It gets into your bones. You don't even realise it, until you're driving through it, watching all the things you've always known and leaving them behind.Young Londoners Becky, Harry and Leon are leaving town in a fourth-hand Ford Cortina with a suitcase full of money. They are running from jealous boyfriends, dead-end jobs, violent maniacs and disgruntled drug dealers, in the hope of escaping the restless tedium of life in south-east London - the place they have always called home.As the stor...

The Sunday Times bestseller Victor Dalmau is a young doctor when he is caught up in the Spanish Civil War, a tragedy that leaves his life - and the fate of his country - forever changed. Together with his sister-in-law, he is forced out of his beloved Barcelona and into exile in Chile. There, they find themselves enmeshed in a rich web of characters who come together in love and tragedy over the course of four generations, destined to witness the battle between freedom and repression as it pl...

The new novel from the winner of the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature - 'a maestro' (Guardian). A captivating story of the intertwined lives of three young people coming-of-age in postcolonial East Africa

Aged thirteen, orphaned Badar is taken to his new life as a house boy in Dar es Salaam, where he will work to earn his keep. Life in the beautiful house is beyond anything Badar could have possibly imagined; and when Karim, the ambitious student son of house comes home to visit, the ...

It is meant to be a celebration but it ends in tragedy. As fireworks explode overhead, Evelyn Hardcastle, the young and beautiful daughter of the house, is killed.

But Evelyn will not die just once. Until Aiden – one of the guests summoned to Blackheath for the party – can solve her murder, the day will repeat itself, over and over again. Every time ending with the fateful pistol shot.

The only way to break this cycle is to identify the killer. But each time the day begins again, Aiden wa...

WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD 2017'This wrenching new novel by Jesmyn Ward digs deep into the not-buried heart of the American nightmare. A must' Margaret Atwood'A powerfully alive novel haunted by ghosts; a road trip where people can go but they can never leave; a visceral and intimate drama that plays out like a grand epic, Sing, Unburied, Sing is staggering' Marlon James, Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2015An intimate portrait of a family and an epic tale of hope and struggle, Sing, Un...

A darkly epic novel about connection, disconnection and destruction - from the New York Times-bestselling, National Book Award-winning, Booker Prize-longlisted author of Let the Great World Spin

'Gripping, mythic, bone-pulverising ... A spectacular achievement'

ANTHONY DOERR

'Jesmyn Ward is one of the greatest writers of all time. And Let Us Descend, once again, proves it'

JACQUELINE WOODSON

'Transcendent ... The best book I've read in years'

LOUISE KENNEDY

'Stunning ... Will grip you from the first word to the last'

NATHAN HARRIS

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The first weapon I ever held was my mother's hand.

On a slave plantation in the Carolinas, Annis has survived in the light of he...

'No novel this year was more fun to read' Sunday Times

'A locked room murder mystery... by way of Treasure Island' Guardian

'If you read one book this year, make sure it's this one' Daily Mail

SELECTED FOR THE BBC TWO BOOK CLUB BETWEEN THE COVERS AND THE RADIO 2 JO WHILEY BOOK CLUB

An impossible murder

A remarkable detective duo

A villain who may or may not exist

It's 1634 and Samuel Pipps, the world's greatest detective, is being transported from the Dutch East Indies to Amsterdam, where he ...

The sequel to the Sunday Times-bestselling South Korean therapy memoir, translated by International Booker Prize-shortlisted Anton Hur

When Baek Sehee started recording her sessions with her psychiatrist, her hope was to create a reference for herself. She never imagined she would reach so many people, especially young people, with her reflections. I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki became a runaway bestseller in South Korea, Indonesia, and the U.S., and reached a community of reader...

God. Mortal. Daughter. Monster. Saviour. Outcast. Lover. Destroyer. Creator. Mother. Witch.

Scorned, rejected and at last exiled from her father's house for her dark gifts, Circe arrives on the remote island of Aiaia with nothing but her wits and magic to help her. But there is danger for a solitary woman in the world, and Circe's independence and strange powers draw the wrath of men and gods alike. To protect what she holds dear, Circe must decide whether she belongs with the deities she is ...