In 1992, in peaceful Southern Sweden, a young housewife, a pillar of the Methodist church, disappears and Inspector Kurt Wallander and his team are called in to investigate. But he soon discovers that the chain of events leading to her disappearance began far away in South African.

Talks about a woman who is on a wildly comic journey from the eccentricities of Wales into the unholy Soho movie-world, which the author came to know whilst co-producing the notoriously disastrous film version of his second bestseller, "Rancid Aluminium".

Winner of the Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller, this book is about a journey undertaken by the author that begins in the dusty city of Jingdezhen in China and travels on to Venice, Versailles, Dublin, Dresden, the Appalachian Mountains of South Carolina and the hills of Cornwall to tell the history of porcelain.

Look after your sister, Tinashe. When Hazvinei was born, Tinashe knew at once that there was something different about her. Growing up in a rural Rhodesia haunted by memories of the recent guerilla wars, Tinashe knows he must take extra care of his sister. But Hazvinei is a wild spirit and soon the village starts to whisper - dark talk of curses.

Middle-aged history professor George, and his wife Martha, are joined by another college couple. The result is an all-night drinking session that erupts into a nightmare of revelations.

Presents the story of an adopted child, and the thwarted giantess Mrs Winterson.

Why do we make things? Why do we choose the emotionally and physically demanding work of bringing new objects into the world with creativity and skill? What is the nature of work? And what is the nature of a good life? Part memoir, this is a book about the process of creation and what it means to be a craftsman in a mass-produced world.

The village of Mark on the Somerset Levels is a watery wonderland, rich in wildlife: rooks and roe deer; sparrows and snowdrops; buzzards, badgers and butterflies; the iconic brown hare and the spectacular hummingbird hawk-moth. This title is both the story of a small corner of the West Country and a celebration of the natural world.