Dominic Sandbrook Arguing that historians have been besotted by the cultural revolution of the Sixties, Dominic Sandbrook re-examines the myths of this controversial period and paints a more complicated picture...

Pascal Mercier One day mild-mannered, middle-aged teacher Raimund Gregorious suddenly quits his ordinary life and, for no reason apparent to his colleagues or his students, sets off on a journey...

Yasmin Alibhai-Brown January 1, 1995 by Virago Press

Ivan Klima The great Czech writer pens a new novel set in Prague and centered around Kristyna, a divorced mother trying to raise her rebellious teenage daughter Jana. October 7,...

Dag Solstad Bjørn Hansen, a respectable town treasurer, has just turned 50 and is horrified by the thought that chance has ruled his life. Eighteen years ago he left his...

Jonathan Coe This is a novel about the hundreds of tiny connections between the public and private worlds and how they affect us all.It's about the legacy of war and...

Penelope Fitzgerald Penelope Fitzgerald’s Booker Prize-winning novel of loneliness and connecting is set among the houseboat community of the Thames and has a new introduction from Alan Hollinghurst.On Battersea Reach,...

Martyn Bennett In this concise and accessible biography, Martyn Bennett examines the life of Oliver Cromwell – one of the most controversial figures in world history. This study challenges long-held...

Sebastian Barry Longlisted for the Booker Prize, a mesmerizing new novel from the award-winning author of Old God's TimeA first-person narrative of Lilly Bere’s life, On Canaan’s Side opens as...

Penelope Lively Passing On is the eighth novel by Booker Prize winning author Penelope Lively.Helen is fifty-two and Edward forty-nine when Dorothy, their mother, dies, ending her reign of terror and...

Adam Zamoyski Adam Zamoyski first wrote his history of Poland two years before the collapse of the Soviet Union. This substantially revised and updated edition sets the Soviet era in...

Nick Clegg 'Compelling' Ian McEwan 'Engrossing' Alan Johnson 'Essential' Robert Peston 'Important' Shirley Williams*THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER*Politics has changed. For decades Britain was divided between Left and Right but united...