In over a year of on-the-ground reportage, Washington Post writer Wesley Lowery traveled across the US to uncover life inside the most heavily policed, if otherwise neglected, corners of America to...
Cleo writes about love stories every day. She just isn't living one of her own.When the editor of her dating column asks her to marry herself on a remote Irish island - a sensational pi...
If you leave a door half-open, soon you'll hear the whispers spoken . . .Still devastated after the loss of his wife, Tom Kennedy and his young son Jake move to the sleepy village of Fe...
Milena, an obedient teenager, has to team up with the supernatural creatures she was taught to fear in order to escape the people she once loved...In a world where humans must hide unde...
Be honest: if your job didn't exist, would anybody miss it? Have you ever wondered why not? Up to 40% of us secretly believe our jobs probably aren't necessary. In other words: they are bullshit jo...
Louise wakes up. Her head aches, her mouth is dry, her memory is fuzzy. But she suspects she's done something bad.She rolls over towards her husband, Niall. The man who, until recently,...
Abi Holland considers herself lucky.She's happily married, and her oldest daughter, Eva, is all set for a place at a top university.She just can't help but worry about Beth....
Clear, bright, burnished ... the moods that it expresses are a true kind of poetry' The New York TimesTracing the lives of a group of friends, The Waves follows their development from c...
'An instantly gripping page-turner' Sunday Independent Life MagazineA young woman's body floats in the Dubai marina. Her death alters the fates of six people, each one striving for a be...
We will take on any case, solve any crime, uncover any secret.We are Private. And we're the best.In Afghanistan, a US Special Forces pilot is shot down during a covert mission.
'It is hard to imagine a finer account, both of the sweep of Italy's wars, and of the characters caught up in them' Caroline Moorhead, The GuardianFrom an acclaimed military historian, ...
One sunny spring morning in the 1970s, an unlikely Englishman set out on a pilgrimage that would take him across the entire length of Japan. Travelling only along small back roads, Alan Booth trave...
In Utopia, Thomas More gives us a traveller's account of a newly discovered island where the inhabitants enjoy a social order based on natural reason and justice, and human fulfilment is open to al...
The best-loved and most widely read of all Japanese poetry collections, the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu contains 100 short poems on nature, the seasons, travel, and, above all, love. Dating back to the se...
'One of the greatest elegies in the English language, a book which transcends time' Margaret DrabbleTo the Lighthouse is at once a vivid impressionistic depiction of a family, the Ramse...
Childhood friends and cousins Leo and Alice had imagined their whole lives playing out on their beloved Devon beach. But one night when they are teens, sitting on the sand beneath the stars, Alice ...
'A masterpiece in every sense' Daily MailThe Drones club's in peril. Gussie's in love. Spode's on the warpath. And His Majesty's Government needs a favour. Thank goodness Bertie Wooster is ba...
You never forget your first case.Officer Walter O'Brien is called to a murder scene on his first night with Detroit PD. A terrified young woman has bludgeoned her attacker with shocking...
In Britain, imperialism is everywhere - though we often choose not to see it. From the way we travel and the foundation of the NHS to the nature of our racism and wealth, it is central to the way w...
Born to swim thousands of miles in the ocean, the giant sea turtles are now trapped in a tank of golden-green water at London Zoo. But not for much longer. Two lonely people, a bookseller and a chi...