From one of our most provocative literary talents, a novel of haunting metaphysical suspense'This is a story about what might happen when a woman takes charge... A glorious visceral mys...
THE ACCLAIMED TRANSLATION BY RICHARD PEVEAR AND LARISSA VOLOKHONSKY. „If you’ve never read it, now is the moment. This translation will show that you don’t read War and Peace, you...
When Rowan comes across the advert, it seems too good to be true: a live-in nanny position, with an extremely generous salary.What she doesn't know is that she's stepping into a nightma...
Discover this beautiful and charming classic book behind the new major film.'Rich or poor, we will keep together and be happy in one another'Christmas won't be the same this...
'I'm alive inside. A bird is my heart. Mama and Daddy is not win. I'm winning.'This is the story of Precious, a sixteen-year-old illiterate Black girl who has never been out of Harlem. ...
'She's no good, that girl. Much too individualistic'This is the story of Fenfang who, determined to carve out a life more independent than her provincial roots, gets a job as a film ext...
Agatha Christie called her ‘a shining light’. Have you discovered Margery Allingham, the 'true queen' of the classic murder mystery?A fog is creeping through the weary stree...
The crime: Reykjavík, August 1941. When a travelling salesman is found murdered in a basement flat, the police initially suspect a member of the Allied occupation force.The suspe...
London, 1941. The city is in blackout and an enemy is hiding in plain sight.Jack Hoste has become entangled in a national treachery. His mission: to locate the most dangerous Nazi agent...
A stunning bespoke gift package featuring an iconic design from the prize-winning artist, Noma Bar, eye-catching sprayed edges and ribbon. The perfect present for those who like their beauty with a...
Singer, a thirty-four-year-old recently trained librarian, arrives by train in the small town of Notodden to begin a new and anonymous life. He falls in love with Merete, a ceramicist, and moves in...
Halfway through life, you find yourself lost, unsure of the right path. Greed, deception and pride have led you away from the ideals and dreams you cherished in younger days. How do you go on?
Sonoko Kakiuchi is a cultured Osaka lady in an uninspiring marriage. When she decides to take an art class in town she meets the extraordinary Mitsuko, a woman as beautiful and charismatic as she i...
From the award-winning translators of Crime and Punishment, Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky.Dostoevsky first conceived of this book as a 'novel-pamphlet' in which he intended to ...
Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize 2020, an enthralling Orwellian novel about the terrors of state surveillance from one of Japan's greatest writers.'Beautiful... Haunting' ...
It is 1945, and London is still reeling from the Blitz. 14-year-old Nathaniel and his sister, Rachel, are apparently abandoned by their parents, left in the care of an enigmatic figure named The Mo...
When Henry James died he left behind a series of notebooks filled with ideas for novels and stories that he never wrote. Now ten of our best contemporary authors and James enthusiasts have written ...
Revealing the surprising roots of lasting happiness, The Sweet Spot by pre-eminent psychologist Paul Bloom explains why suffering is an essential source of both pleasure and meaning in our lives.
'A vital book about dying. Awe-inspiring and exquisite. Obligatory reading for the living' Nigella LawsonAt the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a decade's training as a ne...
When the mysterious and beautiful young widow Helen Graham becomes the new tenant at Wildfell Hall rumours immediately begin to swirl around her. As her neighbour Gilbert Markham comes to discover,...