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Something to Hide | Petra's love life is a bit of a car-crash, even in her sixties. But then she falls for Jeremy, an old chum, visiting from abroad. The catch? Jeremy is her best friend's husband. An...

Arctic Dreams | The author of Horizon's classic work explores the Arctic landscape and the hold it continues to exert on our imagination. Lopez's journey across our frozen planet is a celebration of t...

Genghis Khan. The Man Who Conquered the World | Genghis Khan was by far the greatest conqueror the world has ever known, whose empire stretched from the Pacific Ocean to central Europe, including all ...

Cryptocurrency. The Future of Money? | 1988 saw the birth of the internet. 2008 gave us bitcoin. Today, cybercurrencies are changing the world we live in. What would a world without banks, credit card...

Wise Children | A richly comic tale of the tangled fortunes of two theatrical families, the Hazards and the Chances, Angela Carter's witty and bawdy novel is populated with as many sets of twins, and ...

No Name | 'A masterpiece' The Times After the tragic deaths of their parents, Magdalen and Norah discover the devastating news that they are both illegitimate and not entitled to any inheritance. Nora...

Cancer Ward | Solzhenitsyn's celebrated novel describes the lives of people in the Soviet Union under Stalin who were condemned on health grounds to "internment" or death. It also give a psychological...

Summer | How do you remember the summers of your childhood? For Laurie Lee they were flower-crested, heady, endless days. Here is an evocation of summer like no other - a remote valley filled with the...

Hard Like Water | A breakneck adventure story following the erotic love affair of party cadres Aijun and Hongmei during China's Cultural Revolution This is the story of the freewheeling love affair be...

A Patchwork Planet | From the Pulitzer prize-winning Sunday Times bestseller Anne Tyler. A Patchwork Planet is now re-jacketed along with the rest of Tyler's books in striking new backlist style Barna...

For Your Eyes Only | There's no better time to rediscover James Bond. Who killed an elderly couple in their Caribbean home? M knows exactly who did it, but the murderers will most likely escape throug...

Heavy Water And Other Stories | 'Cracking prose - highly inventive, inimitably stylish and funny' The Times In Martin Amis's short stories whole worlds are created - or inverted. In 'Straight Fiction'...

The Inner Life of Animals. Surprising Observations of a Hidden World | Can horses feel shame? Do deer grieve? Why do roosters deceive hens? We tend to assume that we are the only living things able to...

Sunstroke and Other Stories | Everyday life crackles with the electricity sparking between men and women, between parents and children, between friends. A son confesses to his mother that he is cheati...

Babel Tower | After her husband becomes violent, Frederica Potter flees with her young son to London. There, she secures a teaching position in an art school, and finds herself surrounded by painters ...

Baudolino | 'A totally compelling journey into a lost world - a masterpiece' Sunday Telegraph An extraordinary epic, brilliantly-imagined, new novel from a world-class writer and author of The Name of...

The Adventures and Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes | This volume collects together Sherlock Holmes's most memorable and intriguing cases, including adventures with mysterious masked strangers, ingenious he...

Solar | Michael Beard is a Nobel prize-winning physicist whose best work is behind him. A compulsive womaniser, Beard finds his fifth marriage floundering. But this time it is different: his wife is h...

The Shadow Killer | The crime: Reykjavik, August 1941. When a travelling salesman is found murdered in a basement flat, the police initially suspect a member of the Allied occupation force. The suspec...

Sugar | Young and confident, with a swagger in her step, Sugar arrives in the southern town of Bigelow hoping to start over. Soon Bigelow is alight with gossip and suspicion, and Sugar fears her past ...

Self Comes to Mind | The trailblazing investigation of a question that has confounded us for centuries: how is consciousness created? In Self Comes to Mind, world-renowned neuroscientist Antonio Damas...

The Tiger In The Smoke | Agatha Christie called her 'a shining light'. Have you discovered Margery Allingham, the 'true queen' of the classic murder mystery? A fog is creeping through the weary street...

