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Almost Blue | A serial killer is terrorising the people of Bologna and rookie Detective Inspector Grazia Negro is determined to solve the case. She only has one witness who can identify the killer - a...

A Redbird Christmas | Welcome to Lost River - and an unforgettable Christmas… When Oswald moves to the sleepy little town of Lost River he's not expecting to make friends - but one by one the eccentri...

Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress | Here is one of those rare novels, so captivatingly original, so absurdly funny, surprising and moving, that it crosses all boundaries. 1971: Mao's cultural R...

The Portable Virgin | Man Booker winner Anne Enright's first collection of short stories, reissued in a sumptuous new series style Discover Man Booker winner Anne Enright's first collection of short s...

The Myth of the Strong Leader. Political Leadership in the Modern Age | Archie Brown challenges the widespread belief that 'strong leaders', dominant individual wielders of power, are the most success...

Vanity Fair | 'I think I could be a good woman if I had five thousand a year' Becky Sharp is a poor orphan when she first makes friends with the lovely Amelia Sedley at Miss Pinkerton's Academy for Yo...

The Troublesome Offspring Of Cardinal Guzman | The epic finale of the Latin American trilogy following The War of Don Emmanuel's Nether Parts and Senor Vivo and the Coca Lord While the economy of his ...

The Double | Watching a rented video, Tertuliano Maximo Afonso is shocked to notice that one of the actors is identical to him in every physical detail. He embarks on a secret quest to find his double...

The Salesman | A compelling and painfully emotional thriller from the author of international bestseller Star of the Sea. From the bestselling author of Star of the Sea and Shadowplay, a thrilling nov...

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich | The Gulag, the Stalinist labour camps to which millions of Russians were condemned for political deviation, has become a household word in the West. This is du...

The Good War. Why We Couldn’t Win the War or the Peace in Afghanistan | A timely lesson in the perils of nation-building and a sobering reminder of the limits of military power from the Costa Award wi...

Civilisations | It's world history. But not as we know it. c.1000AD: Erik the Red's daughter heads south from Greenland 1492: Columbus does not discover America 1531: the Incas invade Europe Freydis i...

Bleak House | 'The one great principle of the English law is, to make business for itself' 'Jarndyce and Jardyce' is an infamous lawsuit that has been in process for generations. Nobody can remember e...

Inside Story | Life...is shapeless, it does not point to and gather round anything, it does not cohere. Artistically, it's dead. Life's dead. So begins a love letter to life, a resuscitation of sorts,...

The Chalk Circle Man | Jean-Baptiste Adamsberg is not like other policemen. His methods appear unorthodox in the extreme: he doesn't search for clues; he ignores obvious suspects and arrests people wi...

The Rings Of Saturn | Encountering an eccentric cast of characters along the way, Sebald confronts the frailty of human existence as he voyages along the Suffolk coast on foot. What begins as the reco...

Sad Little Men | In 1975 Richard Beard was sent away to boarding school. So were Boris Johnson and David Cameron. He didn't enjoy it. But the first and most important lesson was not to let that show. ...

In America. Travels with John Steinbeck | In 1960 John Steinbeck and his dog Charley set out in their green pickup truck to rediscover the soul of America, visiting small towns and cities from New Yor...

To the Lighthouse | The serene and maternal Mrs Ramsay, the tragic yet absurd Mr Ramsay, together with their children and assorted guests, are holidaying on the Isle of Skye. From the seemingly trivia...

Alms For Oblivion. Volume II | Simon Raven's sequence of colourful and funny novels about the English upper-class misbehaving continues against a backdrop of intrigue in Athens, radicalism in Cambridg...

Daisy Fay and the Miracle Man | From the author of the bestselling Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafй comes this sassy, coming of age story, bound to make you laugh and cry in turn. Fannie ...

Ashland & Vine | Kate, a grieving, semi-alcoholic film student, invites an elderly woman to take part in an oral-history documentary. Jean declines, but makes her a bizarre counter-offer: if Kate can ...

