Ned Henry is a time-travelling historian who specialises in the mid-20th century - currently engaged in researching the bombed-out Coventry Cathedral. He's also made so many drops into the past that he's suffering from a dangerously advanced case of...

An extraordinary epic, set a million years in the future, in the time of a dying sun, when our present culture is no longer even a memory. Severian, a torturer's apprentice, is exiled from his guild after falling in love with one of his prisoners...

Welcome to the Best of the Masterworks: a selection of the finest in science fictionWhat does it mean to be human when you're part of the machine?Synners are synthesizers - not machines, but people. They take images from the brains of performers, and...

The computer age has arrived a century ahead of time with Charles Babbage's perfection of his Analytical Engine. The Industrial Revolution, supercharged by the development of steam-driven cybernetic Engines, is in full and drastic swing. Great Britain,...

Sherlock Holmes becomes obsessed with a new mystery upon receiving a coded message from his arch nemesis, Professor James Moriarty. Following clues from the ciphered note, Holmes and Watson discover the body of John Douglas, a former gang member. Certain...

Miss Mary Morstan receives a strange letter, telling her to meet an unknown benefactor to discover the truth about her missing father. With Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson on the case, the ensuing events spark an investigation that reveals a dreadful...

Ex-military doctor, John Watson, takes residency at 221B Baker Street, sharing rooms with the renowned detective, Sherlock Holmes. The sudden discovery of a dead body entangles the two into a world of murder and intrigue. Working with only a wedding...

The fourth book in Dorothy L Sayers' classic Lord Peter Wimsey series, introduced by detective fiction writer Simon Brett - a must-read for fans of Agatha Christie's Poirot and Margery Allingham's Campion Mysteries. 'D. L. Sayers is one of the best...

The third book in Dorothy L Sayers' classic Lord Peter Wimsey series, introduced by crime writer Minette Walters - a must-read for fans of Agatha Christie's Poirot and Margery Allingham's Campion Mysteries. 'D. L. Sayers is one of the best detective...

The second book in Dorothy L Sayers Lord Peter Wimsey series introduced by crime novelist Ruth Dudley Edwards - a must-read for fans of Agatha Christie's Poirot and Margery Allingham's Campion Mysteries. 'D. L. Sayers is one of the best detective story...

The first book in Dorothy L Sayers' classic Lord Peter Wimsey series introduced by crime writer Laura Wilson - a must-read for fans of Agatha Christie's Poirot and Margery Allingham's Campion Mysteries. 'D. L. Sayers is one of the best detective story...

Lord Peter Wimsey and Montague Egg confront menaces from purloined pearls to poisoned port in tales from “one of the greatest mystery story writers” (Los Angeles Times).In the annals of mystery writing, Lord Peter Wimsey and Montague Egg are...

A witty and clever whodunit by one of the greatest mystery writers of the twentieth century, featuring her dashing amateur sleuth, Lord Peter Wimsey.“Sayers brought to the detective novel originality, intelligence, and wit. She gave it a new style...

In this remarkable second collection, Seán Hewitt describes a journey haunted by love, loss and estrangement - from one of the Sunday Times 30 under 30 in Ireland 'An exquisitely calm and insightful lyric poet'MAX PORTER, author of Shy As the mind...

Anne Carson’s first original work since Float (Knopf, 2016)Published here in a stunning edition with images created by Carson, several of the twenty-five startling poetic prose pieces have appeared in magazines and journals like The New Yorker...

A stunning new collection of poetry from Shane McCrae, winner of the Whiting Writers' Award.Shane McCrae, one of the most powerful voices in contemporary poetry, returns with The Many Hundreds of the Scent, an urgent new collection that brims with lyric...

'But no, she's abstract, is a bird Of sound in the air of air soaring, And her soul sings unencumberedBecause the song's what makes her sing.' Dramatic, lyrical and ranging over four distinct personae, these poems by one of Portugal's greatest poets...

A fast-paced debut that draws upon reservation folklore, pop culture, fractured gospels, and her brother's addiction to methamphetamine

The New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2020.Time Magazine's 100 Must-Read Books of 2020.NPR's Best Books of 2020.National Book Award in Poetry, Longlist.Frank Sanchez Book Award.After her mother died, poet Victoria Chang refused to write elegies...

Shortlisted for the Costa Poetry Award 2020.Shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection 2020.Juana of Castile (commonly referred to as Juana la Loca - Joanna the Mad) was a sixteenth-century Queen of Spain, daughter of the instigators of...