In the parched soil of Provence, a fifth gospel has been discovered, Mary Magdalene's account of Jesus' teaching and her…

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He was Britain's most wanted man. He spent seven years in America's toughest penitentiary. You'll like him. During the mid…

In the summer of 1936, before the outbreak of the Civil War that plunged Spain into three tears of agony and terror,…

The author was born and brought up in the Forest of Dean. This title presents his personal study of that small area - its…

\nWe fall down laughing, fall apart, fall away, we fall prey to things, fall from grace, fall in love.\n…

0n 26 March 2020, a new law appeared. In eleven pages it locked down tens of millions of people, confined us to our homes,…

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In 1975, on the eve of May Day, secret police sealed off a zoo in a small Czechoslovakian town and ordered the destruction…

Two men - Jay and Ben - sit in a Washington hotel room. Well, Ben tries feebly to reason or cajole, while Jay rants and…

In the first part are poems of great satirical comedy and also of great passion and indignation, and in the second part,…

Perfectly preserving the tone and mood of the novel whilst condensing it into two acts, David Malouf, with the gift for…

Born in pre-Revolutionary China and brought up in the Midlands, Esther Cheo Ying returned to China in 1949 after a traumatic…

The stories in this collection move from Malaya to America and England, and include some of Maugham's most famous tales; In…

The iconic writer's travel log from the uncharted shores of West Africa.…

Deep in limestone country, at the corner of Wiltshire, Oxfordshire and Gloucestershire, lies the village of Coleshill. This…

\nFrom the Booker-shortlisted author of Narcopolis, in prose of extraordinary power, a novel about the women whose roles…

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Come bathe in stew, and dine on meals of eels or worms or jellied gnats, See shoes and ships and sealing wax and fuzzy bears…

From the Pulitzer Prize winning author of Guns, Germs and SteelMore than 98 % of human genes are shared with two species of…

Adrian Ludlow, a novelist with a distinguished reputation and a book on the 'A' level syllabus, is now seeking obscurity in…

Set in the rural French town in Burgundy that would also form the backdrop to the bestselling Suite Francaise, this title…

This book is the remarkable story of his experiences in the prison camp, but it is also a meditation on the morality of the…

'My first mistake was to be heterosexual'. Such is one of the complaints in conversations between Henry Hart - who is a…

In Banon, a small, peaceful village in upper Provence, the local community's principal source of income is the cultivation…

Kinky Friedman, the original Texas Jewboy, takes us on a rollicking, rock-and-rolling tour of his favourite city: Austin.…

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\nA powerful and gripping novel about love, loyalty and obsession set during WWI and the Irish War of Independence. Annie,…

\nAnd isn\'t growing up for everyone a more or less successful attempt to overcome their conditioning and see clearly, with…

Beautiful, disturbing and a pleasure to read, Ruth Padel's new poems are her most ambitious yet, adding animal legend and…

A glorious cast of animals and birds, as well as humans, relate the magical stories that form the plot of Manuel Rivas's…

Alma slowly recovers through a brief love affair with an Aboriginal artist, and both women become involved with the Angel…

In a country recovering from a brutal and divisive civil war, a young boy, Jamie, is knocked off his bike and dies in a city…