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Rob Ryan's magical paper-cuts and screenprints have been used by designer Paul Smith, appeared on a Vogue model and graced book covers (THE BOOK OF...

In an Ireland far removed from the familiar images of travel brochures, a bright teenager is heading for trouble: son of a single mother who has gi...

'Ask a Scotsman for directions and he'll tell you which way to go. Ask an Englishman and he'll try to sell you a map.' Anon'Oats. A grain, which in...

For the mothers of the disappeared in 1970s Argentina, protest was difficult. Every Thursday they marched in front of government buildings wearing ...

**SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER** **RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK** **WATERSTONES SCOTTISH BOOK OF THE MONTH**'An astonishing feat'Christina Patterson, Sunda...

<h2>The Hare with Amber Eyes meets The History of the World in 100 Objects: an eloquent history of the language of sewing 'Threads of Life i...

A blistering take on Cool Britannia and London's underbelly in the 1990s, the third novel in Jake Arnott's loose trilogy following The Long Firm an...

THE DEFINITIVE BIOGRAPHY OF J.M.W. TURNER, REISSUED TO MARK THE 250TH ANNIVERSARY OF HIS BIRTH'A pleasure to read' A.S. BYATT'With splendid clarity...

As editor of the local newspaper in the small, pleasant town of Badgers Heath, Oliver Kettle is expected to join in the locals' constant efforts to...

You're twelve years old. Your mother's a junkie and your father might as well be dead. You can't read or write, and you don't go to school. An aver...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE PAUL TORDAY MEMORIAL PRIZE'An expertly imagined novel about war's long trail of damage, and about healing intentions gone savag...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE PAUL TORDAY MEMORIAL PRIZE'An expertly imagined novel about war's long trail of damage, and about healing intentions gone savag...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE PAUL TORDAY MEMORIAL PRIZE*'100 Best Reads for Summer', Sunday Times**'Best Summer Reads', Irish Times**'8th July Pick of the W...

'A funny, frightening book that is also refreshingly bonkers' Guardian 'A brilliant writer...a great novelist' Richard and JudyNorthern girl Harrie...

In a world prone to violent flooding, Britain, ravaged 20 years earlier by a deadly virus, has been largely cut off from the rest of the world. Sur...

Imagine you are twenty-two and have never met anyone your own age. You live with your parents and younger siblings in an empty tower block outside ...

Set in Tasmania and Antarctica, this is the beautifully told new novel from bestselling author Favel Parrett. When the Night Comes tells the story ...

'Strangely timeless . . . Both darkly comedic and tinged with tragic undertones'ELIF SHAFAK'Swift, witty and satirical, with a fine eye for English...

This is the forgotten story of the million white Europeans, snatched from their homes and taken in chains to the great slave markets of North Afric...

* The Whitbread-shortlisted novel from the bestselling author of THE PROMISE OF HAPPINESS *'Brilliant, dazzling, unsettling; subtle and haunting; c...

Do you hate going forward? Do you shudder when a colleague wants to reach out? Are you disgusted by low-hanging fruit, sick of being on the team, a...

'Haunting, atmospheric' Samira Ahmed'I loved this immensely evocative novel' Anita SethiGripping and atmospheric, Winter in Tabriz tells the story ...

Gripping and atmospheric, Winter in Tabriz tells the story of four young people living in 1970s Iran during the months immediately prior to the rev...

In this gloriously original social history, Travis Elborough argues that our national character - our snobbishness and willingness to laugh at ours...