Jersey Festival of Words

What's new. What else. What next. What's happened here. Pitch Dark is a book about love. Kate Ennis is poised at a critical moment in…

'Every new novel by Giles Foden is something to celebrate - my hand leaps to the shelf' PAUL THEROUX 'The most original and interesting novelist…

'Reading this book is a strange and shimmering joy; a glimpse of a miracle' Jon McGregor Six o'clock in the morning, Sunday, at the worn-out…

In January 2017, Chimene Suleyman was on her way to an abortion clinic in Queens, New York with her boyfriend, the father of her nascent…

FROM THE MILLION-COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE HEAVEN & EARTH GROCERY STORE 'A complex, ever-tightening, increasingly suspenseful web' Washington Post 'Gripping' New York Times In…

'A truly beautiful story about longing and London' DAISY BUCHANAN 'Literary, thrilling, hugely funny, with a massive heart' SARA PASCOE 'I tore through it' NUSSAIBAH…

'Thrilling and propulsive, glorious and terrifying. Julia Phillips is a brilliant writer' Ann Patchett They were sisters and they would last past the end of…

I am gonna write poems til I die and when I have gotten outta this body I am gonna hang round in the wind and…

'An incredible debut' ROXANE GAY 'Wise and wonderful' PAUL BEATTY 'I read in a fever' EMILY ITAMI 'Seismic' JONATHAN ESCOFFERY WHO WOULD YOU SACRIFICE AT…

'Inspiring. Emotionally charged. Ground-breaking' BERNARDINE EVARISTO 'A revelation. I am so thankful to Ntozake Shange for seeing us, reflecting us and showing us how beautiful…

It was exciting when it started, then comfortable and domestic, and over time we grew apart. If it had been real, our relationship wouldn't have…

'A brilliant concept, executed with enviable elegance' Lucy Worsley 'A gem of a book. Thanks to Daisy Dunn's elegant and lively retelling of history, the…

The Scramble for Africa astonished everyone. In 1880 most of the continent was ruled by Africans, and barely explored. By 1902, five European Powers (and…

The war declared by the Boers on 11 October 1899 gave the British, as Kipling said, 'no end of a lesson'. The public expected it…

If you and your family needed help, could you trust the law to be on your side? Award-winning barrister Charlotte Proudman has dedicated her working…

If you and your family needed help, could you trust the law to be on your side? Award-winning barrister Charlotte Proudman has dedicated her working…

Cairo, 1942: If you had asked a British officer who Colonel Clarke was, they would have been able to point him out: always ready with…

'A smart, sly and satisfying book' PANDORA SYKES 'A crafty new locked-room thriller of adultery and disaster' WASHINGTON POST 'An energizing reminder of what the…

'Absolutely wonderful. The book I've been waiting to read since I was ten years old. Full of surprising and piercing insights . . . The…

'Compulsively readable' SUNDAY TIMES 'A superior medical thriller' GUARDIAN 'Darkly gripping' OBSERVER You're trained to save the lives of others. But how far would you…

'These journals are a revelation, a road map and a gift to us all' TAYARI JONES, author of An American Marriage 'Walker writes beautifully about…

'A globe-trotting legal thriller, a personal history and a twin portrait of a pair of mass murderers . . . indelible and enthralling' PATRICK RADDEN…

All systems fail. All societies crumble. All worlds end. In the authoritarian Federation, there is a plot to assassinate and replace the President, a man…

In 1943, German SS officers in charge of Auschwitz-Birkenau ordered that an orchestra should be formed among the female prisoners. Almost fifty women and girls…

From the acclaimed author of In the Shadow of the Empress comes the thrilling chronicle of two of the most influential and glamorous women in…

'A voice of great honesty and energy' ANNE ENRIGHT 'There are very few writers that I admire more than Helen Garner' DAVID NICHOLLS 'It is…

'Even if you've never picked up a weight, Stronger is for you' - Arnold Schwarzenegger No matter how you think of yourself - strong or…

