Europe in 1618 was riven between Protestants and Catholics, Bourbon and Hapsburg–as well as empires, kingdoms, and countless principalities. After angry Protestants tossed three representatives of...

"The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there."   Summering with a fellow schoolboy on a great English estate, Leo, the hero of L. P. Hartley's finest novel, encounters a world of...

THE COLD WAR SCI-FI CLASSIC: Following a global nuclear war, a telepathic young boy searches for freedom in a fundamentalist society.“One of the most thoughtful post-apocalypse novels ever written.”...

“It was surprising what old experiences remembered could do to a presumably educated, civilized man.” And Hugh Denismore, a young doctor driving his mother’s Cadillac from Los Angeles to Phoenix, is...

This letter is your death sentence. To avenge what you have done you will die. But what has Manno the pharmacist done? Nothing that he can think of. The next day he and his hunting companion are both...

Fresh out of college in New England, a young woman returns home to New Orleans and is quickly pulled back into the city’s “wastrel-youth contingent” in this cult-classic novel of love and decadence,...

A man is shot dead as he runs to catch the bus in the piazza of a small Sicilian town. Captain Bellodi, the detective on the case, is new to his job and determined to prove himself. Bellodi suspects...

An Italian master's magnum opus about three generations of women, now in the first-ever unabridged English translation.Winner of the 2024 Society of Authors John Florio Prize for for the best...

Françoise Gilot's candid memoir remains the most revealing portrait of Picasso written, and gives fascinating insight into the intense and creative life shared by two modern artists.   Françoise...

BY THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE TALENTED MR RIPLEY AND *STRANGERS ON A TRAIN* INTRODUCED BY DENISE MINA ‘Highsmith is a giant of the genre. The original, the best, the gloriously twisted Queen of...