Fiction books

About the Author James Hamilton-Paterson is the author of the bestselling Empire of the Clouds, which was hailed as a classic account of the golde...

Review "[A] much needed history." --Times Literary Supplement"Highly readable . . . Rankin has chosen an unusual vantage point to view the wid...

In Girl in a Band Kim Gordon, founding member of Sonic Youth and role model for a generation of women, tells her story. She writes frankly about he...

In his first book with Faber, Hernandez tells the untold stories of these American comics legends' youth, and portrays the reality of life in a lar...

Product Description In 1999, Underworld's Karl Hyde began writing a public diary. Every day since then, Hyde has documented his thoughts, lyrical ...

Review All the time that the tension builds, so too does the detail in Johnstone's picture of a once-happy family ground down by sorrow...I would ...

About the Author Kazuo Ishiguro was born in Nagasaki, Japan, in 1954 and moved to Britain at the age of five. His nine works of fiction have earne...

Review Adorning the cover ... is a picture of a decrepit typewriter missing multiple letters - a fitting image for a novel that thrives on explori...

Limehouse, 1880: Dancing girls are going missing from 'Paradise' - the criminal manor with ruthless efficiency by the ferocious Lady Ginger. Sevent...

Review Beautifully crafted, and so finely balanced that she holds the reader right up against the tender humanity of her characters. --Guardian C...

About the Author Robert Fordyce Aickman was born in 1914 in London. He was married to Edith Ray Gregorson from 1941 to 1957. In 1946 the couple, a...

Review Despite the title, this is not a girlie book, but a poetic, evocative exploration of music and identity. Greenlaw's preferences range f...

Review This is a fast-paced, intelligent and enjoyable novel, an absolute pleasure to read. Highly recommended ― Historical Novel Society ...

About the Author Luke Jennings is the dance critic for The Observer and has written extensively about dance and contemporary culture for the New Y...

Review An elegance and cunning reminiscent of Henry James. ― New York Times Book ReviewMasterly. ― Daily TelegraphBrilliant . . . Guilt and bl...

Product Description Think 'Woodstock' and the mind turns to the seminal 1969 festival. But Woodstock itself was over sixty miles away, and already...

The sport of boxing is dying in a last explosion of dollars. Its beleaguered performers are reaching up for a last payday with bravery, one-liners ...

Book Description The first major book on the most colossal tastemaker in British pop history since Margrave of the Marshes Product Description G...

About the Author Martin McDonagh's first play, The Beauty Queen of Leenane, was nominated for six Tony awards, of which it won four, and the Laure...

For fans of The Passenger, this thrilling tale of an ex-Nazi surgeon hiding in plain sight in 1960s London by the celebrated filmmaker is a lost no...

'This extraordinary tale of rivalry and celluloid . . . has fascinated cin�astes for years.' Kathryn Hughes, Sunday Times 'Illuminating and thrill...

Reissued with stunning artwork by Leanne Shapton and a new afterword by Ben Lerner, Wittgenstein's Nephew is a memento mori of restless genius. It...

THE MULTIMILLION-COPY BESTSELLING ADAM DALGLIESH SERIES FROM THE 'QUEEN OF ENGLISH CRIME' (Guardian) 'A legend.' VAL MCDERMID 'P. D. James took th...

Now a major Channel 5 series 'The Queen of Crime.' New York Times Commander Adam Dalgliesh is already acquainted with the Dupayne Museum in Hamps...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2023 THE SUNDAY TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR 'Profoundly moving.' EDMUND DE WAAL 'A wo...

About the Author Rachel Cusk is the author of the Outline trilogy, the memoirs A Life's Work and Aftermath, and several other works of fiction and...

Khuku, a housewife, is irritated with the Muslims because their call to prayer wakes her up early every morning; her husband, a retired businessman...

Review The few improbabilities are effectively disguised by the sublime quality of James's writing. She never puts a word wrong...she is the unriv...

Review One of the foremost dramatic chroniclers of modern British life. Line by line, this is the best written of all Marber's plays. You want to ...

Review 'What is revealed in this small but powerful affecting book is a deeper insight than any biography could give into what motivated Brendel's...

THE PERFECT INTORDUCTION TO THE MULTIMILLION-COPY BESTSELLING ADAM DALGLEISH SERIES FROM THE 'QUEEN OF ENGLISH CRIME' (GUARDIAN) 'A legend.' VAL M...

Review An incredible trip . . . both educative and gripping. -- Allan Jones ― Uncut A thoroughly enjoyable read and likely to remain the best-wri...

Review An elegant, humorous, diligently researched labour of love. ― Uncut If you only buy one account of electronica, make it this . . . Enthral...

About the Author Gordon Burn was the author of four novels, Alma Cogan (winner of the Whitbread First Novel Prize), Fullalove, The North of Englan...

Review Funny and poignant . . . a pleasure to read. ― Sunday Telegraph The Country Life has a moral core, meticulously disguised by comedy. Cusk ...

'The most exhilarating surge of language, style and sordid English manners [in] literature.' DBC Pierre 'A wild, passionate, brilliantly gaudy and...

'Intricately, intimately written, with some wonderful prose and delicate dialogue.' Guardian 'A loving and nuanced portrait of a family's myriad fu...

This provocative collection of short stories charts the growth of a generation from the liberating irreverence of the late 1970s to the dilemmas of...

The Body is a dazzling collection of fiction from Hanif Kureishi, beginning with a novella that delves into the concept of identity, and its root i...

Once upon a time there was a little engine. Her name was CHOO CHOO. The story of a beautiful little steam train. She pulls carriages from the city...