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Who Do You Think You Are? | Previously published as 'The Beggar Maid', Alice Munro's wonderful collection of stories reads like a novel, following Rose's life as she moves away from her impoverished r...

More Work for the Undertaker | Agatha Christie called her 'a shining light'. Have you discovered Margery Allingham, the 'true queen' of the classic murder mystery? In a masterpiece of storytelling, Ma...

Free Love | As London comes alive with the 1960s youth revolution, one woman makes a choice that defies all expectations. It's 1967 and London is alive with the new youth revolution. In the suburbs, m...

Macbeth | He's the best cop they've got. When a drug bust turns into a bloodbath it's up to Inspector Macbeth and his team to clean up the mess. He's also an ex-drug addict with a troubled past. He's ...

Doctor Faustus | A masterpiece of German modernism and one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century. Adrian Leverkuhn is a young man destined for success. He is a composer - creative and brilli...

Elizabeth's Women | A groundbreaking and fascinating biography of England's most famous queen, viewed through the women who influenced her life. Elizabeth I is often portrayed as a ruthless 'man's wom...

A Little Princess | ‘I pretend I am a princess, so that I can try and behave like one’ Without her beloved father and miles from home, it is very hard for Sara Crewe to like her new life at boarding s...

Silence Of The Grave | Building work in an expanding Reykjavik uncovers a shallow grave. Years before, this part of the city was all open hills, and Erlendur and his team hope this is a typical Icelan...

North and South | 'A really remarkable picture of the reality, as well as the prosperity, of northern industrial life, and an interesting examination of changing social conscience' Joanna Trollope Mil...

Missee Lee | 'So long,' called the harbourmaster. 'Don't run into Missee Lee!' The Swallows, Amazons and Captain Flint don't pay much heed to the harbourmaster's friendly warning as they set off for C...

Lessons | When the world is still counting the cost of the Second World War and the Iron Curtain has descended, young Roland Baines's life is turned upside down. Stranded at boarding school, his vulne...

Landfall | Jerry Chambers, a fresh-faced young pilot, mistakenly sinks a British submarine. He is reprimanded and sent to a remote posting to test an experimental new bomb, a dangerous mission far awa...

Revolutionary Road | Hailed as a masterpiece from its first publication, Revolutionary Road is the story of Frank and April Wheeler, a bright young couple who are bored by the banalities of suburban l...

Irresistible. Why you are addicted to technology and how to set yourself free | Almost half of the developed population has an internet-based addiction. In some ways this is not surprising, as our wor...

Something Happened | Joseph Heller's other masterpiece - a darkly comic, sometimes tragic satire that does for the American Dream what Catch-22 did for the madness of war 'Joseph Heller's finest achie...

Police at the Funeral | Agatha Christie called her ‘a shining light’. Have you discovered Margery Allingham, the 'true queen' of the classic murder mystery? The tranquility of Cambridge is punctured w...

Witches. James I and the English Witch Hunts | September 1613. In Belvoir Castle, the heir of one of England's great noble families falls suddenly and dangerously ill. His body is 'tormented' with vio...

The Three Evangelists | The opera singer Sophia Simeonidis wakes up one morning to discover that a tree has appeared overnight in the garden of her Paris house. Intrigued and unnerved, she turns to he...

Christmas at Cold Comfort Farm | The title story tells of a typical Christmas at the farm before the coming of Flora Poste. It is a parody of the worst sort of family Christmas: Adam Lambsbreath dress...

The Siege of Loyalty House. A new history of the English Civil War | It was a time of climate change and colonialism, puritans and populism, witch hunts and war . . . This is the story of a home that ...

Dog Years | The final part of the magisterial Danzig Trilogy by Nobel Prize-winning Gunter Grass. In an explosive fusion of myth and reality, magic and romance, Dog Years charts forty years of German ...

The Devil at Saxon Wall | Rediscover Gladys Mitchell – one of the 'Big Three' female crime fiction writers alongside Agatha Christie and Dorothy L. Sayers. Psychoanalyst and detective Mrs Bradley advi...

