Catherine Munro transforms her life when she moves to Shetland to study the hardy ponies who call this archipelago home. Over the course of her first year, she is welcomed into the rhythms and rout...
'How did I so unwittingly transform the joy of living into the great luxury of being alive?'Between 1967 and 1977, Clarice Lispector wrote weekly dispatches from her desk in Rio for the...
The winds shift nervously on the isolated plain, whispering of travellers lost and buried, whispering of witches.At first the townspeople of Cherryvale welcome the beautiful young mediu...
Ari, a free-spirited struggling comedian, likes to keep things casual, and never sleeps over after hooking up. Josh, born-and-bred Manhattanite, has ambitious plans to take the culinary world by st...
Buckingham Palace, 1951The nation is on the road to recovery after World War Two. And so is Milly Hendry.When her parents were killed in the Blitz, she was taken in by her a...
While on a year of study in Paris in 1927, Liebling acquired the friendship and tutelage of Yves Mirande, 'one of the last great gastronomes of France', beginning a joyous apprenticeship in the fin...
Down by the river, not everything is as it seems . . .Clever, nosy Phoebe Featherstone is unable to get out much, but she has a talent for uncovering her neighbours' secrets by examinin...
Shimamura is tired of the bustling city. He takes the train through the snow to the mountains of the west coast of Japan, to meet with a geisha he believes he loves. Beautiful and innocent, Komako ...
From the author of The Power, winner of the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction 2017Ronit has left London and transformed her life. She has become a cigarette-smoking, wise-cracking, New York career ...
The lives of a bereaved young woman and her neighbour who is consumed by her affair with a married man entwine in this dark, compelling and compassionate coming-of age novel.'A poignant...
When Daphne Ferber arrives in Berlin for a fresh start in a thrilling new city, the last thing she expects is to run into more drama than she left behind.Of course, she knew she'd need ...
Dee Jensen's life is about to get complicated...She's just found out that if she wants to start a family she needs to get on with it - fast. But her almost-definitely boyfriend Nat has ...
You are young, ambitious, college-educated and a feminist. Your new job is in television.To climb the ranks, you do whatever it takes:- Pull all-nighters- Lean on your power...
'Beautifully written and extraordinarily moving' SUNDAY TIMES'A powerful story of love, conscience, will and desire' OBSERVER'A poised and well-judged work' FINANCIAL TIMESA...
'A thoughtful page-turner' THE TIMES'Vast, well-plotted and gripping throughout' SPECTATOR'Richly entertaining and highly rewarding' EVENING STANDARDSeven Londoners are invi...
From the bestselling author of MALIBU RISING, DAISY JONES & THE SIX and THE SEVEN HUSBANDS OF EVELYN HUGO'It made me cry twice, and when I finished reading, I had to sit for a minut...
In this thought-provoking, original work, acclaimed political philosopher Clare Chambers argues that the unmodified body is a key political principle. While defending individuals' right to change t...
For particularly brilliant theoretical physicists like James Clerk Maxwell, Paul Dirac or Albert Einstein, the search for mathematical truths - via ever more mind-boggling numbers - led to strange ...
A bus stops on the road to Montluçon, and there two strangers meet: Tati, a steely widow, who runs the farm her late husband left behind, and Jean, an odd, quiet man with nowhere to go. Ther...
'In the Spring of 1989, shortly after my twenty-seventh birthday, as I stood in the sleet at a bus stop in Colchester, it dawned on me that I had probably, all things considered, failed in my missi...