'Vonnegut is George Orwell, Dr Caligari and Flash Gordon compounded into one writer...a zany but moral mad scientist' TimeA diabolical government asserts control by eliminating orgasms....
‘The best novel I’ve encountered this year, brilliant and funny and profound, producing some of the most complex, fascinating characters I’ve ever known. As far as I’m conce...
On the day Nina and Conrad Best move into their new home in picture-perfect Willow Close, a body is discovered.The residents gather around a police cordon - one of their neighbours has ...
Max Einstein is never going to be your average 12-year-old kid. She . . .is on the run from a group of villainstalks to Albert Einsteinspends time searching for information on her...
The daughter of a Buddhist priest, Tsuneno was born in 1804 in a village in Japan's snow country and was expected to lead a life much like her mother's. Instead - after three divorces and with a te...
Every day, Maria Dolz stops for breakfast at the same café. And every day she enjoys watching a handsome couple who follow the same routine. Then one day they aren't there, and she feels obs...
Did you know?Nearly 70% of Britain's homeless are women.There are more men called Dave running the UK's top 100 companies than there are women altogether.Women o...
‘It is Hustvedt’s gift to write with exemplary clarity of what is by necessity unclear.’ Hilary Mantel, GuardianFeminist philosophy meets family memoir in a fresh essa...
For most of human history, the seas and oceans have been the main means of long-distance trade and communication between peoples - for the spread of ideas and religion as well as commerce. This boo...
Murderers and mourners, mothers and children, lovers and innocent bystanders – locked in the embrace of an ominous and darkly beautiful web, their fates all converge through the eleven storie...
As befits more than twenty years in Hollywood, Oscar-winning screenwriter William Goldman's sparkling memoir is as entertaining as many of the films he has helped to create. From the writer of Butc...
"**Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature**The world's finest living short story writer turns to her family for inspiration; and what follows is a fictionalised, brilliantly imagined ve...
When Emma leaves her friend Abi at a party in the woods, she believes that their lives are just beginning. Many things will happen that night, but Emma will never see her friend again.W...
Thirty-eight years old, she lives on the twenty-five-acre Hope Farm in Buckinghamshire, surrounded by (mostly) four-legged friends and rolling hills. There’s Anthony the anti-social sheep, Ti...
In a Shepherd's Bush bedsit, Amelia White dreams of being a reporter. The closest she's come is selling advertising in the local paper.Until the fateful day she stumbles on a truly shoc...
Thirty years ago, a child was found in the New Jersey backwoods.He had been living a feral existence, with no memory of how he got there or even who he is. Everyone just calls him Wilde.
This paperback edition features EPIC fluorescent sprayed edges!!Big changes are in store for Greg Heffley and his family. They are making home improvements!But with unwelcom...
In North Devon, where the rivers Taw and Torridge converge and run into the sea, Detective Matthew Venn stands outside the church as his father's funeral takes place. The day Matthew turned his bac...
Barbed, witty, revealing and entertaining, Too Famous could be an instant classic.Bestselling author of Fire and Fury, Siege and Landslide and chronicler of the Trump White House Michae...