An extraordinary group portrait of London today: a book as rich, dynamic, lively, and diverse as the city itself.

Can man's best friend hold the key to a successful career, a happy relationship and the ever-elusive work-life balance?

A lyrical, poweful polemic about London today, from Occupy and the August 2011 riots through to the Jubilee and the Olympics.

Shirley Peters is dead. Murdered. Her body is found twelve hours later in her own home. Just one of the many sordid domestic crimes hitting the city. Tony Macliesh, her rejected boyfriend, is the obvious prime suspect and he's just been picked off the Aberdeen train and put straight into custody.

At Waterloo Station, hopeful new arrivals from the West Indies step off the boat train, ready to start afresh in 1950s London. There, homesick Moses Aloetta, who has already lived in the city for years, meets Henry 'Sir Galahad' Oliver and shows him the ropes.

The author roams the US, Mexico, Morocco, Paris and London, Kerouac records, in prose of pure poetry, life on the road. In this book, he reveals both the endless diversity of human life and his own high-spirited philosophy of self-fulfilment.

WINNER OF THE 2015 COSTA FIRST NOVEL AWARD THE BRITISH BOOK AWARDS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2016 'The Loney is not just good, it's great. It's an amazing piece of fiction' Stephen King

Sunday Times bestselling author of the Shetland and Vera Stanhope series, Ann Cleeves returns with the first in a brand new series set in North Devon and featuring Detective Matthew Venn. In this rural idyll, where two rivers meet, crime is always there waiting to rise from the water.

2070-71. Nearly six decades after Step Day and in the Long Earth, the new Next post-human society continues to evolve. For Joshua Valiente, now in his late sixties, it is time to take one last solo journey into the High Meggers: an adventure that turns into a disaster. Alone and facing death, his only hope of salvation lies with a group of trolls.

Ranger John Quarrie is called to the scene of an apparent suicide by a fellow war veteran. Although the local police want the case shut down, John Q is convinced that events aren't quite so straightforward.

Windham Campbell Prize-winner Kate Briggs' long-awaited debut novel, imagining new forms of life, writing and experience.

This is a tale of a young girl in pursuit of her runaway mother across America.

Down-and-out drunk Terry Lennox has a problem: his millionaire wife is dead and he needs to get out of LA fast. So he turns to his only friend in the world: Philip Marlowe, Private Investigator. He's willing to help a man down on his luck, but later, Lennox commits suicide in Mexico and things start to turn nasty.

A Times and Sunday Times Best Book of the Year, the sequel to the beloved bestseller, Brooklyn.

A Times and Sunday Times Best Book of 2024, the sequel to the beloved bestseller, Brooklyn

A tartly hilarious and deeply affecting new novel from the bestselling author of Will and Testament

Leaving Dublin to fight for the Allied cause as a member of the Royal Dublin Fusiliers, Willie Dunne finds himself caught between the war playing out on foreign fields and that festering at home, waiting to erupt with the Easter Rising.

Culver has been called off the Korean War reserve list to take part in manoeuvres in South Carolina. Their colonel orders his men to endure a 36-mile forced march to inculcate discipline and this is a searing account of this ferocious ordeal and of the two officers who dare to resist.

Long Road to Mercy is the exciting first novel in David Baldacci's series featuring female protagonist, Atlee Pine, FBI.

When Stephen Donaldson joins the Institute, he anticipates excitement, romance and new status. Instead he gets the tape-recorded conversations of ancient communists and ineffectual revolutionaries, until the day he is assigned a new case: the ultra-secret Phoenix. Is Phoenix really working for a foreign power?

This saga brings alive the world of the 10th century AD when the Vikings raided the coasts of England.