With an introduction by Rory Stewart In 1994, the Rwandan government orchestrated a campaign of extermination, in which everyone in the Hutu majority was called upon to murder everyone in the Tutsi mi
With an introduction by Neel Mukherjee. In Manhattan, just after the century's turn, three thirty-year-old friends, Danielle, Marina and Julius, are seeking their fortunes. But the arrival of Marina's
With an introduction by P J O'Rourke In the first instalment of Clive James’s memoirs we follow the young Clive on his journey from boyhood to the cusp of manhood, when his days of wearing short trous
With an introduction by John Burnside Tom Crick is a passionate teacher, but before he is forced into retirement by scandal, he has one last history lesson to deliver: his own. Spanning more than 200
With an introduction by Jayne Ann Phillips A novel inspired by the shocking true story of the Scottsboro boys, whose legacy has shaped the course of modern American history. Alabama, 1931. A freight t
With an introduction by Colm Tóibín Freddie Montgomery has committed two crimes. He stole a Dutch old-master painting from a wealthy family friend and murdered the chambermaid who caught him in the ac
With an introduction by Will Self A classic work of psychology, this international bestseller provides a groundbreaking insight into the human mind. In his most extraordinary book, Oliver Sacks recoun
With an introduction by Sadie Jones One misty London afternoon in 1886, piano tuner Edgar Drake receives an unusual request from the War Office: he must leave his quiet life and travel to the jungles
With an introduction by Robert Macfarlane One winter, after an enforced period of recuperation, William Fiennes finds himself restless and yearning for adventure. He travels to Texas, where he begins
With an introduction by Russell Brand What if a tiny, shadow elite rule the world from a secret room? In Them Jon Ronson sets out to find this room, with the help of the extremists – Islamic fundament
A little boy and his grandfather embark on a quest to find the old man's missing birthday in Diana Rosie's debut novel, Alberto's Lost Birthday. Alberto is an old man. But he doesn't know how old - he
Blade of Light is the nineteenth gripping addition to the phenomenally successful Inspector Montalbano mysteries by Andrea Camilleri. For a brief moment, as Montalbano was looking, a bright blade of l
Jack is five. He lives with his Ma. They live in a single, locked room. They don’t have the key. Jack and Ma are prisoners. ‘Room is a book to read in one sitting. When it’s over you look up: the worl
With an introduction by Helen Dunmore Come for a walk down the river road, For though you're all a long time dead The waters part to let us pass The way we'd go on summer nights In the times we were c
