All Books

Synopsis One warm July morning Mr Phillips climbs out of bed, leaving Mrs Phillips dozing. He prepares for his commute into the city - but this is ...

Synopsis As a society, we are captivated by policing; we watch police procedurals and fly-on-the-wall documentaries and absorb the headlines on t...

Synopsis Stephen Baxter now returns to the mysteries and challenges first hinted at in his acclaimed novel Proxima. In Proxima we discovered anci...

Synopsis A tie-in to the TV series, offering practical advice to beginners wanting to learn more about wildlife. Bill Oddie's How to Watch Wildli...

Synopsis One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World'. Jean Rhys's masterpiece tells the story of Jane Eyre's 'madwoman in the attic', Ber...

Synopsis The New York Times Bestseller. A stunning new novel about life, death, and missed opportunities. Who would you be, if you hadn't turned ou...

Synopsis Classic tales by Laura Ingalls Wilder about life on the frontier and America's best-loved pioneer family.  The sun-kissed prairie stretc...

Synopsis Obliquity: Why our goals are best achieved indirectly is a book by economist John Kay. It was inspired by an observation of the success...

Synopsis This is a collection of the author's thoughts on a wide range of subjects from poverty and unemployment to disco dancing and dog racing,...

Synopsis Shortlisted for the Costa Biography Award 2015. Longlisted for the Orwell Prize 2016. A Radio 4 Book of the Week. In the spring of 1993,...

Synopsis So You've Been Publicly Shamed is a 2015 book by British journalist Jon Ronson about online shaming and its historical antecedents. The bo...

Synopsis A short, intense and profoundly moving debut novel about race, identity, sex and death - from one of the National Book Foundation's 5 Un...

Synopsis On the night of 22 December 1980, a plane crashes on the Franco-Swiss border and is engulfed in flames. 168 out of 169 passengers are ki...

Synopsis Chosen & Edited by Kingsley Amis. This delightful anthology celebrates a rich and pleasing - if often underrated - tradition of Engl...

Synopsis Long-Listed for The Orwell Prize 2020. In 1989 Saul Adler (a narcissistic, young historian) is hit by a car on the Abbey Road. He is appar...

Synopsis The turn of the Nineteenth Century saw an extraordinary flowering of invention in architecture and design, with two contrasting styles e...

Synopsis Edited with an Introduction by Ian A. Gordon. "The Provost" is a novel written in 1822 by John Galt. He was a Scottish novelist and he h...

.Synopsis Murdo, a teenager obsessed with music, dreams of a life beyond home. His recently widowed dad, Tom, stumbles towards the future, terrifie...

Synopsis After years of waiting, New York's newest subway line is finally ready - an express train that connects the city with the burgeoning com...

Synopsis Few mere mortals have ever embarked on such bold and heart-stirring adventures, overcome myriad monstrous perils, or outwitted scheming ve...

Synopsis Following the astonishing Plainsong and Eventide, this is Kent Haruf's third novel set in the imaginary landscape of Holt, Colorado. Short...

Synopsis This classic novel of childhood is set in fictional St Petersburg, a town based on Mark Twain's hometown of Hannibal, Missouri. Twain's ...

Synopsis Edited & Introduced by Daniel Tatarsky. The title explains what lies within. Eagle Annual from the 1960's. A nostalgic series of rep...

Synopsis Vespasian #7. AD 58: Rome is in turmoil once more. Emperor Nero has set his heart on a new wife but to clear a path for her, he must firs...