You’re back home after four years working abroad, new husband in tow.You’re keen to find a place of your own. But for now you’re crashing in your big brother’s spare r...
A couple on an epicurean journey across Mexico are excited by the idea of a particular ingredient, suggested by ancient rituals of human sacrifice. Precariously balanced on his throne, a king is ab...
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER‘The two main characters will captivate you as their paths are destined to cross… you won’t be able to put this one down!’Ree...
‘It is not that Ulysses excludes us; it is, rather, that it includes us in ways that no other work prepares us for. The question is not ‘what is a novel?’, but what can a no...
MEET THE SORENSON FAMILYMARILYN has somehow fallen into motherhood and spent four decades married toDAVID, who’s pretty certain he loves her more than anyone has ever loved anothe...
FROM THE MULTI-MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF CAPTAIN CORELLI'S MANDOLINAt the dawn of the 1920s, Rosie and Daniel move to Ceylon with their small daughter to start a new life, atte...
Mary is out of options. Estranged from her Evangelist family, plagued by debt collectors and beset by chronic pain, Mary signs up for a mysterious job advertised as 'The Girlfriend Experiment' (or,...
'Downright hilarious... Like watching a slow-motion car crash. Theroux possesses a fabulously nasty sense of humour' Stephen KingA riotously dysfunctional portrait of one all-American f...
Written in the 1830s and early 1840s, these comic stories tackle life behind the cold and elegant façade of the Imperial capital from the viewpoints of various characters, such as a collegia...
Shuklaji Street, in Old Bombay. In Rashid's opium room the air is thick with voices and ghosts: Hindu, Muslim, Christian. A young woman holds a long-stemmed pipe over a flame, her hair falling acro...
Evie Bird is a romance writer whose latest bestseller is being made into a Christmas movie.Duke Carlisle is a world-famous actor who has landed the role of leading man.When Evie a...
Teenager Lizzie Vogel has a new job as a dental assistant. This is not as glamorous as it sounds. At least it means mostly getting away from her alcoholic, nymphomaniacal, novel-writing mother. But...
Malaya, 1955. Lydia Cartwright returns from visiting a sick friend to an empty house. The servants are gone. The phone is dead. Where is her husband Alec? Her young daughters, Emma and Fleur?...
Essays in Love will appeal to anyone who has ever been in a relationship or confused about love. The book charts the progress of a love affair from the first kiss to argument and reconciliation, fr...
"Proust's masterpiece is one of the seminal works of the twentieth century, recording its narrator's experiences as he grows up, falls in love and lives through the First World War. A profound...
Jim and Ántonia meets as children in the wide open plains of Nebraska at the end of the nineteenth century. Jim leaves for college and a career in the east, while Ántonia stays at hom...
Mr Harding is a good man, the warden to an alms house which provides a peaceful home to twelve old men. The law, the church and the self-righteous national press all have their say in the scandal t...
Meet Your Bacteria introduces you to all of your tiny tenants, and reveals the fascinating inner workings of your body, and the importance of these usually helpful (but sometimes harmful) microbes....
A Hay Festival and The Poole VOTE 100 BOOKS for Women SelectionEffia and Esi: two sisters with two very different destinies. One sold into slavery; one a slave trader's wife. The conseq...
‘Epic . . . Rambunctious . . . Highly entertaining’ New York Times‘All we do, mija, is love. Love is the answer. Nothing stops it. Not borders. Not death.’...