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The Darkness Knows | A frozen body is discovered in the icy depths of Langjokull glacier. The victim: a businessman missing for thirty years. The case: impossible to solve. Until now. Konrad, the reti...

Mr Kafka and Other Tales | Enter the gas-lit streets of post-war Prague, the steelworks run by singed men, the covered market that smells of new-born babes, the cacophonous open-air dance hall. Mr Kaf...

Life. A User's Manual | In this ingenious book Perec creates an entire microcosm in a Paris apartment block. Serge Valene wants to make an elaborate painting of the building he has made his home for t...

London and the South-East | Paul Rainey, an ad salesman, perceives dimly through a fog of psychoactive substances his dissatisfaction with his life- professional, sexual, weekends, the lot. He only wi...

Letters to Milena | Franz Kafka's letters to his one-time muse, Milena Jesenska - an intimate window into the desires and hopes of the twentieth-century's most prophetic and important writer Kafka fir...

Cold Water | 'A beautiful debut novel... A real achievement... This is a wise and incisive first novel from a real talent' - Scotsman Winner of the Betty Trask Award. Carmel McKisco is wry, volatile a...

Selected Stories | Edgar Allan Рое was a writer of uncommon talent; in 'The Murders in the Rue Morgue' he created the genre of detective fiction while his genius for finding the strangeness lurking wi...

Enduring Love | One windy spring day in the Chilterns, Joe Rose's calm, organized life is shattered by a ballooning accident. The afternoon, Rose reflects, could have ended in mere tragedy, but for hi...

The Voice in My Ear | Ten women, all called Claire, are tangled up in complex power dynamics with their families, friends, and lovers. Though all are different ages, and leading different lives, each ...

The Northmen's Fury. A History of the Viking World | The Northmen’s Fury tells the Viking story, from the first pinprick raids of the eighth century to the great armies that left their Scandinavian ho...

Birth of a Theorem. A Mathematical Adventure | How does a genius see the world? Where and how does inspiration strike? Cedric Villani takes us on a mesmerising adventure as he wrestles with the Boltzm...

Two Storm Wood | The guns are silent. The dead are not. 1919. On the battlefields of northern France, the guns of the Great War are silent. Special battalions now face the task of gathering up the dea...

Friend Of My Youth | A woman haunted by dreams of her dead mother. An adulterous couple stepping over the line where the initial excitement ends and the pain begins. A widow visiting a Scottish villag...

The Sun King | This gossipy account of Louis XIV is a clear and fascinating historical biography from Nancy Mitford. During his reign Louis XIV was the most powerful king in Europe. He presided over a...

Roads To Santiago | 'One of the great books about Spain' - Tristan Garel-Jones, Observer A many-tangented pilgrimage through ten centuries of Spain's history, its politics, its art, literature and arc...

Ordinary People | Two couples find themselves at a moment of reckoning. Melissa has a new baby and doesn't want to let it change her. Damian has lost his father and intends not to let it get to him. M...

The Benefit of Hindsight | One rainy night, a couple welcomes two strangers needing help into their home. It's an act they will regret for the rest of their lives. On the other side of town a woman is...

Girl At The Lion d'Or | Mid-1930s, Northern France. A mysterious young girl named Anne Louvet arrives at the seedy Hotel du Lion d'Or in the small French town of Janvilliers. She is seeking a job and ...

The Magus | On a remote Greek Island, Nicholas Urfe finds himself embroiled in the deceptions of a master trickster. As reality and illusion intertwine, Urfe is caught up in the darkest of psychologic...

Therese Raquin | Mysterious disappearances, domestic cases, noiseless, bloodless snuffings-out… the law can look as deep as it likes, but when the crime itself goes unsuspected… oh yes, there's many a...

Memoirs | Elegant, provocative and hugely entertaining, Kingsley Amis's memoirs are filled with anecdotes, experiences and portraits of famous friends, family, acquaintances (and a few eminent foes). ...

