When former banana-grower Edris Tidson hears of a possible sighting of a water-naid he insists that his wife, her aunt Prissie and Prissie’s young ward Connie, travel with him to Winchester in search ...

The Observer’s chief foreign correspondent Peter Beaumont, takes us into the guts of modern conflict. Unflinching and exquisitely written, The Secret Life of War is a deeply personal and defining visi...

The Price of Altruism follows the incredible story of the eccentric American genius, George Price, whose unusual scientific journey led to an all-consuming quest to crack the secrets of altruism.

Grace Hammer lives a sweet enough life with her four children in London's dank and dirty East End, dipping the pockets of wealthy strangers foolish enough to venture there. Unbeknown to Grace, her mos...

Foulds' compelling tale centres on the life of the great nature poet John Clare. After years struggling with alcohol, critical neglect and depression, Clare finds himself in High Beach Asylum. At the ...

Wolff's account reveals the qualities that took Murdoch to the top of the world and have kept him there. In doing so he tells a business story that is also the story of a man’s life, and the story of ...

A very funny, sprawling, vivid, moving and original novel about love, families, friends, and the complexities of being a polygamous man in modern America. From the author of the legendary novel The M...

A timely examination of the charming and, at some points, heart-wrenchingly sad aspects of English village country life, Notwithstanding is about the people are worth remembering, whose lives are wor...