Crack in Creation. New Power to Control Evolution | Jennifer Doudna, the world-famous scientist behind CRISPR, 'one of the most monumental discoveries in biology' (New York Times), describes its power...

Glory | Discover an exhilarating novel about power and corruption set in a nation trapped in a cycle as old as time. This is the story of a country on the brink of revolution. It's the story of Destin...

Time Will Darken It | A visit from relatives sparks an implosion in the life of a good-natured family man The decision to invite his Southern relatives to stay proves a fateful one for Austin King. By...

The Snakes | Family secrets can be deadly… Newly-weds Dan and Bea decide to escape London. Driving through France in their beaten-up car they anticipate a long lazy summer, worlds away from their ordi...

The Lion House. The Rise of Suleyman the Magnificent | Venice, 1522. Intelligence arrives from the east confirming Europe's greatest fear: the vastly rich Ottoman Sultan has all he needs to wage total...

Origins. How the Earth Shaped Human History | Human evolution in East Africa was driven by geological forces. Ancient Greece developed democracy because of its mountainous terrain. Voting behaviour in...

Waverley | Read the first historical novel - this tale of romance and adventure during the 1745 Jacobite rebellion will stir the blood and warm the heart. King George is on the throne, but there are t...

Eucalyptus | On a property in New South Wales, a man named Holland lives with his daughter, Ellen. As years pass and Ellen grows into a beautiful young woman, her father announces his decision: she wi...

The Great Level | A ‘magical, haunting’ (Philippa Gregory) novel of a tragic love affair in a threatened world In 1649, Jan Brunt, a Dutchman, arrives in England to work on draining and developing the...

The Dark Road | Meili, a young peasant woman born in the remote heart of China, is married to Kongzi, a village school teacher, and a distant descendant of Confucius. They have a daughter, but despera...

The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest | In the third volume of the Millennium series, Lisbeth Salander lies in critical condition in a Swedish hospital, a bullet in her head. But she's fighting for he...

Jailbird | Vonnegut's riotous urban fairytale about the various fiascos of the Nixon years - a firm fan favourite Walter J. Starbuck's life was on the up. With a Harvard education, a job in federal go...

Bowlaway | Read the sweeping and enchanting new novel from the author of The Giant's House Bertha is an enigma to everyone in Salford, Massachusetts - ever since she was discovered unconscious in a Ne...

The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories | 'As good as anything Tolstoy ever wrote... Self-assured, vital, unforgettable' Guardian The title story of this collection is about a man battling a myster...

Home | Salman Rushdie, a self-described ‘emigrant from one place and a newcomer in two’, explores the true meaning of home. Writing with insight, passion and humour, he looks at what it means to belon...

Little Women | 'Rich or poor, we will keep together and be happy in one another' Christmas won't be the same this year for Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy, as their father is away fighting in the Civil War, and...

The Time Traveller's Guide to Elizabethan England | Discover the era of William Shakespeare and Elizabeth I through the sharp, informative and hilarious eyes of Ian Mortimer. We think of Queen Elizabe...

Dream Sequence | A novel about the brutality of fame and what happens when fandom turns to obsession, from the Booker-shortlisted author of The Quickening Maze Henry Banks, a brilliant, anxiously ambi...

Persuasion | 'In Persuasion, Jane Austen picks up the pen to tell us who we are and what we want' Independent Eight years ago Anne Elliot bowed to pressure from her family and made the decision not to...

Oliver Twist | 'Look here! Here's a jolly life! What's the odds where it comes from?' Meet the Artful Dodger, as roistering and swaggering a young gentleman as ever stood four foot six. With him, you'...

The Phantom of the Open | The hilarious, heartwarming and - unbelievably - true story of Maurice Flitcroft, the World's Worst Golfer When 46-year-old crane driver Maurice Flitcroft chanced his way int...