The received wisdom in quantum physics is that, at the deepest levels of reality, there are no actual causes for atomic events. This idea led…

A BOOK OF THE YEAR IN TIME, THE DAILY MAIL, THE INDEPENDENT, GOOD HOUSEKEEPING AND THE ATLANTIC 'Like Edward St Aubyn and Anne Enright, Hamya…

A BEST BOOK OF 2024 IN STYLIST, DAILY MAIL, THE I, IRISH TIMES, SUNDAY TIMES AND RED A GUARDIAN SUMMER READING PICK 'One of the…

A spellbinding look at the history of the world through the stories of twelve carpets Beautiful, sensuous, and enigmatic, great carpets follow power. Emperors, shahs,…

'FUNNY, GRIPPING AND COMPASSIONATE' DOLLY ALDERTON 'A REAL TREAT . . . BASICALLY BRIDGET JONES IN IRAQ' THE TIMES 'THIS SMART, PUNCHY BOOK IS DESTINED…

FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE QUEEN'S GAMBIT - NOW A MAJOR NETFLIX DRAMA 'TEVIS WRITES ABOUT POOL WITH POWER AND POETRY AND TENSION' WASHINGTON POST…

Canon Daniel Clement has suffered a secret humiliation and to recover takes respite at the monastery where he was a novice. But the monastery doesn't…

'Some wrong was done long ago. It can never be righted, and it has not been forgotten. Someone remembers it.' London, 1894. Inspector Henry Cutter…

The classic study of alienation, creativity and the modern mind 'Excitingly written, with a sense of revelation' GUARDIAN 'Exhaustive, luminously intelligent' OBSERVER THE OUTSIDER was…

'Chinese' or 'Any other Asian'. The boxes that people of vastly varied East and South East Asian heritage have to tick when declaring their ethnicity…

The Scramble for Africa astonished everyone. In 1880 most of the continent was ruled by Africans, and barely explored. By 1902, five European Powers (and…

We All Come Home Alive is the story of a life told through the moments which remade it - from car crashes to first kisses,…

A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF 2024 'ACCESSIBLE AND CONVINCING' - SALLY ROONEY Capitalism by its very nature puts us at odds with the environment.…

'A first-class work of reporting [and] a work of compassion for Indigenous peoples everywhere' BENJAMIN MOSER, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of SONTAG 'A non-fiction novel of…

*A brand new and updated edition for 2024, including the latest insights on diet and weight management drugs, gene editing, cancer testing, anti-ageing, ultra-processed foods…

'Seriously wise, seriously wonderful, seriously comic - your life will be richer for it' Katherine Heiny Guido and Vicent - third cousins and best friends…

'Warm, wise, witty, and just plain fun' Maggie Shipstead At a perfectly ordinary cocktail party, Francis is introduced to Billy and - although it slips…

'If you've ever been in a relationship with another person, if you've ever had a family, you need to read this book' Ann Patchett Polly…

The American mafia has long held powerful sway over our collective cultural imagination. But how many of us truly understand how a clandestine Sicilian criminal…

EVEN ANGELS HAVE THEIR DEMONS . . . PARIS, CHRISTMAS 2021. After a heart attack, Mathias Taillefer wakes up in hospital with a stranger at…

'A wondrous wonderful achievement' STEPHEN FRY Longlisted for The Anglo-Hellenic League Runciman Award 2025 The Seven Wonders of the World were staggeringly audacious impositions on…

'Groundbreaking' Sunday Times 'Beautifully written and elegiac . . . a masterpiece' Damien Lewis, Sunday Times bestselling author Since the inception of the Secret Service…

It is Christmas Day and at Champton Rectory, Canon Daniel Clement and his mother Audrey are joined by the residents and guests of the big…

'Anyone who wants to understand contemporary Germany must read The Granddaughter now' Le Monde 'The great novel of German reunification' Le Figaro 'A masterpiece' Maurice…

For centuries, English country gentlemen had collected exotic pictures for their saloons and rare books for their libraries. By the end of the seventeenth century,…

