2015 Man Booker Prize longlist In this dazzling debut novel, four young brothers in a small Nigerian town encounter a madman, whose prophecy of violence threatens the core of their family Told from t
2015 Man Booker Prize longlist As heard on BBC Radio 4 - the acclaimed new novel from Man Booker Prize-nominated author Andrew O'Hagan. How much do we keep from the people we love? Why is the truth s
Mowgli, the wolf-child, is famous around the world, read Kipling's original story and meet beloved characters such as Baloo the bear, Bagheera the panther and Shere Khan the tiger. Follow Mowgli as he
'Kristen Lepionka and Roxane Weary are the best things to happen to the genre in years.' Laura Lippman, author of SunburnA 3am phone call is never good news.Private investigator Roxane Weary receives
Maya has to escape. She's on the run in a country she doesn't know and has no idea who to trust. Raul is escaping too - travelling back to his home where a terrible tragedy happened, ready to stir up
Emma Brockes is thirty-seven, lives alone, and wants children. She is in a relationship (good!) but they aren't doing the parenting together (weird!). Emma needs sperm, a doctor, and not to bankrupt h
In this radical new version of Peer Gynt, David Hare kidnaps Henrik Ibsen's most famous hero and runs away with him into the twenty-first century.Stripped of fretwork and greenery, the play is project
We are a small community. The happiness of our children is everything. Our hopes and dreams rest in these tiny souls.In a small town in northern Denmark, the children celebrate Harvest Festival. In th
From the New York Times bestselling author of SunburnHeloise is a single mum, who runs her own business and keeps herself to herself.But Heloise's business is one that takes place in discreet hotel ro
Kazuo Ishiguro has been acclaimed in the Sunday Times for 'extending the possibilities of fiction'. In Never Let Me Go he has fashioned another remarkable story - a story of love, loss and hidden trut
Jorge said he wasn't coming back until I learned how to be a better wife . . . But before he drove off he gave me a new flashlight with triple C batteries and I'm grateful for it because this is a ver
'Erudite, well-researched, and full of compassion... This book will change the way people understand schizophrenia, and that change is long overdue.' CHRISTIE WATSON, author of The Language of Kindnes
DISCOVER THE REALITY OF LIFE AS A SUPERSTAR DJ IN THIS SENSATIONAL EXPOSÉ OF WHAT REALLY GOES ON BEHIND THE BPMs.The glamour, the parties, the excess, the highs and, of course, the lows. In The Secret
1950s Manhattan: the CIA carries out a covert study of psychoactive drugs. Ad man Ned Sweeney is dosed with MDT-48, and finds his horizons dramatically expand. But how long can he maintain the extraor
The debut collection of short fictions, philosophical vignettes and aphoristic interludes from the Booker Prize-winning author of Vernon God Little. Drawing on memoir and a life lived in pursuit of
As Home Secretary in Her Majesty's Government, David Blaylock's daily work involves the control of Britain's borders, the oversight of her police force, and the struggle against domestic terror threat
As mascots, messengers, rat-catchers and even spies, animals have long marched into war alongside servicemen and women. Dogs, horses, cats (even birds, camels and elephants) have saved thousands of li
"The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us." Robert Louis StevensonNick hates it when people call him a genius
WINNER OF THE GOLDSMITHS PRIZE 2013 SHORTLISTED FOR THE FOLIO PRIZE 2014Eimear McBride's debut tells, with astonishing insight and in brutal detail, the story of a young woman's relationship with her
