In this perceptive and rich collection of essays, Colm Toibin investigates the lives as well as the work of homosexual writers and artists of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

A collection of nine stories focusing on a moment in which an unspoken balance shifts; in which a mother and son do battle, or experience a sudden crisis, thus leaving their conception of who they are subtly or seriously altered.

A major new biography of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, told through the prism of the women in his life

Brilliantly imaginative urban fantasy on a colossal scale from an award-winning author.

From the bestselling author of Awakenings, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Musicophilia.

A candid and revealing memoir from writer Elizabeth Jane Howard.

From the Sunday Times top ten bestselling author of The Psychopath Test, a brilliant and hilarious book exploring the consequences of public shaming.

The highly acclaimed biography of the terrifying and fascinating Russian leader, Stalin, written by one of our greatest contemporary historians of Russia and author of the bestselling Trotsky, Lenin and Comrades.