Falling Out of Time | In Falling Out of Time, David Grossman has created a genre-defying drama - part play, part prose, pure poetry - to tell the story of bereaved parents setting out to reach their l...

Lotte In Weimar | Read Thomas Mann's meditation on the power of literary representation and the tyranny of the writer's imagination. Mann's novel, written some 150 years after Goethe's The Sorrows of ...

Italian Life. A Modern Fable of Loyalty and Betrayal | How does Italy really work? When Valeria travels from hot, dusty Basilicata to begin her studies in a northern university town, she has little id...

A Vision of the World. Selected Short Stories | The first authorised selected collection of the twentieth-century's most influential short story writer. Selected and Introduced by Julian Barnes Winner...

Oh, Play That Thing | It's 1924, and New York is the centre of the universe. Henry Smart, on the run from Dublin, falls on his feet. He is a handsome man with a sandwich board, behind which he stashes...

Slide Rule | Nevil Shute was a power and a pioneer in the world of flying long before he began to write the stories that made him a bestselling novelist. This autobiography charts Shute's path from ch...

Prayers for the Stolen | 'Now we make you ugly,' my mother said. 'The best thing you can be in Mexico is an ugly girl.' On the mountainside in rural Mexico where Ladydi lives, being a girl is dangerou...

Wanting | Mathinna, an Aboriginal girl from Van Diemen's Land, is adopted by nineteenth-century explorer, Sir John Franklin, and his wife, Lady Jane. Franklin is confident that shining the light of re...

Australia. A Biography of a Nation | Australia celebrated one hundred years as a nation in 2001. This book - part history, part travelogue, part memoir - tells the inspiring story of how a one-time Br...

Searching For Caleb | Discover Pulitzer Prize-winning, Sunday Times bestselling author Anne Tyler's deeply personal American historical epic. Duncan Peck is a restless man, always on the move. His wif...

To the Top of the Mountain | A man is blown up in a high-security prison. A major drugs baron comes under attack. A massacre takes place in a dark suburb. Detective Paul Hjelm and his team have been d...

The Extraordinary Journey of the Fakir who got Trapped in an Ikea Wardrobe | Armed only with a counterfeit 100-Euro note, Ajatashatru the fakir arrives in Paris. His mission? To acquire a splendid new...

Four Hundred Souls. A Community History of African America 1619-2019 | Four Hundred Souls is an epoch-defining history of African America, the first to appear in a generation, told by ninety leading B...

Blue Dog | 'The kind of book that changes readers for the better' Guardian When a family tragedy means Mick is sent to the outback to live with his Granpa, it looks as if he has a lonely life ahead of...

What the Day Owes the Night | 'Darling, this is Younes. Yesterday he was my nephew, today he is our son'. Younes' life is changed forever when his poverty-stricken parents surrender him to the care of...

For Whom the Bell Tolls | 'The best fictional report of the Spanish Civil War that we possess' Anthony Burgess **AS SEEN ON WRITE AROUND THE WORLD WITH RICHARD E GRANT** 'The best fictional report of ...

Red Dog | The enchanting story of a very remarkable dog from the author of the bestselling Captain Corelli's Mandolin. ‘In early 1998 I went to Perth in Western Australia in order to attend the litera...

How Sleep The Brave | Heroic and moving accounts of the R.A.F. in war time by the author of Fair Stood the Wind for France and The Darling Buds of May 'After 60 years of writing and reading, I would p...

The Time Machine | In the Time Traveller's miraculous new machine, we will be carried from a Victorian dinner table to 802,701 AD, when the Earth is divided between the gentle, ineffective Eloi, and t...

Time's Arrow | Tod. T. Friendly is living his life backwards. Doctor Friendly has just died, but after weeks of improving in the hospital, he is sent home to his affable, melting-pot, primary-colour e...

