We live in epoch-making times. The changes we humans have made in recent decades have altered our world beyond anything it has experienced in its...
Features a man who finds himself surrounded by women who are becoming pale, silent and smaller, a woman's intimate life is strangely dominated by the...
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London 1972. Luke is dazzled by the city. It seems a world away from the provincial town he has fled along with his own troubled...
Addresses itself to the central lacuna of twentieth century thought: the indulgence of communism by intellectuals of the West. In between the personal beginning and...
Deep within the Balou mountains lies a small rural town populated by disabled people. Blind, deaf and disfigured, the 197 citizens of the Village of...
FIVE DREAMS OF FAME Glasgow, 1965. Jack Mackay dares not imagine a life of predictability and routine. The headstrong seventeen-year-old has one thing on...
'The Death of Mrs Westaway is Ruth Ware's best: a dark and dramatic thriller, part murder mystery, part family drama, altogether riveting' AJ FINN, bestselling...
In the ninety-ninth district of a sprawling labour camp, the Author, Musician, Scholar, Theologian and Technician - and hundreds just like them - are undergoing...
Presents an exchange between a writer with a longstanding interest in moral psychology and a psychotherapist with a training in literary studies. In this book,...
Features the essays that chart some of the author's experiences or remembrances: his youthful love of a particular London bus route that evolves into a...
While Bruce Chatwin is best known as a master of travel literature, his three acclaimed novels must not be overlooked. Here we see a writer...
Thrilling' BILL BRYSON 'Brilliant' TIM SPECTOR 'Extraordinary' ALICE ROBERTS Welcome to a revolution in the science of you - this is the landmark new book...
An unremitting powerhouse of a novel that marks the arrival of a major new talent. Trainspotting is a loosely knotted string of jagged, dislocated tales...
Hear the Wind Sing is Murakami's first novel, available for the first time in English outside Japan. In Hear the Wind Sing the narrator is...
Life Before Man explores the lives of three people imprisoned by walls of their own construction and in thrall to the tragicomedy we call love....
One summer's evening, two men meet up in a Dublin restaurant. Old friends, now married and with grown-up children, their lives have taken seemingly similar...