NEW IN PAPERBACK In recent years there has been a resurgence of interest in cider around the world, with breweries having invested millions to meet growing demand.
Stella Benson sets off for Hilltop, a tiny Sussex village housing a family that is somewhat larger than life. Why is she so reluctant to talk about her past?The Country Life, Rachel Cusk's...
In Mars by 1980, David Stubbs charts the evolution of electronic music from the earliest mechanical experiments in the late nineteenth century, through to the ubiquitous, familiar sounds of...
Winner of the Whitbread First Novel AwardAgnes Day - sub-editor, suburbanite, failure extraordinaire - has discovered disconcerting gaps in her general understanding of the world. Terminally...
Four victims, all young women, all tortured and then lobotomised. None of them able to tell the police the name of their attacker. None of them able to live normal lives again. Just broken dolls,...
When eighteen-year-old Michael visits the Hanbury's remote family home he is captivated żeby their bohemian lifestyle. The chance to escape once more to his friend's country house comes as...
Hunt, trek, and feast among Neanderthals in this stunning novel aby the radical Nobel Laureate and author of Lord of the Flies, introduced żeby Ben Okri.
Six days ago, a man blew himself up aby the side of a road in northern Wisconsin...The explosion that detonates the narrative of Paul Auster's remarkable novel also ends the life of its hero,...
Ralph Loman works in an unsatisfying job, for a free London newspaper, when Francine Snaith, a temporary secretary for a corporate finance firm, unexpectedly crosses his path at a party.
'I read a book one day, and my whole life was changed.' So begins The New Life, Orhan Pamuk's fabulous road novel about a young student who yearns for the life promised by a dangerously...
The true story of how Britain's maritime power helped gain this country unparalleled dominance of the world's economy, "Admirals" celebrates the rare talents of the men who shaped...