The Prince | Machiavelli’s highly influential treatise on political power 'It is far safer to be feared than loved...' The Prince shocked Europe on publication with its advocacy of ruthless tactics fo...

Blood River. A Journey to Africa's Broken Heart | A compulsively readable account of an African country now virtually inaccessible to the outside world and one journalist's daring and adventurous jour...

The Waiting Years | Published for the first time in the UK, one of Japan's greatest modern female writers In the late nineteenth century, Tomo, the faithful wife of a government official, is sent to T...

Peter Duck | ‘Why do they call him Black Jake? Is it because of his hair?’ Titty asked. ‘Because of his heart’ said Peter Duck The Swallows and Amazons, as well as Captain Flint and the ancient able s...

Madame Bovary | Emma Bovary is an avid reader of sentimental novels; brought up on a Normandy farm and convent-educated, she longs for romance. At first, Emma pins her hopes on marriage, but life with...

Spider Woman. A Life | Lady Hale is an inspirational figure admired for her historic achievements and for the causes she has championed. Spider Woman is her story. As 'a little girl from a little scho...

Diary of an Ordinary Woman | Margaret Forster presents the 'edited' diary of a woman, born in 1901, whose life spans the twentieth century. On the eve of the Great War, Millicent King begins to keep h...

Too Much Happiness | These are beguiling, provocative stories about manipulative men and the women who outwit them, about destructive marriages and curdled friendships, about mothers and sons, about m...

So Long, See You Tomorrow | Discover this extraordinary and beautiful novel from one of America's greatest novelists. In rural Illinois two tenant farmers share much, finally too much, until jealously...

After the Fire | The final novel from the bestselling author of the Inspector Wallander mysteries Fredrik Welin is a seventy-year-old retired doctor. Years ago he retreated to the Swedish archipelago,...

Round the Bend | When Tom Cutter hires Constantine Shaklin as an engineer in his air freight business, he little realises the extraordinary gifts of his new recruit. Shaklin possesses a religious powe...

The Rings of Saturn | What begins as the record of W. G. Sebald’s own journey on foot through coastal East Anglia, from Lowestoft to Bungay, becomes the conductor of evocations of people and cultures ...

The Illogic of Kassel | A puzzling phone call shatters a writer’s routine. An enigmatic female voice extends an invitation to take part in Documenta, the legendary contemporary art exhibition held eve...

The Incredible Journey | 'Only one thing was clear and certain - that at all costs he was going home, home to his own beloved master...' The Hunter children must go abroad for the summer, so they relu...

Dancing Ledge | 'What started as a book on the frustration of funding led to the writing of an autobiography at forty... I had so little to do in the daylight hours, I stayed up late unbuttoning Levis...

Dog Will Have His Day | How do you solve a murder without a body? Keeping watch under the windows of the Paris flat belonging to a politician's nephew, ex-special investigator Louis Kehlweiler catches...

Memed, My Hawk | Memed grows up a serf to a vicious overlord on the thistle-clad plains of Turkey’s Taurus region. When his plan to escape is dashed, and the young woman he loves murdered, Memed makes...

The Heat of the Day | A tense thriller of suspicion, betrayal and espionage set in wartime London It is wartime London, and the carelessness of people with no future flows through the evening air. Ste...

Kant and the platypus | A playful collection of philosophical critiques from the internationally acclaimed and bestselling author of The Name of the Rose and The Prague Cemetery How much do our percep...

The Bayeux Tapestry. The Life Story of a Masterpiece | The vivid scenes on the Bayeux Tapestry depict the events leading up to the Battle of Hastings in 1066. It is one of Europe's greatest treasures ...

Villette | Read this beautiful, romantic feminist classic from the author of Jane Eyre. When Lucy Snowe leaves England to look for a new life on the Continent she has no idea what lies in store for he...

The Hare With Amber Eyes | Edmund de Waal uncovers the history of a family through a turbulent century through 264 objects. 264 wood and ivory carvings, none of them bigger than a matchbox: Edmund de ...