Therapy | What do we do when we find ourselves trapped by our own thoughts or behaviour? Drawing on his twenty-five years' experience as a psychoanalyst, Stephen Grosz ushers the reader through the do...

The House of the Spirits | As a girl, Clara del Valle can read fortunes, make objects move as if they had lives of their own, and predict the future. Following the mysterious death of her sister, Rosa...

Inishowen | Inishowen is by turns wildly funny and deeply moving, from the author of Star of the Sea. From the bestselling author of Star of the Sea and Shadowplay, 'a powerful, moving adventure of ra...

Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde | Dr Jekyll has been experimenting with his identity. He has developed a drug which separates the two sides of his nature and allows him occasionally to abandon himself to his mo...

On Chapel Sands. My mother and other missing persons | Uncovering the mystery of her mother's disappearance as a child: Laura Cumming, prize-winning author and art critic, takes a closer look at her f...

The Man From Beijing | In a sleepy hamlet in north Sweden, the local police make a chilling discovery; nineteen people have been brutally slaughtered. It is a crime unprecedented in Sweden's history a...

A Mercy | On the day that Jacob, an Anglo-Dutch trader, agrees to accept a slave in lieu of payment for a debt from a plantation owner, little Florens's life changes irrevocably. With her keen intelli...

The Echo Maker | From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Overstory, an intense, thrilling novel about a near fatal accident and its devastating consequences. On a winter night, Mark Schluter’s t...

What Mental Illness Really Is… (and what it isn’t) | We need to rethink the conversation around mental health - psychologist Lucy Foulkes explores how and why. How do mental health problems arise? How...

Goodbye, Columbus | Philip Roth's debut novella and Winner of the National Book Award for Fiction Goodbye, Columbus is the story of Neil Klugman and pretty, spirited Brenda Patimkin, he of poor Newark...

Untold Night and Day | Finishing her last shift at Seoul's only audio theatre for the blind, Kim Ayami heads into the night with her former boss, searching for a missing friend. The following day, she...

Italian Ways. On and Off the Rails from Milan to Palermo | In 1981 Tim Parks moved from England to Italy and spent the next thirty years alongside hundreds of thousands of Italians on his adopted coun...

Did You Ever Have a Family | This book of dark secrets opens with a blaze. On the morning of her daughter's wedding, June Reid's house goes up in flames, destroying her entire family - her present, he...

Figures in a Landscape | 'Masterful and beautifully written. Riveting and compellingly authentic. Grips you like a vice from the first page and never lets you go' Damien Lewis Two men are on the run. ...

The Fears of Henry IV. The Life of England's Self-Made King | From the saviour of the realm to the subject of multiple attempted assassinations in the space of six years. King Henry IV's reign was cha...

Ripley Under Ground | "You're always good on ideas, Tom..." An American art collector is claiming that the expensive masterpiece he bought is a fake. He wants to meet with the artist - but Tom Ripley ...

The Phantom of the Opera | Discover the classic Gothic horror novel of haunted cellars, opera, murder and unrequited love that inspired Andrew Lloyd Webber's long-running west end hit. Christine is a ...

Winter | From global literary superstar Karl Ove Knausgaard, an achingly beautiful collection of daily meditations and love letters addressed directly to Knausgaard's unborn daughter In Winter, we rej...

The Treeline. The Last Forest and the Future of Life on Earth | A ground-breaking and beautifully written investigation into the Arctic Treeline with an urgent environmental message. The Arctic treeli...

The Secret Garden | Rediscover the favourite childhood classic. What little girl can turn a whole household upside down and breathe new life back into a strange, old manor? The wonderfully contrary, s...

Far Eastern Tales | Mesmerising short stories by this neglected 20th century master. Far Eastern Tales is a collection of short stories born of Maugham's experiences in Malaya, Singapore and other out...

Half of the Human Race | Summer of 1911. English society is on the brink of change. The streets of London ring with cheers for a new king's coronation and the cries of increasingly violent suffragette...