The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test | Tom Wolfe's genre-defining magical mystery tour through the 1960s published in Vintage Classics for the first time to mark its fiftieth anniversary. In the summer of ...

The Water Kingdom. A Secret History of China | Selected as a Book of the Year by The Times and The Economist China's history is an epic tapestry of courtly philosophies, warring factions and imperial ...

Freya | Freya Wyley meets Nancy Holdaway amid the wild celebrations of VE Day, the prelude to a devoted and competitive friendship… Freya, ambitious and outspoken, pursues a career on Fleet Street whi...

Native Son | Reissued to mark the 80th anniversary of Native Son's publication - discover Richard Wright's brutal and gripping masterpiece this black history month. Reckless, angry and adrift, Bigger ...

The Bat. The First Harry Hole Case | Harry is out of his depth. Detective Harry Hole is meant to keep out of trouble. A young Norwegian girl taking a gap year in Sydney has been murdered, and Harry ha...

Spring | Spring is a deeply moving novel about family, our everyday lives, our joys and our struggles, beautifully illustrated by Anna Bjerger. 'Moving... A circadian novel, set over one day... Entire...

The Music Instinct. How Music Works and Why We Can't Do Without It | Why have all human cultures - today and throughout history - made music? Why does music excite such rich emotion? How do we make se...

The Long Drop | Glasgow, 1957. It is a December night and William Watt is desperate. His family has been murdered and he needs to find out who killed them. He arrives at a bar to meet Peter Manuel, wh...

Letters to Camondo | From the author of the bestselling phenomenon The Hare with Amber Eyes As you may have guessed by now, I am not in your house by accident. I know your street rather well. The Camo...

The Rainbow and the Rose | When Johnny Pascoe attempts to rescue a sick girl from the Tasmanian outback his plane crashes leaving him dangerously injured. Ronnie Clarke, who was trained by Pascoe, end...

In the Falling Snow | Social worker Keith, separated from his wife and their teenage son, is floundering in a world of fraught sexual politics, parental responsibilities and class expectations. He tak...

Stranger in the Shogun's City. A Woman's Life in Nineteenth-Century Japan | The daughter of a Buddhist priest, Tsuneno was born in 1804 in a village in Japan's snow country and was expected to lead a ...

A Single Swallow. Following An Epic Journey From South Africa To South Wales | From the slums of Cape Town to the palaces of Algiers, through Pygmy villages where pineapples grow wild, to the Gulf of ...

A Gun for Sale | The forerunner in its tone and themes to Greene's masterpiece Brighton Rock, A Gun for Sale is a noir thriller shot through with violence, betrayal and tormented souls. With an introd...

Waypoints. A Journey on Foot | A spellbinding travel book, exploring the psychology of walking, pilgrimage, solitude and escape. 'An extraordinary, dreamlike journey through West Africa' Adharanand Fi...

The Weather Experiment. The Pioneers who Sought to see the Future | In an age when a storm was evidence of God's wrath, pioneering meteorologists had to fight against convention and religious dogma to...

Nemesis | It's the sweltering summer of 1944, and Newark is in the grip of a terrifying epidemic. Decent, athletic twenty-three year old playground director Bucky Cantor is devoted to his charges and ...

Difficult Loves and Other Stories | A spectacular display of this key European writer's early work This dazzling collection of stories follows the individual adventures of a varied cast of characters ...

A Rose For Winter | Andalusia is a passion - and fifteen years after his last visit Laurie Lee returned. He found a country broken by the Civil War, but the totems of indestructible Spain survive: the...

Manual of Painting and Calligraphy | H. is a struggling artist with a commission to paint a portrait of a well-known industrialist. Whilst the industrialist sits for the portrait, H. begins an affair ...

London | ‘Wealth and beggary, virtue and vice, repletion and the direst hunger, all treading on each other and crowding together’ Could any writer portray London better than Charles Dickens? Dickens k...