A free-ranging survey of the huge impact that the domesticated ungulates of the genus Ovis have had on human history.

China Mieville's reading of the modern world's most controversial and enduring political document: the Communist Manifesto.

The last instalment in Dilberne sequence: following one family through the twentieth century.

A modern fable about one man's search for visibility on an enchanted island.

A stark and violent exploration of an American myth, this is a novel about the doomed gunslinger Billy the Kid.

An absorbing, inventive novel of love, death and aristocracy in inter-war London.

A major new biography of the Black Prince: hero of the battles of Crecy and Poitiers and England's greatest medieval warrior.

A slice of crazed, rural, Irish gothic: the tale of murder in a small Irish village in Donegal, Bogmail is a classic of modern Irish literature.