Far from London’s crime and pollution, Hanmouth’s wealthier residents live in picturesque, heavily mortgaged cottages in the center of a town packed with artisanal cheese shops and antiques stores. Th
With Tolstoyan sweep and Dickensian vitality, this epically involving historical novel relates England’s tragic adventure in Afghanistan, which began with the triumphant arrival of the Army of the Ind
‘It’s the book you should give someone who thinks they don’t like novels … Here is surely a future prizewinner that is easy to read and impossible to forget’ Melissa Katsoulis, The Times The things hi
'Sometimes - not often - a book comes along that feels like Christmas. Philip Hensher's timely, but timeless, selection of the best short stories from the past 20 years is that kind of book. His intro
An award-winning novelist, reflecting on what handwriting can tell us about personality and personal history, tells of the story of this endangered art, paying tribute to the warmth of a handwritten n
An autobiographical tale inspired by the author's partner's childhood in civil war-torn 1970s Pakistan traces the experiences of young Zaved's upper-middle-class Bengali family, whose strong bond is m
