Twenty years ago Putin's fiercest critic was gunned down.Anna Politkovskaya was one of the great, heroic investigative journalists of the modern era. Shining a light on Russian state corruption, human rights abuses, and the brutal conflict in Chechnya...

Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice is brilliantly reinvented by Howard Jacobson, in his merciless, sharp and funny story of revenge, justice and antisemitism.With an absent wife and a daughter going off the rails, wealthy art collector and...

Shakespeare's Othello is ingeniously transplanted into a high school setting in this taut story about teenage friendship and racial tension.Arriving at his fourth school in six years, diplomat’s son Osei knows he needs an ally. Luckily he...

Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale is revolutionised by the iconic Jeanette Winterson in her page-turning, heart-breaking story of a baby girl banished from home.A baby girl is abandoned, banished from London to the storm-ravaged...

Shakespeare’s King Lear is reimagined in Edward St Aubyn's gripping story of a media mogul who has lost control.Henry Dunbar, the once all-powerful head of a global media corporation, is not having a good day. In his dotage he handed over...

Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet is completely reimagined in this unforgettable zombie love story.‘R’ is a zombie. He has no name, no memories, and no pulse, but he has dreams. Amongst the ruins of an abandoned city, R...

Shakespeare’s Pericles is transformed by Mark Haddon into a vivid, breathtaking adventure that zooms between antiquity and the present day.A motherless girl grows up in isolated luxury, hidden from the world by her wealthy father. She...

Welcome to Taipei, Taiwan. The Chinese Civil War is now long over, but its shadow still haunts the city’s lost souls.On the eve of her retirement, a dancer recalls the gentle boy she met in her youth. She loved him then – and never saw him...

** FROM THE NY TIMES and Costa shortlisted author, comes a NEW standalone thriller**The truth can set you free. Or destroy your lifeWhen blood spatter expert Claudia O’Shiel finds herself on stage to talk about the most famous criminal...

From washing up as algae on the Cambrian shore to their biological dominance today, biochemist and tree science consultant Harriet Rix tells the mesmerising story of how trees came to shape our world. The extraordinary story of the inventive and...

'A truly wonderful and fascinating book!' Lady Anne GlenconnerThe hidden story of the people who designed, sewed, stitched and steamed the clothes of Britain's queens, from Victoria to the present day.From tours and walkabouts to the dazzling spectacle...

The Sunday Times bestselling, prize-winning history of the alliance that won the war and made the peace – from the author of the acclaimed Appeasing Hitler'Brilliant' ANTONY BEEVOR'Superb' JAMES HOLLAND'A masterpiece' RICHARD J...

'Amazing, it really moved me... Not something I've encountered in British literary fiction before' SHON FAYE'If books can still change the world, this one most likely will' COLUM MCCANN'A scorching story of love, change, homecoming and forgiveness' DAWN...

'Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless? - You think wrong!'This is the story of Jane, an orphan in Victorian England, she is relentlessly bullied and deprived by her aunt and the charity school she is...

'She wanted to die, and she wanted to live in Paris.'This is the story of Emma, trapped in a disappointing marriage with a dull country doctor, she dreams for a life more like the sentimental novels she reads. In an attempt to break from the drab reality...

'There are times, though, that no matter how much food I eat, I find the food does nothing for me, like I am hungry for my country and nothing is going to fix that'This is the story of Darling, uprooted from her family home by paramilitary police, and...

'She's no good, that girl. Much too individualistic'This is the story of Fenfang who, determined to carve out a life more independent than her provincial roots, gets a job as a film extra in Beijing. But living a modern life is not as easy as it looks in...

The social contract is non-negotiable. The woman must be a mother. The woman must be desirable. The woman must be a caregiver.When Anna gives birth, she surrenders completely to motherhood, reshaping her body, identity and purpose, shielding herself from...

The country is flooding. Every day the sea claims another kilometre of land. The prime minister holds a daily press conference. Scientists try to find an explanation, without success. Sheep drown in the fields, weighed down by their waterlogged fleeces...

The English translation of Fatma Aydemir's award-winning and bestselling family saga. For thirty years, Hüseyin has worked in Germany, taking every extra shift and carefully saving, even as he provides for his wife and four children. Finally, he has...