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The Constant Nymph | Avant-garde composer Albert Sanger lives in a ramshackle chalet in the Swiss Alps, surrounded by his 'Circus' of assorted children, admirers and a slatternly mistress. The family ...

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 House of Mirth | The House of Mirth follows the tragic fall of Lily Bart, a beautiful socialite who loses her footing in the savage social-climbing world of New York high society in the nineteenth...

Warlight | London, 1945. The capital is still reeling from the war. 14-year-old Nathaniel and his older sister Rachel are abandoned by their parents who leave the country on business, and are left in ...

The Matter of the Heart. A History of the Heart in Eleven Operations | For thousands of years the human heart remained the deepest of mysteries; both home to the soul and an organ too complex to touch...

An Unofficial Rose | A complex Shakespearean comedy of intertwined relationships, as nine closely linked characters search for love After his wife's death, Hugh contemplates returning to his former mi...

The White Road. A Journey Into Obsession | "Other things in the world are white but for me porcelain comes first" A handful of clay from a Chinese hillside carries a promise: that mixed with the right...

The Common Reader. Volume 2 | 'He reads for his own pleasure rather than to impart knowledge or correct the opinions of others'. So Virginia Woolf described the 'common reader' for whom she wrote her ...

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...

The Judge | Robin Smith was one of England's most popular cricketers of the 1990s. The Judge, as he was known to all, took on some of the most dangerous fast bowlers of all time with a skill and fearl...

The Miracle Life Of Edgar Mint | A miracle of storytelling bursting with heartache and high spirits. Half Apache and mostly orphaned, the adventures of Edgar Presley Mint begin on an Arizona reservati...

Black Sheep | ‘Powerful… Poignant, bleak and haunting, this is a small masterpiece’ Sunday Mirror Brother and sister, Ted and Rose Howker, grew up in Mount of Zeal, a mining village blackened by coal....

Mrs Dalloway | In this vivid portrait of one day in a woman's life, Clarissa Dalloway is preoccupied with the last-minute details of party she is to give that evening. As she readies her house she is ...

Idaho | This sharp, stunning debut novel and Irish bestseller about grief, loss and redemption is your next literary obsession One hot August day a family drives to a mountain clearing to collect birc...

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 Only Story | Would you rather love the more, and suffer the more; or love the less, and suffer the less? That is, I think, finally, the only real question. First love has lifelong consequences, bu...

Mary Queen Of Scots. And the Murder of Lord Darnley | On the night of 10 February 1567 an explosion devastated the Edinburgh residence of Henry Stewart, Lord Darnley, second husband of Mary, Queen of ...

A Fool's Alphabet | Reissued in new series style to match Faulks's most recent novel Where My Heart Used to Beat, which was a major Sunday Times bestseller in 2016 The events of Pietro Russell's life ...

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...

First Love, Last Rites | Taut, brooding and densely atmospheric, these stories show us the ways in which murder can arise out of boredom, perversity can result from adolescent curiosity, and sheer evi...

Success | Smooth-talking, sensual and self-deluded, Gregory Riding leads an existence of formidable foppishness, his days and nights a series of effortless, titillating conquests and tireless sex - si...

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...

The Perfect King. The Life of Edward III, Father of the English Nation | From the bestselling author of The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England, comes the story of King Edward III, who - like E...

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 Essentials of Psycho-Analysis | The Essentials of Psycho-analysis is the definitive collection of Sigmund Freud's writing. It covers the themes that Freud explored in his work from the meaning of ...

The Best Intentions | The first novel in world renowned film-maker, Ingmar Bergman’s trilogy of novels plotting the fractious marriage of his parents In 1909, Ingmar Bergman’s mother and father first ...

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...

Unwinnable. Britain’s War in Afghanistan, 2001–2014 | The definitive, chilling account of Britain's involvement in Afghanistan and the first book to document the entire conflict, from the leading acad...

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...

Viper Wine | Famed beauty Venetia Stanley is so extravagantly dazzling she has inspired Ben Jonson to poetry and Van Dyck to painting, provoking adoration and emulation from the masses. Stampedes foll...

Haunts Of The Black Masseur. The Swimmer as Hero | A new re-issue of the cult swimming classic, a beautiful read filled with detailed description and powerful prose. Haunts of the Black Masseur is a d...

Merivel | A dazzling novel of loyalty and dreams set in Restoration England. The gaudy years of the Restoration are long gone and Robert Merivel, physician and courtier to King Charles II, sets off fo...

Everyman | Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction Everyman is a candidly intimate yet universal story of loss, regret and stoicism. The novel takes its title from a classic of early English dram...