Collected Stories | Richard Yates was acclaimed as one of the most powerful, compassionate and accomplished writers of America's post-war generation. Whether addressing the smothered desire of suburba...

Quicksand & Passing | Celebrating the finest works of the Harlem Renaissance, one of the most important Black arts movements in modern history. 'She could neither conform nor be happy in her unconform...

Zone One | A pandemic has devastated the planet, sorting humanity into two types: the uninfected and the infected, the living and the living dead. The worst of the plague is now past, and Manhattan is...

A Burnt-out Case | Querry, a world famous architect, is the victim of a terrible attack of indifference: he no longer finds meaning in art or pleasure in life. Arriving anonymously at a Congo leper vi...

In the Sea There are Crocodiles | I read somewhere that the decision to emigrate comes from a need to breathe. The hope of a better life is stronger than any other feeling. My mother decided it was be...

Ecstasy | Rebecca Navarro, best-selling authoress of Regency romances, suffers a paralysing stroke. Assisted by her nurse, Rebecca plans her revenge on her unfaithful husband. But will Freddy Royle, h...

Gain | In Lacewood, Illinois, Laura Bodey, a divorced mother of two and real estate agent, plunges into a new existence when she learns that she has cancer. This same small town is home to Clare & Com...

Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Other Stories | How thin is the line between good and evil? Discover the classic tale of gothic horror Dr Jekyll has been experimenting with his identity. He has developed a ...

Tulip Fever | From the bestselling author of The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, Tulip Fever is now re-jacketed along with the rest of Deborah Moggach's books in gorgeous series style 'A gorgeous novel' M...

The Artist, The Philosopher and The Warrior | In the autumn of 1502 three giants of the Renaissance period - Cesare Borgia, Leonardo da Vinci and Niccolo Machiavelli - set out on one of the most treac...

Reheated Cabbage | Hilarious, shocking and hugely entertaining, Reheated Cabbage has all the classic Irvine Welsh ingredients In Reheated Cabbage you can enjoy Christmas dinner with Begbie and discove...

The Black Prince of Florence. The Life of Alessandro de' Medici | 'A spectacular, elegant, brilliant portrait of skulduggery, murder and sex in Renaissance Florence' Simon Sebag Montefiore, Evening St...

Cockfosters | Cockfosters is a funny, frank and forceful story collection dealing with ageing, ambition and the patterns of repetition and renewal found in long friendships and marriages. It opens irr...

From the Heart | A devastating coming-of-age story about a woman caught in the wrong era, from the bestselling author of The Woman in Black. Everyone likes Olive Piper. A happy, open-hearted child gro...

The Complete Stories | The Complete Stories gathers together Anita Desai's short story collections Diamond Dust and Games at Twilight and the novellas of The Artist of Disappearance, with a new prefac...

Babbitt | From the author of It Can't Happen Here, a satirical portrait of a town obsessed by capitalism and the 'values' of the marketplace BY THE AUTHOR OF IT CAN'T HAPPEN HERE Businessman George F....

Autumn | Autumn begins with a letter Karl Ove Knausgaard writes to his unborn daughter. He adds one short piece each day, describing the material and natural world - from twilight to the migration of ...

Life Without Children | Love and marriage, children and family, death and grief. Life touches everyone the same, but living under lockdown? It changes us alone. A man abroad wanders the stag-and-hen-s...

The English Teacher | R. K. Narayan is one of India's most valued and adored twentieth-century novelists. He takes his place alongside Graham Greene, Elizabeth Bowen and Chekhov in the pantheon of twe...

The Shadow District | The first instalment in the thrilling new crime series from worldwide bestseller Arnaldur Indridason The Past In wartime Reykjavik, a young woman is found strangled in a dangerou...

A Kind Man | A transfixing parable of greed, goodness and an extraordinary miracle from the author of The Woman in Black. Tommy Carr was a kind man; Eve had been able to tell that after half an hour o...