AN ORIGIN STORY BOOK 'Provides clarity, scholarship, wit and essential insight into why our world is the way it is' Adam Rutherford 'I wish I…

A glittering official history of British Vogue, telling the magazine's story from the first issue in 1916 right up to the present day, written with…

AN ORIGIN STORY BOOK 'Provides clarity, scholarship, wit and essential insight into why our world is the way it is' Adam Rutherford 'I wish I…

AN ORIGIN STORY BOOK 'Provides clarity, scholarship, wit and essential insight into why our world is the way it is' Adam Rutherford 'I wish I…

BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR WIRED | LA TIMES | FINANCIAL TIMES | WASHINGTON POST | GLOBE AND MAIL USED IN EVIDENCE IN THE TRIAL…

WATERSTONES FICTION BOOK OF THE MONTH FOR OCTOBER 2024 THE MILLION-COPY BESTSELLER BARACK OBAMA'S BOOK OF THE YEAR PICK AMAZON.COM NO.1 BOOK OF THE YEAR…

THE FOURTH VOLUME OF MICHAEL PALIN'S BESTSELLING DIARIES A new millennium, and a new chapter for Michael Palin unfolds. With a Hemingway travel project testing…

Thoroughly updated and revised for 2024, JERUSALEM: THE BIOGRAPHY is the history of the Middle East through the lens of the Holy City and the…

An outstanding debut novel of fractured family relationships in modern Sri Lanka, from the author of the Women's Prize-winning Brotherless Night 'Beautifully written' Financial Times…

In The Story of Scandinavia, political scholar Stein Ringen chronicles more than 1,200 years of drama, economic rise and fall, crises, kings and queens, war,…

Oxford thought it was at war. And then it was. After the horrors of the First World War, Oxford looked like an Arcadia - a…

Thoroughly updated and revised for 2024, JERUSALEM: THE BIOGRAPHY is the history of the Middle East through the lens of the Holy City and the…

After arriving in London just before the Second World War as a penniless and friendless Austrian-Jewish refugee, George Weidenfeld went on to transform not only…

The fascinating story of an unconventional, bisexual and powerfully loving relationship and a unique portrait of gender and feminism - with a new introduction from…

The second volume of diaries from one of Britain's best-loved national treasures. After a live performance at the Hollywood Bowl, The Pythons made their last…

The funny, warm and moving diaries of a man at the centre of one of the world's most influential comedy troupes. Michael Palin's diaries begin…

A rollercoaster ride driven by the Palin hallmarks of humour, curiosity and a sense of adventure. Michael Palin was not the BBC's first choice for…

The hydra rears its many heads in a flurry of teeth and poisonous fumes. The cyborg lays waste to humanity with a ruthless, expressionless stare.…

Arsenal is special. Its multicultural fandom reflects a changing city and a unique relationship with Black British popular culture. Thanks to its decades of fielding…

From the author of bestselling sensation Small Pleasures comes a life-affirming exploration of love, loneliness and the quiet forces that shape our lives. 'Just as…

'I can't think of a more enjoyable or more illuminating guide to Cornwall than Petroc Trelawny, who knows it intimately, loves it deeply, and shares…

Walter Tevis is widely regarded as a master for both his gritty poolhall novels and his brilliant rendering of the world of competitive chess. This…

'Banal Nightmare will end summer with a bang. It's about turning 37 and realising you hate everybody you know. So funny, so smart, utterly vicious…

'Enthralling and gloriously honest' SUNDAY TIMES The captivating letters by the most idiosyncratic, witty and irrepressible of the notorious Mitford sisters. Here's what readers are…

Napoleon warned 'Let China sleep; when she wakes, she will shake the world'. Lawrence James's magisterial history analyses the relationship between Britain and China between…

The last member of Operation Valkyrie - the daring plot to assassinate Hitler - tells his remarkable story. 'Astonishing' Daily Telegraph 'The last of its…

'Promises a new route through the parenting wilds' Sunday Times 'Powerful, honest and reassuring' Professor Gina Rippon 'A vital new narrative . . . Meticulously…