Harnessing Peacocks | A single mother's scandalous past returns to complicate the present in this deftly-plotted comedy by the beloved Mary Wesley. Hebe sits in the darkness and listens to her hypocri...

Unbreakable | Czechoslovakia, October 1937. Vast crowds have gathered to watch the Grand Pardubice steeplechase, Europe's most blood-curdling sporting test of manhood. With war looming, the race has a...

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...

A Farewell to Arms | In 1918 Ernest Hemingway went to war. He volunteered for ambulance service in Italy, was wounded and twice decorated. Out of his experience came A Farewell to Arms. Hemingway's un...

The Infinite Book | Everything you might want to know about infinity - in history and all the way to today's cutting-edge science. Infinity is surely the strangest idea that humans have ever had. Wher...

Not Without Laughter | Celebrating the finest works of the Harlem Renaissance, one of the most important Black arts movements in modern history. 'White peoples maybe mistreats you an' hates you, but w...

Mansfield Park | Read Jane Austen's unsung masterpiece. 'The most perfect artist among women, the writer whose books are immortal' Virginia Woolf Fanny Price's rich relatives offer her a place in thei...

White Chrysanthemum | Winner of the Writers' Guild Award for Best Debut Novel Longlisted for the Authors' Club First Novel Award 'Look for your sister after each dive. Never forget. If you see her, yo...

The Growing Season | What if anyone could have a baby? A boldly original and unforgettable novel from a rising star. Now we have equality. Now we've outgrown our biology. With FullLife's baby pouch, w...

Slapstick or Lonesome No More! | Manhattan has become the Island of Death. The former President of the United States stands barefoot in a purple toga around a cooking fire in the lobby of the Empire S...

Slack-Tide | It is four years since the loss of a child broke her marriage, and Elizabeth is fiercely protective of her independence. She meets Robert - exuberant, generous, apparently care-free - and...

Refusal | When Klara appears in Paris, two months after the end of the war and years after her disappearance into Auschwitz, her best friend and sister-in-law, Angelika, is elated, if apprehensive. In...

The Dancer Upstairs | From the acclaimed author of The Sandpit, an exhilarating literary thriller about the hunt for a missing terrorist in South America. Out of a job but in search of one last scoop ...

The Green Man | Like all good coaching inns, The Green Man is said to boast a resident ghost: Dr Thomas Underhill, a notorious seventeenth-century practitioner of black arts and sexual deviancy. Howev...

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...

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...

Men in My Situation | In 1992 Arvid Jansen is thirty-eight, divorced and paralysed by grief. More than a year has passed since the tragic accident that took his parents and two of his brothers. Existe...

Other People | 'Other People had me purring with pleasure' The Times Like a ghost or a fugitive, Mary roams through London - pursuing and pursued by memory and forgetting, by the compelling Amy Hide a...

The Soul of Discretion | Simon Serrailler faces his most dangerous challenge yet in the edge-of-your-seat thriller from Susan Hill, the bestselling author of The Woman in Black. Going undercover, he m...

How Far Can You Go | Polly, Dennis, Angela, Adrian and the rest are bound to lose their spiritual innocence as well as their virginities on the journey between university in the 1950s and the marriage...

The Painted Veil | 'She was a fool and he knew it and because he loved her it had made no difference' Kitty Fane is the beautiful but shallow wife of Walter, a bacteriologist stationed in Hong Kong. U...

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...

In Europe | The Vintage Classics Europeans series - with covers provided by textile design firm Wallace Sewell, these are must-have editions of European masterpieces, celebrating the warp and weft of ...

The Enchantress of Florence | A tall, yellow-haired young European traveller calling himself 'Mogor dell'Amore', the Mughal of Love, arrives at the court of the real Grand Mughal, the Emperor Akbar, w...

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...

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...

Morvern Callar | It is off-season in a remote Highland sea port: twenty-one-year-old Morvern Callar, a low-paid employee in the local supermarket, wakes one morning to find her strange boyfriend has c...

The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman | Sterne's utterly original novel - the meandering, maddening 'autobiography' of one of literature's oldest comic characters. Doomed to become the ‘...

Orson Welles. Volume 3. One-Man Band | In One-Man Band, the third volume in his epic survey of Orson Welles’ life and work, Simon Callow again probes in comprehensive and penetrating detail into one o...

Play It Again. An Amateur Against the Impossible | In 2010, Alan Rusbridger, the editor of the Guardian, set himself an almost impossible task: to learn, in the space of a year, Chopin's Ballade No. 1...

Only to Sleep | Wealthy dead American. Beautiful young widow. This case has PI Philip Marlowe’s name written all over it. Is it enough to bring him back for one last adventure? The year is 1988. The p...