'God, when will you create a woman who will be fulfilled in herself, a full human being, not anybody's appendage?... When will I be free?'There is no greater honour for a woman in an...
Ryan Giggs first played for Manchester United in the season before the Premiership began; back when Bryan Robson was still captain. He took possession of United's left wing and never loosened...
Davis shows how the compatibility gene is radically transforming our knowledge of the way our bodies work - and is having profound consequences for medical research and ethics. Looking to the...
Signifying Rappers is a fun and quirky discovery for any fan of David Foster Wallace or Hip-hop. Signifying Rappers is an old-school classic from David Foster Wallace and his friend and room-mate...
A revelatory and exhilarating tour de force, Nicholas Ostler's "The Last Lingua Franca: The Rise and Fall of World Languages" explores the rise of a linguistic diversity we could never...
Written żeby a renowned "New Yorker" journalist, this looks at the lives of those who are willing to sacrifice themselves for others, such as a donor who gives a kidney to a complete...
In 2014, Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba raised $25 billion in the world's biggest ever initial public offering. Since then, investors have pondered a fundamental question: what's really...
Jane Green's "The Accidental Husband" is a powerful story about two women connected by an earth-shattering secret. Maggie and Sylvie are perfect strangers: two very different women,...
This story of raging comedy and despair centers on the tempestuous marriage of an heiress and a Vietnam veteran. From their "carpenter gothic" rented house, Paul sets himself up as a media...
JulyOctober 1940. The story of the early days of World War Two - when the future of Britain depended on the Spitfires and Hurricanes of the Royal Airforces Fighter Command
A brilliantly realised account of the most famous archeological dig in British history, now a major motion picture starring Ralph Fiennes, Carey Mulligan and Lily James. 'Exquisitely...
From the internationally best-selling author of "Brunelleschi's Dome" and "Ex-Libris, Domino" is a Rabelaisian journey into the hurly-burly world of 1770s London....
A psychological thriller about best friends, secrets and the past coming back to haunt you... From the author of "Sunday Times" bestseller "The Sisters".
N. J. Dawood's masterful translation of the Koran, with parallel Arabic text. "Across the language barrier Dawood captures the thunder and poetry of the original". (The Times). The...
Mesmerising, mythic and timeless - the most unmissable debut novel of 2022 - for fans of Arundhati Roy, Toni Morrison and Monique Roffey'Exceptional' Jacob Ross'Exquisite' Avni...
When was the last time you spoke to a stranger?In our cities, we barely acknowledge one another on public transport, even as rates of loneliness skyrocket. Online, we carefully curate who we...
Number one best-seller Jane Green - author of "The Love Verb" and "Spellbound" - examines the dynamics of family life and relationships in her novel "The Patchwork...
As the First World War reaches its final year, an illicit love affair is beginning between a sixteen-year-old boy and a young woman married to a soldier at the front. They meet secretly in her flat...
When the three witches - now old, remarried and widowed - decide to go back to Eastwick to spend a summer together, many things have changed. Darryl Van Horne is gone. Their husbands and lovers...
Greeted as a masterpiece when it was first published in 1966, Omensetter's Luck is the quirky, impressionistic, and breathtakingly original story of an ordinary community galvanized by the...
A new edition of the award-winning book which explores every aspect of our eating rituals, published to celebrate its 25th annniversary. Blends folklore, history and humour. With a new introduction...
Pre-order the chilling and heart-pounding new novel from Norwegian superstar Jørn Lier Horst.THE INSPIRATION FOR THE HIT BBC FOUR SHOW WISTINGA chilling letter. A wrong conviction. One last chance...
Rising sixth grader Miss Moses LoBeau lives in the small town of Tupelo Landing, NC. Although Mo hopes someday to find her "upstream mother," she's found a home with the Colonel and...
Burroughs's eagerly awaited final novel in the trilogy begun with Cities of the Red Night and The Place of Dead Roads is a profound, revealing, and often astonishing meditation on mortality,...