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In 1956, toward the end of Reverend John Ames's life, he begins a letter to his young son, a kind of last testament to his remarkable forebears. '...

A powerful, compelling, vividly written Australian crime novel, perfect for fans of Peter May and Jane Harper

'Monumental . . . A wonderful book.' Peter Frankopan 'Magisterial . . . remarkable.' Guardian 'Erudite and highly readable . . . An authoritative...

'Like Robert Macfarlane re-written by Cormac McCarthy.' Telegraph 'Beckett doing Beowulf.' London Review of Books One thousand years from now, t...

Part psychological thriller and part courtroom drama, Apple Tree Yard is a dark, smart page turner. With her trademark intelligence, award-winning ...

About the Author Thomas Bernhard was born in the Netherlands to Austrian parents in 1931. He was raised in Austria and studied dramatic arts at Mo...

Which nations have launched which animals into space? Which countries have no sea views? Where were our planet's now-extinct species last sighted? ...

Review After I first read Justine in 1967, I was never the same again ... Durrell's Alexandria is a city bathed in uncommon beauty and sensuality ...

From No. 1 New York Times bestselling author Julia Quinn and television pioneer Shonda Rhimes comes a powerful and romantic novel of Bridgerton's Q...

'[I was] completely transported . . . so sparely and yet vividly told. I admired it immensely' Clare Chambers 'Aroa Moreno Durán writes with a rar...

Review This book is complete perfection -- Stephen Fry Poised and pitch-perfect throughout ― Mail on Sunday Dense, thought-provoking, sensitive,...

'HANRAHAN HAS AN ASTONISHING IMAGINATION' Peter McLean, author of Priest of Bones With his acclaimed debut, The Gutter Prayer, Gareth Hanrahan int...

About the Author Lorrie Moore, after serving for almost three decades as the Delmore Schwartz Professor in the Humanities at the University of Wis...

'She [Bessie Smith] showed me the air and taught me how to fill it ... she's the reason I started singing, really' - Janis Joplin '[Jackie Kay] of...

Review 'Sweeping, magnificently detailed and ambitious' (The Sunday Times ) 'Fast-paced narrative and utterly convincing sense of place' (Guardia...

Product Description In the spring of 1453, the Ottoman Turks advanced on Constantinople in pursuit of an ancient Islamic dream: capturing the thou...

These four last prose fictions by Samuel Beckett were originally published individually, and their composition spanned the final decade of his life...

THE TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLER SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE Drowned. Buried by sand. Decimated by plague. Plunged off a cliff. This is the f...

A Booker-longlisted novel of art, absence, loss and passion, from Britain's most exciting contemporary writer.Moving between Italy and England, the...

Now a major Channel 5 series 'The Queen of Crime.' New York Times Combe Island off the Cornish coast is a restful retreat for the rich and the po...

No.1 bestselling writer Josephine Cox is 'hailed quite rightly as a gifted writer in the tradition of Catherine Cookson' (Manchester Evening News)....

Bushnell's beat is that demi-monde of nightclubs, bars, restaurants and parties where the rich come into contact with the infamous, the famous with...

Welcome to Mexico City, an oasis in a sea of vampires. Domingo, a lonely garbage-collecting street kid, is just trying to survive its heavily polic...

'Powerful and gripping... Go�i [is] impressively relentless: leaving no discoverable stone unturned' Philippe Sands, author of The Ratline As ...

Harry Bosch is back in Homicide after disciplinary leave. But his first case proves to be one of the most difficult. In the wooded hills overlookin...

An international bestseller and contemporary classic: a 2013 Pulitzer Prize Finalist. Alaska, the 1920s. Jack and Mabel have staked everything on a...

Moorcock's second great London novel - and thematic sequel to MOTHER LONDON - returns to print in a newly revised edition. The death of Princess D...

This book is Winner Of The Folio Prize 2015. For eight-year-old Ajay and his older brother Birju, life in Dehli in the late 1970s follows a comfort...

The prizewinning debut from Britain's most exciting contemporary novelist. In a remote dale in a northern English county, a centuries-old rural co...

Review A classic. ― Financial Times Ranks among the masterpieces of British crime writing. -- Phillip Ziegler ― Spectator Books of the Year The ...

Nariman Vakeel, a seventy-nine-year-old Parsi widower, beset by Parkinson's disease and haunted by memories of the past, lives in a once-elegant ap...

Product Description Set in rural Ireland, John McGahern's second novel is about adolescence and a guilty, yet uncontrollable sexuality that is con...

Review Every so often a writer blasts a hole through a wall. Geovani Martins is that writer. The Sun on My Head is a blaze of heat, love and r...

Review Extence keeps the twists and turns coming, full of mordant wit, until the bitter end. ― Daily Mail The Empathy Problem is delightful, writ...

'One of the greatest anti-heroes ever written' LEE CHILD As Berlin prepares for the 1936 Olympic Games, Bernie is caught between violently opposin...

Review Superb ― Sunday Express Praise for E. S. Thomson: Vivid, pungent and perilous -- Chris Brookmyre Gothic. Gory. Glorious . . . E. S. Thom...

How do you catch a killer who leaves no trace? A victim killed with a single, precise stab to the heart appears at first glance to be a robbery go...

Sookie comes to the rescue of a naked, amnesiac vampire - and ends up in the middle of a war between witches, werewolves and vampires! Sookie Stack...

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