A tale of quiet lives in an early 19th-century English provincial town which engages the reader at every level, from the author's chronicle of everyday details to the most exacting philosophical and moral reflection.

`I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day of January 1960; and then again, as a teenage boy, in an emergency room near Petoskey, Michigan, in August of l974.'

From award-winning author Adrian Duncan comes his first collection of short stories. Precise and penetrating prose.

In this astonishing collection of stories, Hanif Kureishi confirms his reputation as Britain's foremost chronicler of the loveless, the lost and the dispossessed. The characters in Midnight All Day are familiar to us all: frustrated and intoxicated, melancholic and sensitive, yet capable of great cruelty.

In this collection of stories, Kureishi chronicles the loveless, the lost and the dispossessed. They represent the frustrated and intoxicating, the melancholic and sensitive, capable of great cruelty and willing to break constraints of an old life to make way for the new.

The highly anticipated brand new John Rebus thriller from the iconic Number One bestseller Ian Rankin

The first in an exciting new historical crime series from the bestselling author of the Baby Ganesh Agency books.

Christmas Eve 1944, and six young US soldiers are sent close to the German lines to establish an observation post in an abandoned chateau in the Ardennes Forest. Hearing strange noises, they gradually realise that they are surrounded. But perhaps the Germans are as reluctant to fight as themselves.

The number one bestseller! The touching, funny and heartwarming new novel from the author of How to Stop Time and Reasons to Stay Alive

The touching, funny and heartwarming new novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author of How to Stop Time and Reasons to Stay Alive

The "master of ticking-bomb suspense" Jeffery Deaver brings us the latest thriller featuring his most beloved protagonists. Lincoln Rhyme and Amelia Sachs are back - on the hunt for a criminal terrorising New York City

From the author of THE SHADOW OF THE WIND, the haunting story of a secret society and a labyrinthine railway station with a dark past.

A brilliant Cuban Missile Crisis spy thriller by a former special forces officer and 'the thinking person's John le Carre'

The "Continuum Contemporaries" series provides informative and accessible introductions to some of the most important and influential novels of recent years. Each volume contains a biography of the novelist in question, a detailed summary of plot, characters and context, and details of film and television adaptions.

Born at the stroke of midnight at the exact moment of India's independence, Saleem Sinai is a special child. However, this coincidence of birth has consequences he is not prepared for: telepathic powers connect him with 1,000 other 'midnight's children' all of whom are endowed with unusual gifts.

An anthology of opera-inspired stories by the best writers of modern fiction published to celebrate the 75th anniversary of one of Britain's most extraordinary cultural institutions.

`Midwinter Break is a work of extraordinary emotional precision and sympathy, about coming to terms - to an honest reckoning - with love and the loss of love, with memory and pain.

Opening in East London, Migraine follows two men, one young and the other on the other side of middle age, as they cross the weather-ravaged city pursuing a doomed love.

The Military Orchid is a comic masterpiece - a blend of botany, memoir and satire; the story of Jocelyn Brooke's obsession with one flower - the Orchis Militaris, the military orchid.

From the author of the award-winning Saltwater comes an intimate love story about desire and shame