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Winter Holiday | Or so Nancy thinks. Then the lake ices over completely and the Swallows and Amazons, along with Dick and Dorothea - 'the D's' - plan a race to find the North Pole. How will they reach...

The Vows of Silence. A Simon Serrailler Case | A gunman is terrorising young women. What links these seemingly random murders? Is the marksman with a rifle the same person as the killer with a handgun...

Spoon-Fed. Why almost everything we've been told about food is wrong | The ground-breaking exploration of food myths from Tim Spector, creator of the COVID Symptom Study app. 'Hugely enjoyable Michael...

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 Making of Incarnation | The most ambition and exciting novel yet from the Booker shortlisted author of C and Satin Island. Bodies in motion. Birds, bees and bobsleighs. What is the force that move...

A Quiet Word. Lobbying, Crony Capitalism and Broken Politics in Britain | An explosive and revelatory account about the British lobbying industry and how it affects us all at every level of our lives....

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...

Gorsky | London dances to the tune of Gorsky's billions.The most enigmatic of oligarchs, Gorsky desires and gets the best of everything and now he has his sights set on Natalia. That she is already ma...

Dunbar | Henry Dunbar, the once all-powerful head of a global media corporation, is not having a good day. In his dotage he handed over care of the corporation to his two eldest daughters, Abby and Me...

Waiting for the Barbarians | The modern classic from double Booker Prize winner J.M. Coetzee – soon to be a major film starring Mark Rylance, Robert Pattinson and Johnny Depp For decades the Magistrat...

The Gentleman In The Parlour | Somerset Maugham's success as a writer enabled him to indulge his adventurous love of travel, and he recorded the sights and sounds of his wide-ranging journeys with an ...

The Story of Alice. Lewis Carroll and The Secret History of Wonderland | SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2015 COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD. This is the secret history of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Wonderland is p...

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...

Love | One summer's evening, two men meet up in a Dublin restaurant. Old friends, now married and with grown-up children, their lives have taken seemingly similar paths. But Joe has a secret he has to...

Clochemerle | A funny look at the social and political dynamic of French village life. Gabriel Chevallier's delightful novel Clochemerle satirizes the titanic confrontation of secular and religious fo...

Games at Twilight | 'Beautifully accomplished and memorable' The Times Set in contemporary Bombay and other cities, these stories reflect the kaleidoscope of urban life - evoking the colour, sounds an...

A Tale of Two Cities | Dickens' masterful tale of Paris, London, and revolution. It was the best of times, it was the worst of times... Lucie Manette has been separated from her father for eighteen ye...

Dancers In Mourning | When song-and-dance star Jimmy Sutane falls victim to a string of malicious practical jokes, there’s only one man who can get to the bottom of the apparent vendetta against the m...

Blackass | White skin, green eyes, red hair... Blackass Furo Wariboko - born and bred in Lagos - wakes up on the morning of his job interview to discover he has turned into a white man. As he hits the...

The Love of a Good Woman | 2021 sees all of Alice Munro's backlist reissued in a new, modern look. These editions will appeal to a broad range of literary readers WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATU...

Angels And Insects | Reissued with a beautiful new illustrative cover, two magical and timeless novellas from the Booker Prize-winning author of Possession Like A.S. Byatt's Booker Prize-winning novel...

Fraulein Schmidt and Mr Anstruther | What on earth could have induced Mr Anstruther to fall in love with Fraulein Schmidt? He is an eligible English bachelor from a good family with great expectations...

The Ministry of Fear | A detective story where the detective is implicated in the crime and the hero is an enigma to the reader and to himself. For Arthur Rowe the charity fкte was a trip back to chil...

Gun Love | Gun Love is a hypnotic story of family, community and violence. Told from the perspective of a sharp-eyed teenager, it exposes America's love affair with firearms and its painful consequenc...

Ghost Stories | Sherlock star Mark Gatiss selects and introduces chilling tales by the unsung master of the classic ghost story - E.F. Benson. There's nothing sinister about a London bus. Nothing supe...

Clayhanger | No longer a boy, not quite a man, Edwin Clayhanger stands on a canal bridge on his last day of school, and surveys the valley of Bursley and the Five Towns. Serious, good-natured and full...

A Maggot | A late work by the great master novelist John Fowles. In his prologue, John Fowles tells us that A Maggot began as a vision he had of five travellers riding with mysterious purpose through ...

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...

Black Snow | When Maxudov's bid to take his own life fails, he dramatises the novel whose failure provoked the suicide attempt. To the resentment of literary Moscow, his play is accepted by the legend...

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...

My Monticello | When the world collapses, where will you run? After rolling blackouts and epic storms engulf America, the neighbourhood of First Street, Charlottesville comes under attack by violent w...

Elsewhere, Perhaps | The Kibbutz of Metsudat Ram lies in the valley of Jordan, close to the border. Old and young, happy and discontented, the settlers go about their lives as the artillery rumbles in...

Brave New World | Far in the future, the World Controllers have created the ideal society. Through clever use of genetic engineering, brainwashing and recreational sex and drugs all its members are ha...

