Meet Smonk,syphalitic, consumptive, gouty and goitered.

Life should have been sunny for Max Glickman, growing up in Crumpsall Park in peacetime, with his...

Packed with hilarious moments and toe-curling misunderstandings, this novel is about belonging an...

Jason Taylor is 13, doomed to be growing up in the most boring family in the deadest village in t...

Presents a human story of the regret and loss and stoicism of a man who becomes what he does not ...

A charismatic anarchist called O'Connell dies, leaving his artist boyfriend, Pearson, and fellow ...

Sarah Waters, the award-winning author of three novels set in Victorian London, returns with a ...

Set in London in 1990, this novel presents a portrait of a family compelled by ways of living the...

'I've never met anyone who made it with a chick because they owned a Tom Waits album. I've got al...

Presents three stories connected into one narrative about Juliet - who escapes from teaching at a...

Talks about the mysterious collapse of past civilizations - and what this means for the future. B...

Tells the story of a friendship between a writer and illustrator ('a middle class scum ponce, if ...

Gardner Botsford grew up in a Manhattan town house, and won a job as a reporter on The New Yorker...

A poignant coming-of-age story and a gripping novel of natural wonder

Dwight B Wilmerding is only twenty-eight, but he's having a midlife crisis. Encouraged by one of ...

A brutal and brilliant novel set in the American Civil War.

Angela Carter's pick of Mother Goose's feathers. A collection of fairy tales for children and ...

The author, whose writing has been variously described as 'jocund', 'slightly loopy', ' unbelieva...

When a teacher is found dead, his friend Pierre Hoffman takes over class 4F and finds himself res...