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Stored in Whitehall's archives are everything from blood-chilling warnings of imminent nuclear attack to comical details of daily life in the corri...

Cool. Balanced. Modern. The precisions of science, the wild variance of lust, the catharsis of confession and the fear of failure - these are thing...

On 29 January 2008 Philip Gould was told he had cancer. He was stoical, and set about his treatment, determined to fight his illness. In the face o...

'As good as anything Banks has ever written, if not better' Sunday TelegraphAfter years of exile, Alban Wopuld has been summoned back to his family...

'Ingenious, daring and brilliant' GuardianCOMPLICITY N. 1. THE FACT OF BEING AN ACCOMPLICE, ESP. IN A CRIMINAL ACTA few spliffs, a spot of mild S&a...

'One of the best opening lines of any novel' Guardian'It was the day my grandmother exploded. I sat in the crematorium, listening to my Uncle Hamis...

'Fierce contemporaneity, an acrobat imagination, social comment, sardonic wit... the peculiar sub-culture of cult religion is a natural for Banks' ...

'A stunning book. Banks' powerful imagination is joined to a rare ability to be truly funny while exploring a nightmare world' Sunday TimesA man li...

'Establishes beyond doubt that Iain Banks is a novelist of remarkable talents' Daily TelegraphGraham Park is in love. But Sara Fitch is an enigma t...

'Banks once again demonstrates his extraordinary dark powers of imagination' Sunday TimesHisako Onada, world-famous cellist, refuses to fly. And so...

'A gothic horror story of quite exceptional quality' Financial Times'Two years after I killed Blyth I murdered my young brother Paul, for quite dif...

'A poisoned bonbon, a bitter fairy tale' IndependentKate Telman is a senior executive officer in The Business, a powerful and massively discreet tr...

'A deeply satirical and thought-provoking thriller' Sunday ExpressA couple of ice cubes, first, then the apple that really started it all. A loft a...

'Charming, sad, comic... the funniest, truest rock biopic yet' ObserverDaniel Weir used to be a famous - not to say infamous - rock star. Maybe st...

Throughout the East there runs a legend of a great mountain at the centre of the world, where four rivers have their source. Charles Allen traces t...

'Exhilarating... a work of imagination and arresting originality' Sunday TelegraphThe war is ending, perhaps ended... For the castle and its occupa...

'It was a night that would be long remembered. The Florence police would come to call it a night of horror, the start of a new nightmare . . .'Afte...

I saw her file it away: a good Catholic girl come to supervise her in her detention. Every girl in England, now, under the circumstances, made sure...

Young people growing up in Britain today face a narrowing job market, high housing costs and the prospect of a lifetime of hard work with less rewa...

I didn't stand a chance: looking back over thirteen years, that's what I see. In the very first instant, I was won over, and of course I was: I was...

'It's a cliche to compare novelists to Jane Austen, but in the case of Jane Gardam it happens to be true. Her diamond-like prose, her understanding...

'It's a cliche to compare novelists to Jane Austen, but in the case of Jane Gardam it happens to be true. Her diamond-like prose, her understanding...

Paris, May 1940. Nazi troops storm the city and at Le Bourget airport, on the last flight out, sits Dr Alexandre Yersin, his gaze politely turned a...

The idea of world leaders gathering in the midst of economic crisis has become all-too familiar. But the summit at Bretton Woods in 1944 was the on...