Abacus

When George Alagiah was dropped off at a Hampshire boarding school as a child back in 1967 he was confronted with an extreme version of the private...

Review This is a small, wise book of small prose miracles . . . It is a larger miracle in this way: it makes us feel we see Johnson and his fr...

Review A brilliant, painful account of a doomed love affair. While the storm clouds are gathering, the teller of the story belives the picnic ...

Review Holden is the best possible guide to the new worlds of poker. He has seen it before, and lived it ― Telegraph It's Holden's effortless pro...

Review Riotous . . . [those seeking wisdom and insight] will be gripped, astonished and profoundly moved ― Sunday Times A thoughtful, funny and h...

The dramatic and shocking events of the Peasants' Revolt of 1381 are to be the backdrop to Juliet Barker's latest book: a snapshot of what everyday...

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Product Description The beautiful, spoiled and bored Olivia, married to a civil servant, outrages society in the tiny, suffocating town of Sa...

Product Description Ibrahim Al-Brehm is a respectable husband a police inspector on Jeddah's murder squad. But for the past year, he has been hav...

Review Everything about [McCall Smith] is appealing. He's just full of delight - it just bubbles out of him ― Sunday Herald The hypnotic ease of ...

Review A very special little book. I absolutely loved it, and I find myself still thinking about Sprout. She embodies all the best characteristics...

Review Exactly what you want from a history of the boffins and technological pioneers of the First World War. There are bluff military adventu...

Review You-Jeong Jeong is a certified international phenomenon . . . That Jeong has actually been at the top of her game for a long time is ab...

The riveting story of the hundred-year intelligence war between Russia and the West with lessons for our new superpower conflict with China 'A mas...

Review A genuinely fresh perspective . . . shocking in its rawness . . . achieves the almost impossible feat of capturing something of the excess ...

Review Tallis writes with clarity and wit Tallis has distilled a wide range of psychological writing without oversimplifying the insights or redu...

Review Magnificent ― The GUARDIAN A superb achievment, incisive, illuminating and readable ― Sunday TIMES A superbly rich and erudite portrait o...

Review A heart-warming and sweet story of small-town life and self-discovery ― Vanessa Greene, author of The Vintage Teacup ClubAn exquisitely...

Review Bainbridge's account of the horribly familiar story is both fresh and sure-footed. The power of her imagination, her clarity of express...

This wonderful novel showing Beryl Bainbridge at her darkly comic best - out for the first time as an Abacus paperback.

Product Description This house has been a regular presence in my life for as long as I can remember. My heart has sunk a little every time I walk...

Review This novel is a perfect killing machine of flesh, bone, blood and cartilage. The story of the Crocodile will make you tremble to your v...

Product Description 'The book I wish I'd written . . . Witty, chilling, every word in place' Hilary Mantel, GuardianWartime Liverpool is a pl...