No longer a boy, not quite a man, Edwin Clayhanger stands on a canal bridge on his last day of school, and surveys the…

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`An extraordinary book of real passionate research' Edmund de WaalIn 1945, Ezra Pound was due to stand trial for treason for…

Touching the Void is the heart-stopping account of Joe Simpson's terrifying adventure in the Peruvian Andes. He and his…

Mann's short stories explore his abiding interest in the split nature of humanity and the discordance of the world it…

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Doctor Thorne was considered by Trollope to be the best of his works - a profound examination of the relationship between…

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The first novel in the Paddy Meehan series, from the two-time winner of the Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year…

How does it feel to hold someone's life in your hands? Startling and honest, her account combines a fierce sense of human…

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"An eerie and virtuosic debut" (Helen Phillips, author of The Need) about a paranormal investigations TV show that loses…

TRANSLATED BY EDITH GROSSMANWidely regarded as the world's first modern novel, and one of the funniest and most tragic books…

When a travelling salesman is found murdered in a basement flat, killed by a bullet from a Colt .45, the police initially…

VINTAGE JAPANESE CLASSICS - five masterpieces of Japanese fiction in gorgeous new gift editions. In the Tokyo suburbs four…

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From the author of the breakout novel Thistlefoot: a collection of dark fairytales and fractured folklore exploring how our…

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The suspenseful sequel to The Murder of Mr. Wickham, which sees Jonathan Darcy and Juliet Tilney reunited, and with another…

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From 2015 to 2017, Peter Sagan achieved the seemingly impossible: he won three road race World Championships in a row,…

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WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY GEOFF DYERThe world and his mistress are at Jay Gatsby's party. But Gatsby stands apart from the…

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From the vast lore surrounding King Arthur, Camelot, and the Knights of the Round Table, comes an anthology of gender-bent,…

A VINTAGE MURDER MYSTERYRediscover Gladys Mitchell - one of the 'Big Three' female crime fiction writers alongside Agatha…

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In this series of moving recollections involving both his childhood and his work as a mature artist, John Fowles explains…

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Set in Jaffa in between 1947 and 1951, this “fable-like historical novel of young love ... darkly humorous and touching”…

A heart-breaking suspense which deals with love in all its forms.\'Gytha Lodge, author of She Lies in Wait\'Intriguing,…

One night in August 1323 a captive rebel baron, Sir Roger Mortimer, drugged his guards and escaped from the Tower of London.…

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these stories help amplify Williams's tragic vision, for like the plays, they underline his preoccupation and insight into…

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WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY SIMON CALLOWIn 1939, as Europe approaches war, Isherwood, an instinctive pacifist, travels west…

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** BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week **Shark Drunk is, in part, the tale of two men in a very small boat on the trail of a very…

WINNER OF THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARDA poignant and moving account of the author's search for the man his…

Believing they were being taken to a better camp, Belgrade\'s Jews would climb into the truck with a sense of relief.…

Virginia Woolf began writing reviews for the Guardian 'to make a few pence' from her father's death in 1904, and continued…

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When Spurs legend John White was killed by a bolt of lightning in 1964, the football world was rocked by the tragedy. To…

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INCLUDES A READING GUIDEToru Okada's cat has disappeared and this has unsettled his wife, who is herself growing more…

Virginia Woolf was a close friend of Roger Fry for many years - after his death she wrote this loving account of his passion…

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WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY SATHNAM SANGHERAYou might find it hard to imagine that those stout ageing spinsters living quietly…

From the author of the Sunday Times Number One Bestseller Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White HouseRupert Murdoch is one…

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A group of travellers chance to meet, first in a castle, then a tavern. Their powers of speech are magically taken from them…

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From the age of 21, everything he wrote was shaped by the urgency of a dying man's testament - his witness, the quintessence…

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Winner of the 2014 Duff Cooper PrizeWinner of the 2015 Welsh Book of the Year AwardShortlisted for the 2015 James Tait Black…

The greatest sports stars characterise their times. Tim Adams sets out to explore what it might have meant to be John…

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TWO LOST HOURS ABOARD A UFO—THE ABDUCTION OF BETTY AND BARNEY HILL • One of the most extraordinary UFO tales of our time—a…

Life and Fate is an epic tale of a country told through the fate of a single family, the Shaposhnikovs. As the battle of…

The radical, Pulitzer Prize-winning account of Alex Haley's own twelve-year search for his family's origins: a powerful…

His companions - who do know - leave the girl to die. When Turner travels to the remote mining town that Margot owns -…

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This translation will show that you don't read War and Peace, you live it' The TimesTolstoy's enthralling epic depicts…

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An anthology of gender-bent, queered, race-bent, and inclusive retellings from the enchanting and eternally popular world of…

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When Simon Yates cut the rope and sent his friend plummeting to an ordeal few mountaineers can have contemplated, the…

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The great maritime state of Orsenna has long been lulled by settled peace and prosperity. It is three hundred years since it…