Invited to an extravagantly lavish party in a Long Island mansion, Nick Carraway, a young bachelor who has just settled in the neighbouring cottage, is intrigued by the mysterious host, Jay Gatsby, a flamboyant but reserved self-made man with murky...

PEN/Hemingway Award For Debut Novel Finalist Shortlisted for the 2020 Center for Fiction First Novel PrizeA "rich, ambitious debut novel" (The New York Times Book Review) that reveals the ways in which a Jamaican family forms and fractures over...

Set in the afterglow of the great American Gold Rush, Zhang’s haunting and heart-breaking debut follows the brutal journey of two immigrant teenage girls after the unexpected death of their sole parent.Longlisted for the Rathbones Folio...

A Zambian debut novel that follows three generations of three families, telling the story of a nation, and of the grand sweep of timeOn the banks of the Zambezi River, a few miles from the majestic Victoria Falls, there was once a colonial settlement...

With access to countless material as well as interviews with the great man himself, Blake Bailey’s authorised biography of Philip Roth lays bare his ascent from the Jewish middle class to the heights of critical acclaim, placing his work, opinions and...

***NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER***Feel like you're always drowning in email? How much more would you achieve without them - and how much happier would you be?'A World Without Email crystallizes what so many of us feel intuitively but haven't been able to...

The iconic New York Times bestseller that 'struck the spark that would eventually light the fire of Black Lives Matter' (Ibram X. Kendi).Named one of the most important nonfiction books of the 21st century by Entertainment Weekly' Slate'...

Winner of the Guardian First Book Award 2011 Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Non-fiction 2011 Shortlisted for the Duff Cooper Prize 2011 Shortlisted for the Wellcome Trust Book Prize In The Emperor of All Maladies, Siddhartha Mukherjee, doctor,...

Under Hitler and Stalin the Nazi and Soviet regimes murdered fourteen million people in the bloodlands between Berlin and Moscow.The killing fields extended from central Polads to western Russia. For twelve savage years, on this bloodsoaked soil an...

From the winner of the Pulitzer Prize, this is one of the great untold stories of American history: the migration of black citizens who fled the south and went north in search of a better life. From 1915 to 1970, an exodus of almost six million people...

Hailed as 'the greatest biography of our era'(The Times) this is the fourth part of Robert Caro's multi-award-winning best-selling work on American President Lyndon Johnson.The Passage of Power, 'the series' crowning volume' (Economist), spans the years...

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR BIOGRAPHY 2013'Completely absorbing' --- Amanda Foreman'Enthralling' --- Guardian'The Three Musketeers! The Count of Monte Cristo! The stories of course are fiction. But here a prize-winning author shows us that the...

An oppressive, forensic, psychological thriller: J.K. Rowling meets Antony Beevor, Stephen King and Marina Warner ... Schiff's writing is to die for' ----THE TIMES It began in 1692, over an exceptionally raw Massachusetts winter, when a minister's niece...

One of Dahl’s most purely terrifying novels, this delightfully dark tale of a clandestine conference of witches and the boy and his grandma who foil their wicked plans remains a perennial favourite. Pulling out all the most grotesque stops and refusing...

"Welcome, my little friends! Welcome to the factory!” For Charlie Bucket, life isn’t very easy. He and his mother and father live in a very small house with Charlie’s four grandparents who all share one bed between them. There isn’t much to eat besides...

Roald Dahl's much-loved Matilda, now in a stunning large paperback format with Quentin Blake's original illustrations in full colour. Matilda Wormwood's father thinks she's a little scab. Matilda's mother spends all afternoon playing bingo. And Matilda's...

Occasionally, as he told his stories, my father would stride up and down waving his arms and waggling his fingers. But mostly he would sit close to me on the edge of my bunk and speak very softly. "The Big Friendly Giant makes his magic powers out of the...

Within what Max Liu in The Independent described as a volume ‘important without sounding self-important… heart-breaking and impossible to put down,’ Second-Hand Time distils, in its extraordinary collage of voices...

* NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOKS OF 2016 SELECTION * BEST BOOKS OF 2016 SELECTION BY THE BOSTON GLOBE * ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY * NPR * CHICAGO PUBLIC LIBRARY The New York Times bestselling investigation into the sexual, economic, and emotional lives of women...

Say Nothing presents the disappearance of a mother of ten in 1970s Belfast as a microcosm of the grueling Northern Irish troubles as a whole. Keefe condemns a culture of silence and blind sectarian loyalty for exacerbating the sufferings of...