Vesper Flights. New and Collected Essays | Animals don't exist to teach us things, but that is what they have always done, and most of what they teach us is what we think we know about ourselves. From...

The Thirst | There's a new killer on the streets...A woman is found murdered after an internet date. The marks left on her body show the police that they are dealing with a particularly vicious killer...

Saint Maybe | When eighteen-year-old Ian Bedloe pricks the bubble of his family's optimistic self-deception, his brother Danny drives into a wall, his sister-in-law falls apart, and his parents age be...

A Broken World. Letters, Diaries and Memories of the Great War | A lieutenant writes of digging through bodies that have the consistency of Camembert cheese; a mother sends flower seeds to her son at ...

I'm Your Man. The Life of Leonard Cohen | The definitive biography of the late Leonard Cohen - singer-songwriter, musician, poet, and novelist. The genius behind such classic songs as Suzanne, So Long...

Gigi and The Cat | Gigi’s days are filled with cigars, lobster, lace and superstitions: the education of a future courtesan. Bored and unconvinced by what she’s taught, Gigi surprises all with her app...

A Wild Sheep Chase | Haruki Murakami's third novel, A Wild Sheep Chase is the mystery hybrid which completes the odyssey begun in Hear the Wind Sing and Pinball, 1973. The man was leading an aimless l...

Treasure Island | 'Who can think of a pirate without conjuring up the image of Long John Silver?' Daily Mail When young Jim Hawkins discovers a treasure map in a pirate's chest in his parents' inn, he...

The Innocent | Re-jacketed in stunning new series style, The Innocent is a startlingly prescient novel from Booker prize-winning, Sunday Times-bestselling Ian McEwan. The Innocent is a startlingly pre...

The Gospel According to Jesus Christ | Saramago's ingenious fictionalised account of the life of Jesus Saramago's Jesus is the son not of God but of Joseph. Mary Magdalene is his lover not his convert...

Scaramouche. A Romance of the French Revolution | When Andre-Louis witnesses the murder of his best friend by an arrogant and privileged aristocrat he swears to avenge his death. Forced to flee his ho...

The Nice and the Good | Iris Murdoch really knows how to write, can tell a story, delineate a character, catch an atmosphere with deadly accuracy John Betjeman A revolver shot rings through a Whitehal...

Thirst for Love | After the early death of her philandering husband, Etsuko moves into her father-in-law's house, where she numbly submits to the old man's advances. But soon she finds herself in love...

Our Ladies | The choir from Our Lady of Perpetual Succour School for Girls is being bussed to the national finals in the big, big city. It's an important day for The Sopranos, with pub-crawling, shopl...

Friends And Relations | Two sisters, two weddings, just months apart. These marriages produce a tangle of friends, relations and lovers that starts to unravel ten years later, during one intense week....

The Day of the Locust and Miss Lonelyhearts | In The Day of the Locust a young artist, Tod Hackett, arrives in LA full of dreams. But celebrity and artifice rule and he soon joins the ranks of the dis...

The Malayan Trilogy | A satiric trilogy about the last days of English Colonialism in Malaya in 1950s. 'Like all good comic writers Mr Burgess lives his creations as much as he writes them. First clas...

Smile | Just moved into a new apartment, alone for the first time in years, Victor Forde goes every evening to Donnelly’s pub for a pint, a slow one. One evening his drink is interrupted. A man in sho...

A Severed Head | A complicated and comic story of dangerous love affairs Martin believes he can possess both a beautiful wife and a delightful lover. But when his wife, Antonia, suddenly leaves him fo...

Look At the Birdie | Look at the Birdie evokes a world in which squabbling couples, high school geniuses, misfit office workers, and small-town Lotharios struggle to adapt to changing technology, mora...