The author of The Most Fun We Ever Had returns with a brilliantly observed family drama, in which a long marriage faces imminent derailment from…

'A master of historical crime fiction' Guardian 'A writer in full command of his subject' Mail on Sunday 'Martin's novels are works of literature, not…

'A meaty comedy with a bleeding heart, highly recommended for all animals who read' Joshua Cohen, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Netanyahus Herschel Caine is…

'One of the most marvellous books I've read in years' Rivka Galchen, author of Atmospheric Disturbances 'A bacchanal of familial entanglements, as beautiful as it…

'History is made up of myths,' writes the renowned Russian dissident journalist Mikhail Zygar. 'Alas, our myths led us to the fascism of 2022. It…

For over five decades Beth Lynch has been drawn back, over and again, to a rocky spot on the North Cornwall coast. Her earliest memories…

The climate crisis has escalated beyond our worst nightmares. Raging wildfires sweep through the Swedish countryside, turning vacationers into climate refugees. And yet, against this…

The breathtaking historical fantasy set onboard the Great Trans-Siberian Express 'Imagine a crossover between Murder on the Orient Express, Game of Thrones and Paradise Lost…

THE DARKLY HILARIOUS AND BRILLIANTLY WISE NOVEL FROM THE AUTHOR OF SAD JANET **** All her life, Susan's loved ones have been hiding a terrible…

Every morning, ecologist Tim Blackburn is inspired by the diversity contained within the moth trap he runs on his roof. Beautiful and ineffably mysterious, these…

IN THE LATEST INSTALLMENT OF THE ACCLAIMED EASY RAWLINS SERIES, EASY IS SENT DOWN MEMORY LANE... BLINDING HIM TO REASON AND RISK, MAKING THE RIGHT…

'Stunning' i paper 'Dangerously readable' Observer 'Electrifying' Sunday Times Novelist J.B. Blackwood is on a cruise with her husband, Patrick, to celebrate their wedding anniversary.…

'THE FRENCH SUSPENSE KING' NEW YORK TIMES 'ONE OF THE GREAT THRILLER WRITERS OF OUR AGE' DAILY EXPRESS 'IT'S NO WONDER THAT GUILLAUME MUSSO IS…

'One of the greatest books I've ever read. Its heart is strange, but it is huge; let yours beat in response' MARY GAITSKILL Pale Fire,…

SHORTLISTED FOR BEST SPORTS WRITING AT THE 2024 SPORTS BOOK AWARDS In parks, on downlands and heaths, by motorways, overlooking firths: the racecourses of Britain…

From the outset, Caroline Lamb had a rebellious nature. From childhood she grew increasingly troublesome, experimenting with sedatives like laudanum, and she had a special…

'Deeply researched and written with verve... thoughtful as well as action packed' The Times 'Gripping, moving and important' Simon Sebag Montefiore 'Agent Zo is a…

'A stunningly good and surely definitive biography of one of the most fascinating British engineers ever to have lived' JAMES HOLLAND Barnes Wallis is remembered…

A TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 'Enchanting and haunting' RACHEL RODDY 'A fable for our times' SPECTATOR 'This novel amazed me. It is the…

'A beautiful, deeply philosophical book about reading as a form of existential consolation' Literary Review 'Acute and tender . . . alive with discovery and…

'Written in a lively, accessible style, The Waiting Game is full of insight' Suzannah Lipscomb, Literary Review Every Tudor Queen had ladies-in-waiting. They were her…

Cairo, 1942: If you had asked a British officer who Colonel Clarke was, they would have been able to point him out: always ready with…

SHORTLISTED FOR THE ROYAL SOCIETY TRIVEDI SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE 2024 'Fascinating, witty and perspective-shifting' Oliver Burkeman 'A remarkable book about a remarkable theorem' Will Storr…

As the Second World War moves beyond living memory and its last veterans leave us, we are in danger of losing our opportunity to understand…

'A brilliant contemporary novel' Colm Tóibín 'I am fully in awe of Dolan's talent' Douglas Stuart 'I cannot tell you how much I enjoyed it'…

