to eight-year-old Bunny, his mother is the centre of his universe. To Robert, her elder son, she is someone he must protect again...

The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Stories | Edgar Allan Poe was a writer of uncommon talent; in The Murders in the Rue Morgue he created the genre of detective fiction while his genius for find...

Clever Girl | The fifth novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Free Love, The Past and Late in the Day, Clever Girl is a tale of an ordinary life made extraordinary by the gifts of Tessa Ha...

The Common Reader. Volume 1 | Discover Virginia Woolf’s informative and erudite critical essays on some of the key novelists and dramatists of the canon – from the ancient Greeks to Jane Austen and be...

The Flight From the Enchanter | A vivid, dreamlike novel about a group of people in the power of a mysterious man Annette runs away from her finishing school but learns more than she bargained for in ...

Lives of Girls and Women | The only novel from bestselling author Alice Munro, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature Catching frogs, grazing knees, singing songs to save England from Hitler - that w...

The Far Country | A young English woman leaves her ageing parents to visit friends living in the Australian outback. She falls in love, both with the country and with Carl, a doctor and Czech refugee....

Cowboys and Indians | The first novel by Joseph O'Connor, bestselling author of Star of the Sea and Shadowplay. Eddie Virago, proud owner of the last mohican haircut in Dublin, leaves his home town to...

Shylock is My Name | A re-envisaging of Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice, from the Man Booker Prize-winner and our great chronicler of Jewish life. ‘Who is this guy, Dad? What is he doing here?’ W...

The Sailor Who Fell from Grace With the Sea | 'A major work of art' Time A band of savage thirteen-year-old boys reject the adult world as illusory, hypocritical, and sentimental, and train themselves...

Quartz and Feldspar. Dartmoor - A British Landscape in Modern Times | Granite, a tough composite of quartz, feldspar and mica, is the stuff of Dartmoor, the most formidable of the five granite bosses ...

After the Banquet | An acute psychological portrait of a marriage where lofty traditions clash with appetite and ambition For years Kazu has run her fashionable restaurant with a combination of charm ...

I Married a Communist | The Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Philip Roth turns his gaze on 30s and 40s America in this magnificent successor to American Pastoral. Ira Ringold is an American roughneck who...

Swansong | In this stunningly assured, immersive and vividly atmospheric first novel from the celebrated musician, a young woman comes face-to-face with the volatile, haunted wilderness of the Scottis...

Pale Rider. Spanish Flu of 1918 & How it Changed the World | With a death toll of between 50 and 100 million people and a global reach, the Spanish flu of 1918-1920 was the greatest human disaster, no...

The Religion | Their god is War. And every god needs his Devil. The Religion Malta, 1565. The greatest war the world has ever seen is unleashed on the doomed island as the Turks do battle with the Kni...

The Bat | Discover the addictive first book in the bestselling Harry Hole series. 'A stunning opening to the series' Sunday Times Harry is out of his depth. Detective Harry Hole is meant to keep out o...

The Following Story | One morning Herman Mussert wakes up in a hotel room in Lisbon, where twenty years previously he slept with another man’s wife. Yet he is quite certain that the night before he we...

Madame de Pompadour | When Jeanne-Antoinette was nine, she was told by a fortune teller that she would one day become the mistress of the handsome young Louix XV - from that day she was groomed to bec...

Classic Ghost Stories | Do you believe in ghosts? Ghosts, spirits, spectres or spooks, we have always felt the presence of someone - or something - hovering in the darkest corners of our imaginations....

Talking to My Daughter. A Brief History of Capitalism | Begin the new year with a fresh perspective on economics, capitalism, and the society we live in. Yanis Varoufakis, world renowned economist, wr...

The Last Quarter of the Moon | 'A long-time confidante of the rain and snow, I am ninety years old. The rain and snow have weathered me, and I too have weathered them' At the end of the twentieth cent...

The Lives of Others | Calcutta, 1967. Unnoticed by his family, Supratik has become dangerously involved in extremist political activism. Compelled by an idealistic desire to change his life and the wo...

Dancing in the Dark | Fresh out of high school, Karl Ove moves to a remote fishing village to work as a teacher. He has no interest in the job itself - or in any other job for that matter, his sole ai...

Epitaphs for Underdogs | On a hot summer night, a young man sits in a dark cell in a Hungarian prison. The guards do not explain why he is here; he does not know if he will ever be released. But he is...

The Cello Suites. In Search of a Baroque Masterpiece | One autumn evening, not long after ending a stint as a pop music critic, Eric Siblin attended a recital of Johann Sebastian Bach's Cello Suites -...

Beijing Coma | Dai Wei lies in his bedroom, a prisoner in his body, after he was shot in the head at the Tiananmen Square protest ten years earlier and left in a coma. As his mother tends to him, and ...

Italian Shoes | Once a successful surgeon, Frederick Welin now lives in self-imposed exile on an island in the Swedish archipelago. Nearly twelve years have passed since he was disgraced for attemptin...

The China Governess | Agatha Christie called her 'a shining light'. Have you discovered Margery Allingham, the 'true queen' of the classic murder mystery? Timothy Kinnit needs the help of private dete...

Vertigo | What could possibly connect Stendhal's unrequited love, a series of murders by a clandestine organisation, the Great Fire of London, a story by Kafka and a closed-down pizzeria in Verona? Pa...

The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend | Sara has never left Sweden but at the age of 28 she decides it’s time. She cashes in her savings, packs a suitcase full of books and sets off for Broken Wheel, ...