Late in the Day | The lives of two close-knit couples are irrevocably changed by an untimely death in this Sunday Times bestselling novel Alex and Christine and Zach and Lydia have been inseparable si...

Coming Through Slaughter | Based on the life of cornet player Buddy Bolden, one of the legendary jazz pioneers of turn-of-the-twentieth-century New Orleans, Coming Through Slaughter is an extraordinar...

Letting Go | Gabe Wallach, freshly discharged from the Korean War army, reeling from his mother's recent death, and thus freed from old attachments, is hungrily seeking new ones. He's drawn to Paul He...

Northanger Abbey | Jane Austen takes a satirical swipe at the gothic novel in this classic book bursting with sly subversive wit. 'Jane Austen is a genius, and Northanger Abbey is hugely underrated' M...

Skyfaring. A Journey With a Pilot | Think back to when you first flew. When you first left the Earth, and travelled high and fast above its turning arc. When you looked down on a new world, captured s...

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...

Homesickness | A quiet night in the neighbourhood pub is shattered by the arrival of a sword-wielding fugitive. A funeral party teeters on the edge of this world and the next, as ghosts won't settle. ...

DarkMarket. How Hackers Became the New Mafia | The essential crime book of our times, from the author of the bestselling McMafia. Shortlisted for the Orwell Prize 2012 We live our lives online - banki...

Hard Times | 'Facts alone are wanted in life' The children at Mr Gradgrind's school are sternly ordered to stifle their imaginations and pay attention only to cold, hard reality. They live in a smoky,...

Fallout | The intoxicating new novel from the number one bestselling author of The Outcast London 1972. Luke is dazzled by the city. It seems a world away from the provincial town he has fled along wi...

Truth and Consequences | 'Delightful... Her characters are, as always, wonderfully imperfect' New York Review of Books Alan has changed because he's injured his back. Pain has altered his appearance a...

Westwood or The Gentle Powers | 'Stella Gibbons is the Jane Austen of the twentieth century' The Times Set in wartime London, Westwood tells the story of Margaret Steggles, a plain bookish girl whose ...

The Grand Babylon Hotel | Nella, daughter of millionaire Theodore Racksole, orders a dinner of steak and beer at the exclusive Grand Babylon Hotel in London. Her order is refused, so Theodore promptly...

The Great American Novel | The Ruppert Mundys, once the greatest baseball team in America, are now in a terminal decline, their line-up filled with a disreputable assortment of old men, drunks and eve...

In the Darkness | Eva is walking by the river with her seven-year-old daughter when they catch sight of a man’s body in the water. Eva tells her daughter to wait while she calls the police, but when s...

Live a Little | A wickedly observed novel about falling in love at the end of your life, by the Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Finkler Question. At the age of ninety-something, Beryl Dusinbery...

Double Blind | Three lives collide, not one of them will emerge unchanged - the exhilarating new novel from the author of the Patrick Melrose series. When Olivia meets a new lover, Francis, just as sh...

Bridget Jones. Mad About the Boy | Celebrate twenty-five years of Britain's favourite singleton with this laugh-out-loud number one bestseller. Is it morally wrong to have a blow-dry when one of your ...

Drinking | What’s the worst another drink could do? John Cheever pours out our most sociable of vices, and hands it to us in a highball. From the calculating teenager who raids her parents’ liquor cab...

Travels With My Aunt | A witty, inventive read with anyone for a passion for travel Henry Pulling, a retired bank manager, meets his septuagenarian Aunt Augusta for the first time in over fifty years ...

Oblivion | The Quick A woman swims in a remote, milky-blue lagoon. Steam rises from the water and as it clears, a body is revealed in the ghostly light. The Dead Miles away, a vast aircraft hangar ris...

Michael Kohlhaas | 'I finished it in one sitting. Probably for the tenth time... it carries me along waves of wonder' Franz Kafka Michael Kohlhaas Has Been Wronged. He Will Have Justice. Based on the ...