BOOKS

To Kill a Mockingbird is a novel by the American author Harper Lee. It was published in 1960 and, instantly successful in the United States, it is ...

Elaine Risley, a painter, returns to Toronto to find herself overwhelmed by her past. Memories of childhood - unbearable betrayals and cruelties - ...

Meet Mr Bones, the canine hero of Paul Auster's remarkable new novel, Timbuktu. Mr Bones is the sidekick and confidant of Willy G. Christmas, the b...

Hardy's first published work, Desperate Remedies moves the sensation novel into new territory. The anti-hero, Aeneas Manston, as physically allurin...

Christine Rose is crossing the Ha'Penny Bridge in Dubline late one night wen she sees a stranger, Adam, poised to jump. Desperate to help, she talk...

Magic takes many forms. Supernatural magic is what our ancestors used in order to explain the world before they developed the scientific method. Th...

Whisked from his comfortable hobbit/hole by Gandalf the wizard and a band of dwarves, Bilbo Baggins finds himself caught up in a plot to raid the t...

In this striking tragedy of political conflict, Shakespeare turns to the ancient Roman world and to the famous assassination of Julius Caesar by hi...

In the world of Divergent, society is divided into five factions – Candor, Abnegation, Dauntless, Amity and Erudite. Every year, all sixteen-year-o...

Millions of readers around the world have relished Jeffrey Archers short stories. Taking inspiration from his favourite short story writers - F. Sc...

“You’re going to feel uncomfortable in your new world for a bit. But I hope you feel a bit exhilarated too. Live boldly. Push yourself. Don’t settl...

Sixteen-year-old Clary Fray is an ordinary teenager, who likes hanging out with her friends. But everything changes the night she witnesses a murde...

Jace es ahora un sirviente del mal, vinculado a Sebastian por toda la eternidad. Sólo un pequeño grupo de Cazadores de Sombras cree posible su salv...

An aristocratic old lady is brutally murdered in her country home the night before 9/11. A young woman in the North Tower has the courage and deter...

Joanna Trollope has been writing fiction for more than 30 years. Some of her best known works include The Rector's Wife (her first #1 bestseller), ...

In this memoir, Joseph Heller takes the reader on a journey back to his upbringing in a poor, predominantly Jewish neighbourhood in Coney Island, t...

AY 5 MONDAY 23 JULY 2001 5.53AM The sun is shining through the bars of my window on what must be a glorious summer day. Ive been incarcerated in a ...

In Wessex Tales, his first collection of short stories, Hardy sought to record the legends, superstitions, local customs and lore of a Wessex that ...

Splashing down off the coast of Australia, Alex is soon working undercover – this time for ASIS, the Australian Secret Service – on a mission to in...

TRANSLATED BY MAX HAYWARD AND MANYA HARARIBanned in the Soviet Union until 1988, Doctor Zhivago is the epic story of the life and loves of a poet-p...

A robust and bawdy battle of the sexes, this ever popular comedy captivates audiences with outrageous humor as Katharina, the shrew, engages in a c...

Born in India and educated in Britain, Mark Tully is a citizen of two countries and two cultures, both of which have shaped his thinking and given ...