Austerity | How do we choose between what is fair and just, and what our debtors demand of us? Yanis Varoufakis was put in such a dilemma in 2015 when he became the finance minister of Greece. In this...

Peter Pan | Come Away! Come Away! The Darling children are tucked up in bed when Peter Pan bursts in to their nursery. Peter and his mischievous fairy Tinker Bell entice Wendy and her brothers to fly ...

The Search Warrant | Haunted by the fate of Dora Bruder – a fifteen-year-old girl listed as missing in an old December 1941 issue of Paris Soir – Nobel Prize-winning author Patrick Modiano sets out to...

What Happened to the Corbetts | Nevil Shute wrote this prophetic novel just before the start of the Second World War. In it he describes the devastation that results from an aerial bomb attack on Sout...

The Thought Gang | France. A skint, clapped-out British philosopher meets an incompetent, freshly released, one-armed, armed robber. The Thought Gang is born as the duo blag their way from Montpellier...

Across the River and into the Trees | If you loved BBC4's Hemingway, rediscover this poignant story of the inability to capture lost youth, by the Nobel Prize-winning author of A Farewell to Arms. Ric...

Clear Light of Day | Discover the classic, Man Booker Prize shortlisted novel from one of India's finest ever writers. To the family living in the shabby, dusty house in Delhi, Tara's visit brings a s...

Sense and Sensibility | ‘I wish, as well as everybody else, to be perfectly happy; but, like everybody else, it must be in my own way’ Discover the beloved story of sisters, love and society that laun...

Lurid & Cute | 'I had this vision very clearly of a book in which I would record my total experience, and I knew how it should sound: with all the tones that no one ever admires, - the Gruesome, Tende...

Vermilion Sands | 'Ballard is amongst our finest writers of fiction' Anthony Burgess A futuristic cover - comes with 3d glasses! Welcome to Vermilion Sands, the fully automated desert-resort ready to ...

The Last September | Genteel life at 'the 'Big House' continues while the Irish War of Independence rages beyond the gates, but for how long? Read Elizabeth Bowen's accessible feminist take on the Iri...

Carpenter's Pencil | It is the summer of 1936, the early months of the agonising civil war that engulfs Spain and shakes the rest of the world. In a prison in the pilgrim city of Santiago de Compostel...

See Under Love | Momik, the only child of two survivors, is brought up in Israel by a family seeking to ignore the past. No-one will explain to him what life was like 'Over There' or what the 'Nazi Be...

Strangers on a Train | "Hey! Cheeses, what an idea! I kill your wife and you kill my father! We meet on a train, see, and nobody knows we know each other! Perfect alibis! Catch?" From this moment, alm...

Conference at Cold Comfort Farm | Robert Poste's child is back at Cold Comfort Farm. But all is not well. Flora finds the farm transformed into a twee haven filled with Toby jugs and peasant pottery, ...

A Disaffection | The endlessly inventive and gripping story of one man's rebellion and passion Patrick Doyle is a twenty-nine-year-old teacher in an ordinary comprehensive school. Isolated, frustrated...

General of the Dead Army | Twenty years after the end of the Second World War, an Italian general is despatched to Albania to recover his country's dead. Once there he meets a German general who is en...

Operation Napoleon | 1945: a lost German bomber crashes on the Vatnajцkull glacier in Iceland. Inexplicably, in the midst of World War Two, there are both German and American officers on board. One of...

Mythologies | In this magnificent and often surprising collection of essays Barthes explores the myths of mass culture. Taking subjects as diverse as wrestling, films, plastic and cars, Barthes elegan...

The Camomile Lawn | Escape to the Cornish cliffs in the dizzying heat of August 1939, where five cousins are making the most of the last summer of their youth. Oliver is just back from the Spanish Civ...

Bertie. A Life of Edward VII | Edward VII, who gave his name to the Edwardian era but was always known as Bertie, was fifty-nine when he finally came to power and ushered out the Victorian age. The el...

The Essential Writings of Jean-Jacques Rousseau | 'Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains' is the dramatic opening line of The Social Contract, published in 1762. Quoted by politicians and p...

Pride and Prejudice | Discover Jane Austen's most beloved classic. When Elizabeth Bennet meets Mr Darcy, she is repelled by his overbearing pride and prejudice towards her family. But the Bennet girls...

Masks | Published for the first time in the UK, one of Japan's greatest modern female writers Ibuki loves widow Yasuko who is young, charming and sparkling with intelligence as well as beauty. His fri...

Gigi | 'He must know by now, I should think, that I can give as good as I get!' This is the story of Gigi, educated as a future courtesan in Paris, her days are filled with cigars, lobster, lace and s...

The Baron in the Trees | 'I can think of no finer writer to have beside me while Italy explodes, Britain burns, while the world ends' Salman Rushdie From the age of twelve, the Baron Cosimo Piovasco d...

Dinner At The Homesick Restaurant | Through every family run memories which bind it together - despite everything. The Tulls of Baltimore are no exception. Abandoned by her salesman husband, Pearl is ...

The Moor's Last Sigh | 'Salman Rushdie's greatest novel' Sunday Times Moraes 'Moor' Zogoiby is the last in line of a crooked and fantastical dynasty of spice merchants and crime lords from Cochin. He ...

The Innocents | What if everything you'd ever wanted was no longer enough? Adam and Rachel are getting married at last. Childhood sweethearts whose lives and families have been intertwined for years; ...

Midwinter Break | A retired couple, Gerry and Stella Gilmore, fly to Amsterdam for a midwinter break. A holiday to refresh the senses, to see the sights and to generally take stock of what remains of ...