Sebastian Barry Following the end of the First World War, Eneas McNulty joins the British-led Royal Irish Constabulary. With all those around him becoming soldiers of a different kind, however,...

Anne Enright An incandescent novel about the inheritance of trauma, wonder, and love across three generations of women.Nell McDaragh never knew her grandfather, the famed Irish poet Phil McDaragh. But...

Kenneth R Stow Generations of tourists visiting Rome have ventured into the small section between the Tiber River and the Capitoline Hill whose narrow, dark streets lead to the charming...

Domenico Starnone The Strega Award–winning Italian author’s “scalding and incisive” novel of marriage and family bonds that come undone in the wake of an affair (Library Journal, starred review).A New...

Alistair Horne During six weeks in 1940, Hitler's blitzkrieg shattered the redoubtable Maginot Line and, shortly thereafter, the French army. No historian has written a more definitive chronicle of that...

Javier Marias   THE FINAL NOVEL FROM THE GREATEST SPANISH WRITER OF HIS GENERATION, JAVIER MARÍAS'No-one nowadays writes prose like Javier Marías . . . If you're already a fan,...

Ed West 'Insightful, poignant and at times hilarious' The TimesExploring why conservatives have lost almost every political argument since 1945, Ed West looks at this endless litany of failure from...

Agnes Catherine Poirier Having studied in Paris and London, writing in both languages for the French and British press, Agnes Catherine Poirier plays with national stereotypes - which are both...

Jonathan Sumption This text is the first volume in a series that details the long and violent endeavour of the English to dismember Europe's strongest state, a succession of wars...

Peter Ackroyd Rich in detail and atmosphere, and told in vivid prose, Tudors, the second vollume in Peter Ackroyd's magisterial six-volume history of England, recounts the transformation of England from a...

Theo Farrell Chosen as a Book of the Year by the Sunday Times and the Evening Standard'Authoritative and provocative… For its range and breadth, it is a tour de force and a must...

Alexandria Richie The Warsaw Uprising of 1944 was a shocking event in a hideous war. This account recalls the tragedy from both German and Polish perspectives and asks why, when...