Stefan Zweig's classic biography of one of British history's most fascinating figures, rereleased in a new edition to tie in with launch of the major new Hollywood film, Mary Queen of Scots.From the m
A very moving journey through grief: Pockety the tortoise has things to teach youIn this simple story about grief, and the continuation of life, a tortoise mourns her lost friend, learns to live alone
If being old meant making up things so you wouldn't be alone, then it really wasn't very different from being seventeenNofar is just an average teenage girl - so average, she's almost invisible. Servi
Berlin, November 1938. With storm troopers battering against his door, Otto Silberman must flee out the back of his own home. He emerges onto streets thrumming with violence: it is Kristallnacht, and
At the end of the eighteenth century, a giant strides the Cape Colony frontier. Coenraad de Buys is a legend, a polygamist, a swindler and a big talker; a rebel who fights with Xhosa chieftains agains
Can a daughter ever really understand her mother?Chantal Thomas grew up in a seaside town on the Atlantic coast of France, inheriting from her mother an obsession with the sea, and for swimming. In th
With its delicious food, warm jazz, and stunning views of Manhattan, Edward's home was a much-needed refuge for reporter Isabel Vincent. Her recently widowed ninety-something neighbour would prepare w
The delightful first title in a new collaboration with Channel 4's Walter Presents: a fast-paced comic mystery enriched by a deep love of booksIn the small town of Crozon in Brittany, a library houses
Béla has never had much luck. His mother abandoned him at birth to go to work in Budapest, leaving him in the care of the dubious 'Aunt Rozika', a former prostitute who now runs a foster home with equ
After a lifetime of bad decisions PI Caleb Zelic is finally making good ones. He's in therapy, his business is recovering and his relationship with his estranged wife Kat is on the mend.But soon Caleb
One of the great Central European war stories, on a par with the works of Jaroslav Hasek' Los Angeles Review of BooksAt the beginning of the twentieth century the villagers of the Carpathian mountains
Machi Tawara's first book of poems, Salad Annivsersary, combines the classical 'tanka' form with the subject of a modern love affair. It became a sensation, selling over 2 million copies - and th
THE OLD WORLD IS CRUMBLINGOutside the gates of the magnificent Versailles palace, the city of Paris sits mired in squalor and crime. One night a body is found with ghastly mutilations that shock even
A classic collection of mysteries by the author of The Scarlet Pimpernel Mysteries! There is no such thing as a mystery in connection with any crime, provided intelligence is brought to bear upon its
An atmospheric love story with a twist by the author of The Rabbit Back Literature Society.In a small hillside town, Olli Suominen - publisher and discontented husband - is constantly losing umbrellas
A Life is the gruelling tale of the frustrated existence of a bank clerk with a poetic soul. The artistic aspirations of the protagonist and the emptiness of his daily life become tragic in the great
An ingenious thriller, set in Edinburgh, from the master of French noir.Jean-Marie can't believe his luck when he has a passionate triste with a beautiful young Englishwoman, Marjory, who is holidayin
The love of drinking was well-developed in the nineteenth-century Englishman. With chapters on port, claret, sherry, champagne, Burgundy, Madeira, wine cellars, glasses and butlers, Through a Glass Li
A book passionately defending balloon flight for human beings, celebrating the 175th anniversary of The London Library.The first balloon flight with passengers (a sheep, a duck, and a rooster) took pl
A "hugely impressive first novel" (David Nicholls) about a virtuoso pianist plagued by unwanted music in his head - with echoes of Gatsby and Patricia HighsmithJan - a virtuoso pianist - is about to g
A book of boxing by one of the nineteenth-century stars, celebrating the 175th anniversary of The London Library.Ned Donnelly, a former prize fighter turned boxing instructor and author (with a lot of
The first bicycle was invented at the beginning of the nineteenth century, but it wasn't until the 1890s that the craze really took off. This brought with it the fears, scaremongering, worries and unc
The 19th-century boom in mass tourism, fuelled by the introduction of the railways, brought with it the rise of travel writing. Guided excursions such as "Cook's Tours" (the first of which was led by
In the early hours of the morning, a woman is found in the elevator of a plush apartment block on Santa Fe Road, Buenos Aires. She's young, gorgeous and dead. With this opening image starts one of the
1969: Loren McIntyre makes contact with the elusive Mayoruna 'cat people' of the Amazon's Javari Valley. He follows them - into the wild depths of the rainforest. When he realises he is lost, it is a
A moving ghost story that explores the overcoming of loss, and how to move onThomasine has spent months living in her great-great-aunt's dusty, dark house with her father, and her aunt, uncle and cou
A Sunday Times and Daily Telegraph Book of the Year 'Fans of The Letter for the King will be delighted with its sequel' Sunday Times 'Action-packed drama' Daily Mail One of the King's most trusted kni
It all happened so quickly. First, animals became infected with the virus and their meat became poisonous. Then governments initiated the Transition.Now, 'special meat' - human meat - is legal. Marcos
Marcos Tejo's job is to slaughter humans. Only no-one calls them that - not since the 'Transition'. When animals became infected with a virus lethal to humans, they had to be rounded up and killed. Fa
In August 1785, Paris buzzed with a scandal that had everything—an eminent churchman, a female fraudster, a part-time prostitute and the hated Queen herself. Its centrepiece was the most expensi
Montpellier in 1566 is one of the greatest seats of learning of the age, a cradle of Renaissance humanism. But even this proud city of philosophers is not safe from the menaces that endanger the peace
Mysteries! There is no such thing as a mystery in connection with any crime, provided intelligence is brought to bear upon its investigation. So says a rather down-at-heel elderly gentleman to young P
Shif is just an ordinary schoolboy who loves chess and playing with his best friend. But, one day, he is forced to leave home to avoid conscription into the army. He embarks on an epic journey, in whi
A quixotic and funny tale about first love - from the Akutagawa Prize-winning author.A boy is obsessed with a woman who sells sandwiches. He goes to the supermarket almost every day, just so he can lo
While staying with her aunt at a fashionable spa, Else receives an unexpected telegram from her mother, begging her to save her father from debtor's jail. The only way out, it seems, is to approach an
Dark and shocking psychological suspense about a man at war with himself. This is a skillful and assured debut about a deeply unsettling subject.Jonathan has returned from prison to his largely desert
A startling novella from the heir to Haruki Murakami and Gabriel García Márquez.Boku has an uneasy preoccupation with dreams - and with making and losing lovers. And when he first runs away from Tokyo
Bored with her mundane factory job, her nagging mother and her alcoholic father-in-law, Louise is captivated by a glamorous American couple who move to her industrial hometown in Northern France. The
Jacob has saved his brother from the Mirrorworld, but now he will pay a terrible price. A fairy's curse is burning in his heart, and to break the spell he must embark upon a perilous journey - with hi
No one knows the recipe for happiness?and yet Hector Abad offers us a whole volume. His recipes, at times bizarre, at times wise, appear able to cure almost anything. With ingenuity and subtle humor,