The Heavenly Table | Cane, Cob and Chimney Jewett are young Georgia sharecroppers held under the thumb of their God-fearing father, Pearl. When he dies unexpectedly, they set out on horseback for Cana...

The Map and the Territory | Artist Jed Martin emerges from a ten-year hiatus with good news. It has nothing to do with his broken boiler, the approach of another lamentably awkward Christmas dinner wi...

The File on H | A haunting yet humorous evocation of a society dangerously trapped in its past. Two Irish-American scholars from Harvard journey to Albania in the 1930s with a tape recorder (a 'new fa...

No Great Mischief | Winner of the International Impac Dublin Literary Award 'A brilliant and haunting novel' Daily Mail In 1779, driven out of his home, Calum MacDonald sets sail from the Scottish Hig...

The Palace of Dreams | At the heart of the Sultan's vast empire stands the mysterious Palace of Dreams. Inside, the dreams of every citizen are collected, sorted and interpreted in order to identify t...

A Life in Nature. Or How to Catch a Mole | At the age of sixteen, Marc Hamer left home with only a rucksack and started walking. By day, he observed the animals and birds. By night, he slept under hed...

Seeing | Despite the heavy rain, the officer at Polling Station 14 finds it odd that by midday on National Election day, only a handful of voters have turned out. Puzzlement swiftly escalates to shock...

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...

The Sopranos | Now a stage musical, Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour, adapted by Lee Hall (Billy Elliott, War Horse) and directed by Vicky Featherstone (Artistic Director of the Royal Court Theatre) No...

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...

What Are You Like | Anne Enright's entire backlist to be reissued in sumptuous new series style 'What is a really good novel like? This for a start' The Times When Maria turns twenty, she falls in lov...

Choke | Victor Mancini has devised a complicated scam to pay for his mother's hospital care: pretend to be choking on a piece of food in a restaurant and the person who 'saves you' will feel responsib...

Collected Stories | Melding his native Irish sensibilities to those of his adopted west-coast Scotland, these tales attend to life’s big events: love and loss, separation and violence, death and betra...

The Man Who Ate the Zoo. Frank Buckland, forgotten hero of natural history | Frank Buckland was an extraordinary man – surgeon, natural historian, popular lecturer, bestselling writer, museum curator,...

They Came Like Swallows | Elizabeth Morison is an ordinary woman. Yet, to eight-year-old Bunny, his mother is the centre of his universe. To Robert, her elder son, she is someone he must protect again...

Robinson Crusoe | Discover the legendary story of a marine adventurer shipwrecked on a desert island. Robinson Crusoe runs away from home to join the navy. After a series of adventures at sea, he is s...

In Custody | 'A remarkable piece of work. A magnificent novel' Salman Rushdie, Observer Touching and wonderfully funny, In Custody is woven around the yearnings and calamities of a small-town scholar ...

A Week in December | London, the week before Christmas, 2007. Seven wintry days to track the lives of seven characters: a hedge fund manager trying to bring off the biggest trade of his career; a prof...

The Childhood of Jesus | After crossing oceans, a man and a boy - both strangers to each other - arrive in a new land. David, the boy, has lost his mother and Simon vows to look after him. In this str...

The Far Country | A young English woman leaves her ageing parents to visit friends living in the Australian outback. She falls in love, both with the country and with Carl, a doctor and Czech refugee....

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...

Bonfire of the Vanities | An exhilarating satire of Eighties excess that captures the effervescent spirit of New York, from one of the greatest writers of modern American prose Sherman McCoy is a WASP...

Midnight Sun | When you betray the Fisherman... Jon is on the run. He has crossed Oslo's biggest crime lord. Fleeing to an isolated corner of Norway, to a mountain town so far north that the sun never...

Beijing Coma | Dai Wei lies in his bedroom, a prisoner in his body, after he was shot in the head at the Tiananmen Square protest ten years earlier and left in a coma. As his mother tends to him, and ...

The Sound of One Hand Clapping | In the winter of 1954, in a construction camp in the remote Tasmanian highlands, when Sonja Buloh was three years old and her father was drinking too much, her mother ...

A Haunted House And Other Stories | 'The window panes reflected apples, reflected roses; all the leaves were green in the glass' Nowhere are Virginia Woolf's daring experimentations with style and for...

An Uncertain Place | Commissaire Adamsberg has left Paris for a police conference in London, accompanied by anglophile Commandant Danglard and Estalere, a young sergeant. The city offers a welcome cha...

The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve. The Story that Created Us | Selected as a book of the year 2017 by The Times and Sunday Times What is it about Adam and Eve's story that fascinates us? What does it ...

Death of a River Guide | Trapped within a waterfall on the wild Franklin River, Tasmanian river guide, Aljaz Cosini, lies drowning. As the tourists he has been guiding down the river seek to save him,...

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...

The Rachel Papers | Charles Highway is every mother’s worst nightmare. Precociously intelligent, mercilessly manipulative and highly sexed, Charles devotes the last of his teenage years to bedding gir...