Fiction books

About the Author Andrew Lambert is Laughton Professor of Naval History at King's College London. His books include Nelson: Britannia's God of War,...

Anthony Minghella, the writer and director behind films like Truly Madly Deeply, The English Patient and The Talented Mr Ripley, here explores his ...

About the Author Adam Mars-Jones's first book of stories, Lantern Lecture, was published in 1981 and won a Somerset Maugham Award. In 1983 and aga...

Product Description Widely considered the darkest and most intriguing of the central Star Wars trilogy, The Empire Strikes Back deepens the explor...

A colourful, fact-filled introduction to the world of birds. Where are all those swallows going? Let’s join them on their long journey south and l...

** From the author of Mayflies ** 'A beautiful, elegaic work . . . This should be required reading for everybody.' Ian Rankin Shortlisted for the...

Don Rigoberto - by day a grey insurance executive, by night a pornographer and sexual enthusiast - misses Lucrecia, his estranged second wife. The ...

Dirty Havana Trilogy tells the story of Pedro Juan, an ex-radio journalist who wanders from one odd job to the next, half-disgusted and half-fascin...

About the Author William Gay was born in Hohenwald, Tennessee. After high school, he joined the United States Navy and served during the Vietnam W...

OLD GOD'S TIME (MARCH 2023), SEBASTIAN BARRY'S STUNNING NEW NOVEL, AVAILABLE TO PRE-ORDER NOW Annie Dunne and her cousin Sarah live and work on a ...

Product Description A little boy invents many stories with the help of 10 geometrical patterns. One day, he creates a hat, but the hat flies away ...

Ratcatcher was the brilliant feature-film debut of the young Scotswoman Lynne Ramsay, one of the finest new talents in world cinema. It is the summ...

This is the epic story of life on Earth, uniquely retold through someof the most significant fossils ever found. The book travels through 3.5 bill...

About the Author Jon Savage is the author of England's Dreaming: Sex Pistols and Punk Rock and Teenage: The Creation of Youth, 1875-1945. He is th...

Amazon Review What do most of us know of the Hundred Years War? The famous victories at Agincourt, Crecy and Poitiers and that it actually went on...

About the Author Luca Turin was born in 1953 and educated in France, Italy and the UK. He holds a Ph.D. in biophysics from the University of Londo...

From the author of Mayflies 'There is no page on which there is not something surprising or quotable or pleasurable of thought-provoking.' Hilary ...

This book is a perceptive and critical account of the first 75 years of The Royal Ballet, tracing the company's growth, and its great cultural impo...

Cedilla continues the history of John Cromer ("adventures" sounds rather too hectic) begun by Pilcrow, described by the London Review of Books as "...

'Pure pleasure.' Evening Standard 'An absolute treat . . . wittily and slyly written.' Euro Crime AN AURELIO ZEN MYSTERY When the corpse of the s...

'Escapism of a high order.' INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY 'A slyly intelligent page turner.' PUBLISHERS WEEKLY AN AURELIO ZEN MYSTERY When a group of Aus...

'An unknown place.' This was what Michael Frayn's children called the shadowy landscape of the past from which their family had emerged. Shortliste...

October 1982: ABC, Culture Club, Shalamar and Survivor dominate the top twenty when the Pogues barrel out from the backstreets of King's Cross, a f...

Tragedy at Law follows a rather self-important High Court judge, Mr Justice Barber, as he moves from town to town presiding over cases in the South...

'Unputdownable.' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH 'A complete inversion of the standard detective genre.' GUARDIAN AN AURELIO ZEN MYSTERY Inspector Zen is back, ...

Product Description 'I lost my own father at 12 yr. of age and know what it is to be raised on lies and silence...' To the authorities in pursuit...

About the Author Chibundu Onuzo was born in Lagos, Nigeria in 1991. Her first novel, The Spider King's Daughter, won a Betty Trask Award, was ...

The bestselling debut novel from a writer heralded as the twenty-first-century W. G. Sebald. A haunting novel about national identity, race, liber...

Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature 'One of the greatest and most prophetic of political novelists.' Guardian Books of the Year 'Inspired and...

About the Author Samuel Beckett was born in Dublin in 1906 and graduated from Trinity College. He settled in Paris in 1937, after travels in Germa...

Malcolm Warren, a young but valetudinarian stockbroker, is looking forward to a dull weekend when a telegram summons him to stay with his capriciou...

Auster's unforgettable coming-of-age tale from the author of contemporary classic The New York Trilogy: 'a literary voice for the ages' (Guardian) ...

Product Description That They May Face the Rising Sun was the last novel from John McGahern, one of Ireland's greatest novelists. Joe and Kate Ru...

'Spellbinding . . . superb.' WASHINGTON POST 'Emotionally gripping and defiantly original.' ITALIAN MYSTERIES AN AURELIO ZEN MYSTERY Zen finally ...

I was supposed to be having the time of my life. When Esther Greenwood wins an internship on a New York fashion magazine in 1953, she is elated, b...

About the Author Andrew Martin is a journalist and novelist. His critically praised 'Jim Stringer' series began withThe Necropolis Railway in 2002...

'A rollicking good tale.' INDEPENDENT 'A first-rate mystery.' WASHINGTON POST AN AURELIO ZEN MYSTERY Aurelio Zen returns to his native Venice in ...

Product Description Disco emerged from the fall-out of the Black Power Movement and an almost exclusively gay scene in a blaze of poppers, strobe ...