A compelling new novel by the author of the best-selling Out Stealing Horses, winner of the IMPAC award, the Independent Foreign Fiction prize, the Norwegian Critics' prize and Booksellers' Prize.

Dear Mr Bigelow is an enchanting collection of weekly letters written between 1949 and 1961 from an unmarried woman working at the Public Baths in Bournemouth, to a wealthy American widower in New Yor...

Shortly before 8 a.m. on 16 March 1968, C-Company, First Battalion, Twentieth Infantry, Eleventh Brigade, Americal Division, on a search-and-destroy mission in Quang Ngai Province, South Vietnam, ente...

The international bestselling autobiography of twice Tour-de-France winner LAURENT FIGNON, one of the greatest and most charismatic cyclists of all time

In this sumptuous vision of Venice, Peter Ackroyd turns his unparalleled skill at evoking place from London and the River Thames, to Italy and the city of myth, mystery and beauty, set like a jewel in...

In this extraordinary account Richard Hillary details his experiences as a fighter pilot in the Second World War, in which he was shot down, leading to months in hospital as part of Archibald McIndoe'...

This is an essential book for our times. Karen Armstrong strips away the misconceptions of religion, powerfully refutes the 'new atheists' and suggests that if we draw creatively on the insights from ...

Inspired by the food of Vietnam, The Art of Pho is a remarkable debut by the winner of the 2008 Cape/Observer graphic novel competition and a wonderful first graphic novel on food, friendship and alie...