Ex-soldier, poet and composer Ivor Gurney, suffering from increasingly frequent and deepening bouts of paranoid schizophrenia, is transferred to the City of London Mental Hospital, Dartford. Neglected by the military and by his own family, Gurney begins a descent into the madness and oblivion which he believes has long been waiting to claim him.

Harriet Jacobs's slave narrative is remarkable for its candid exposure of the sexual abuse suffered by slaves at the hands of their owners. Her sufferings, and eventual escape to the North, are described in vivid detail. This edition also includes her brother's short memoir, 'A True Tale of Slavery'.

The streets of Istanbul hide a world of fear and lies... The twentieth novel in the bestselling Inspector Ikmen series by Barbara Nadel, the Silver Dagger Award-winning author of THE HOUSE OF FOUR and ON THE BONE.

A novel by the author of "The Sportswriter".

Set in the early decades of the twentieth century, Independent People is a masterly realist novel evoking in rich detail a family and a rural community struggling to survive in the starkest of landscapes.

'There are good books and there are great books and there may be a book that is something still more: it is the book of your life' New York Review of Books Bjartus is a sheep farmer determined to eke a living from a blighted patch of land.

Complete integrated indices of History of Middle-earth volumes to complement new series.

From Victorian England to then-colony India, India Fan centers on Druscilla Delaney, a parson's daughter, in thrall to the wealthy Framling family. Druscilla becomes the reluctant friend to the arrogant Framling daughter, Lucia, who constantly requires rescuing from her own rash decisions.

Part of the Picador Classic series with an introduction from Paul Theroux.

Indiana (1831) is an absorbing and vivid romantic novel, set partly in provincial France, partly in Paris, and partly on a tropical island. It tells the story of a beautiful and innocent young woman, married at sixteen to a much older man.

During the second year of the Korean War in 1951, studious Marcus Messner is beginning his sophomore year on the conservative campus of Ohio's Winesburg College. Marcus has fled from his hometown of Newark, New jersey, trying to escape his father's oppressive love - a love that is also a mad fear of the dangers of adult life soon to face his son.

Inspired by "The Tempest", the novelist rewrites the drama of Ariel, Caliban and Sycorax in a Caribbean setting, exploring the colonial conflicts of an imaginary island and one family. The author's previous novel "The Lost Father" was Regional Winner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize.

22-year-old aspiring writer Edith 'Eddie' Miller and her best friend Rose have always done everything together-climbing trees, throwing grapes at boys, sneaking bottles of wine, practicing kissing .

Desiderio, an employee of the city under a bizarre reality attack from Doctor Hoffman's mysterious machines, has fallen in love with Albertina, the Doctor's daughter. But Albertina, a beautiful woman made of glass, seems only to appear to him in his dreams.

No matter where you go, the Bel Dames will find you Nyx used to be an assassin, part of the sisterhood of the Bel Dames. Now she's babysitting diplomats to make ends meet and longs for the days when killing was a lot more honorable. So, when her former 'sisters' lead a coup against the government, she's the perfect choice to stop them.

Offers a collection of stories that offers a candid peek at infidelity in all its guises. This book includes tales of lust, deceit, resentment and regret - and of the secrets and lies that can chip away at human relationships.

Offering a collection of stories, this book includes tales of lust, deceit, resentment, regret, secrets and lies that can chip away at human relationships. It features a series of interwoven dramas.

One of the most original, intoxicating and celebrated debuts of 2016, Infinite Ground is a novel of the all-too-brief splendour of being alive and the enduring splendour of the natural world.