Marcel Proust Translated from the French by C.K. Scott Moncrieff and Stephen HudsonMarcel Proust (1871-1922) spent the last fourteen years of his life writing A la recherche du temps perdu. It is...

Kim Thuy I came into the world during the Tet Offensive, in the early days of the Year of the Monkey...Ru: In Vietnamese it means lullaby; in French it is...

Melissa Benn School Wars tells the story of the struggle for Britain’s education system. Established during the 1960s and based on the progressive ideal of good schools for all, the...

Michael Houellebecq LONGLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE 2020A powerful criticism of modern life by one of the most provocative and prophetic writers of our ageFlorent-Claude Labrouste is dying of...

Andrew WallisThe massacre of 1 million Rwandan Tutsis by ethnic Hutus in 1994 has become a symbol of the international community's helplessness in the face of human rights atrocities. It...

Marianne Fredriksson In her #1 international bestseller Hanna's Daughters, Marianne Fredriksson brilliantly evoked three generations of mothers, daughters, and the men in their lives. Now, in her haunting new novel,...

Christopher Hill In order to understand the English Revolution and Civil War we need to understand Puritanism. Using his consumate skill as a historian, Christopher Hill suggests that there might...

Fran Abrams As recently as 100 years ago British children existed in ways now unthinkable; boys as young as eight worked grueling hours in unlit factories; girls were sold into sexual...

Volker Weidermann It's as if they're made for each other. Two men, both falling, but holding each other up for a time.Ostend, 1936: the Belgian seaside town is playing host...

Kajsa Norman Reporter Chang Frick grew up dark-haired in a nation of blonds. Ostracised as a child, in adulthood he set out to expose the hypocrisy of Swedish society. When...

Mike Ashley For centuries, Britain has laid claim to the notion of liberty—and occasionally forgotten that the rights and freedoms enjoyed by its citizens were in fact hard-won. This volume...

Nicholas RankinOn 26 April 1937, in the rubble of the bombed city of Guernica, the world's press scrambled to submit their stories. But one journalist held back, and spent an...