BOOKS

At midnight comes the point of balance. Of danger. The instant of utter stillness when between two beats of the heart, an alternative reality can s...

In each of these tales Margaret Atwood deftly illuminates the single instant that shapes a whole life: in a few brief pages we watch as characters ...

A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses a moment of experience from which to look ahead...""This is a record of hate far more than...

Cats Eye is the story of Elaine Risley, a controversial painter who returns to Toronto, the city of her youth, for a retrospective of her art. Engu...

If you're holding this book in your hand, then you've already changed your life. Are you still waiting for your ship to come in? Looking for the re...

A collection of short stories featuring the ‘heart specialist’, Parker Pyne.Mrs Packington felt alone, helpless and utterly forlorn. But her life c...

Kazuo Ishiguro's new novel Klara and the Sun is now available*SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZEWINNER OF THE WHITBREAD (NOW COSTA) BOOK OF THE YEAR1...

We may unweave the rainbow, but we put together something far more beautiful' More and more frequently, science is accused of promoting an arid and...

The No. 1 hardback bestseller, King's spectacularly dark and electrifying novel about music, the powerful bond between two people, addiction, relig...

Oscar Fingall O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was born in Dublin in 1854. He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin and Magdalen College, Oxford where, a ...

An elderly spinster has been poisoned in her country home…Everyone blamed Emily’s accident on a rubber ball left on the stairs by her frisky terrie...

`It is hoped that we are not destined to see very much more of each other, Mr Carleton! You arouse in me an almost overmastering desire to give you...

Ever since its first publication, John Gray's relationship classic, MEN ARE FROM MARS, WOMEN ARE FROM VENUS has held its place at the top of the in...

Six Four . The nightmare no parent could endure. The case no detective could solve. The twist no listener could predict. For five days in January 1...

Set In An Unnamed Caribbean Seaport, Garcia Marquez's Extraordinary Love In The Time Of Cholera (1988) Relates One Of Literature's Most Remarkable ...

From the impish to the brilliantly comic, Vikram Seth's animal fables in verse can (like Diwali sweets) be enjoyed by young and old alike. Familiar...

A full-length Hercule Poirot novel, adapted from Agatha Christie’s stage play by Charles Osborne Sir Claud Amory’s revolutionary new formula for a ...

The human eye is so complex and works so precisely that surely, one might believe, its current shape and function must be the product of design. Ho...

Adventuress and opportunist, Ethelberta reinvents herself to disguise her humble origins, launching a brilliant career as a society poet in London ...

India’s Westernized elite, cut off from local traditions, ‘want to write a full stop in a land where there are no full stops’. From that striking i...

The Western world has experienced extraordinary economic progress throughout the last six decades, a prosperous period so extended that continuous ...

Hercule Poirot is summoned when a young woman is accused of murdering her wealthy aunt's house companion

'Six days ago, a man blew himself up by the side of a road in northern Wisconsin ...' In this book, the explosion that detonates the narrative also...