Jose Saramago From the misty mountains of the north to the southern seascape of the Algarve, the travels of Nobel Laureate Jose Saramago are a passionate rediscovery of his own...

Niall Ferguson Once vast swathes of the globe were coloured imperial red and Britannia ruled not just the waves, but the prairies of America, the plains of Asia, the jungles...

Marcel Proust In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower is a spectacular dissection of male and female adolescence, and an unequalled meditation on different forms of love, charged with the...

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...

Cassell Books The finest Britain has to offer, brilliantly commented on by its best writers and personalities. From the heroic (Winston Churchill's 1940 Speeches by Andrew Roberts) and the literary (The...

Lucy Coleman Marci James is in love with her job. She's not had a holiday in five years, but now she's escaping to the Italian coast after agreeing to pack...

Shena Mackay When Percy and Betty Harlency abandon their seedy Streatham pub, for the Copper Kettle Tearoom in Kent, life for their daughter April changes dramatically. She is befriended by...

Simon Schama History clings tight but it also kicks loose', writes Simon Schama at the outset of this, the first book in his epic three-volume journey into Britain's past. 'Disruption...

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...

Judith Lennox An epic novel of passion, betrayal and danger, set in wartime Britain and EuropeIn the spring of 1936 Kay Garland embraces an exciting new life of glamour when...

Louise Dean Jan and Annemieke are going on their last holiday together, their love dissolving in middle age. than an escape from their daily existence. They discover that it's not...

Andrzej Sapkowski Reinmar of Bielau, called Reynevan, flees after being caught in an affair with a knight's wife.With strange, mystical forces gathering in the shadows and pursued not only by...