John Boyne Odran Yates enters Clonliffe Seminary in 1972 after his mother informs him that he has a vocation to the priesthood. He goes in full of ambition and hope,...

Iain Hampsher-Monk Iain Hampsher-Monk’s lucid and accessible history of modern political thought is the introduction which many have been waiting for, providing a thorough guide to the ideas and writings...

Yehuda Bauer History of Anti-semitism, the Holocaust and survival!This book reviews the history of the Jewish people and the development of anti-Semitism, describes the horrors of the Holocaust, and examines...

Julian BarnesBeginning with an unlikely stowaway's account of life on board Noah's Ark, A History of the World in 10½ Chapters presents a surprising, subversive, fictional history of earth told...

Julian Barnes A fictional history of the world in which stories echo each other as themes deepen and images recur. The author also wrote "Metroland" for which he won the...

Veronica Henry Sunshine, cider and family secrets... Dragonfly Farm has been a home and a haven for generations of Melchiors - arch rivals to the Culbones, the wealthy family who...

Michelle BatesTom's cousin has lent him Chancey, her stunning chestnut gelding, for the summer. But the once proud horse is in a terrible state and the owner of Sandy Lane...

David Grossman The award-winning and internationally acclaimed author of the To the End of the Land now gives us a searing short novel about the life of a stand-up comic, as revealed...

VS Naipaul Naipaul’s breakthrough novel is a marvellous comic tale of a Trinidadian of Indian descent striving to improve his lot. Continually making big plans for himself he constantly finds...

Lucy DillonLetters from the only man she's ever loved.A keepsake of the father she never knew.Or just a beautiful glass vase that catches the light, even on a grey day.If...

Sue GraftonA IS FOR AVENGER. A tough-talking former cop, private investigator Kinsey Millhone has set up a modest detective agency in a quiet corner of Santa Teresa, California. She's a...

AB Yehoshua In the year 999, when Ben Attar, a Moroccan Jewish merchant, takes a second wife, he commits an act whose unforeseen consequences will forever alter his family, his...