WINNER OF THE 2024 SOMERSET MAUGHAM AWARD Its name means 'centre of the world', and since the dawn of history the Mediterranean Sea has formed…

'The reason why the 80-day journey retains its appeal is that it is still the minimum time needed to go round the world and notice…

'It was a journey of dazzling extremes. Beauty and ugliness, sophistication and squalor, unceasing urban noise and monastic tranquillity . . . This is a…

'The Sahara embodies scale and mystery, the thin line between survival and destruction, the power to take life or to transform it . . .'…

'For most of my lifetime, half of my own continent had been chilled by a Cold War and concealed behind an Iron Curtain. Now there…

'The reason why the 80-day journey retains its appeal is that it is still the minimum time needed to go round the world and notice…

'Once a traveller, always a traveller, and as long as there were maps and guide books and airline schedules I was still fatally susceptible to…

'It was a journey of dazzling extremes. Beauty and ugliness, sophistication and squalor, unceasing urban noise and monastic tranquillity . . . This is a…

'Home seems impossibly far away as we step out onto a rough base of ice and snow. The temperature is -25°C. This is considered warm…

'Hemingway's world was close and uncomfortable and itchy and sweaty and frequently exhausting . . . This stuff was too good to be wasted on…

'A battleground of immense geological forces that is a centre of human tectonics as well, with sacred and secular, tradition and technology, all pushing up…

There's the world you can see. And then there's the one you can't. Welcome to The Morningside. The Morningside was once the jewel of Island…

Winner of the 2024 TLS Ackerley Prize 'Part poignant memoir of time and place. Part record of the violence, and indifference, against which most girls…

A unique cocktail of personal memoir, cultural criticism and Hollywood history by the one and only Quentin Tarantino. The long-awaited first work of nonfiction from…

'Lets us see how power really worked, in public and private ... Stothard tells this story superbly' Dominic Sandbrook, SUNDAY TIMES 14 CE: The first…

'GAVE ME SERIOUS WRITER ENVY' KIRSTY LOGAN 'ONE OF MY FAVOURITE STORYTELLERS' KIRAN MILLWOOD HARGRAVE 'AN INCREDIBLE AND UNIQUE IMAGINATION' IRISH TIMES 'I WAS DELICIOUSLY…

The book that inspired the major documentary Edward vs George: The Windsors at War Power and Glory begins with the fallout from the revelation of…

'In the wake of the strongest earthquake in Italy for nearly forty years and the many aftershocks that followed, Italians began speaking of the earth…

Why do some prime ministers manage to get things done, while others miserably fail? What is a 'special adviser' and how did they take over…

Last Word is the popular BBC Radio 4 series broadcast weekly, featuring the lives of several famous people who have recently died. More than standard…

'A jewel of a novel about a perfect family falling apart' DAVID NICHOLLS 'The Children's Bach is Garner's masterpiece' PUBLIC BOOKS 'A perfect novel. I…

'This is the biography - truthful, sympathetic and thorough - that Coward deserves' DAILY TELEGRAPH The voice, the dressing-gown, the cigarette in its holder, remain…

'A powerful, elegant page-turner' J.M. Lee 'Gentle yet piercing' Kirkus Reviews After losing her daughter in a tragic accident, Hon returns to her childhood home…

'Dreamy, immersive and evocative' TLS 'Darkly beautiful' Frances Cha 'Strange and gripping' Guardian San is twenty-two and alone when she happens upon a job at…

ONE OF THE BBC'S 100 NOVELS THAT SHAPED OUR WORLD 'Seductive as hell. Brilliant, unusual, breathtaking' Lauren Groff 'There are very few writers that I…

ONE OF THE GUARDIAN'S 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURY 'This House of Grief, in its restraint and control, bears comparison with In Cold…

'[A] gripping and fascinating book' JAMES HOLLAND, DAILY TELEGRAPH, 5* review 'A brilliant book . . . timely . . . gripping' RACHEL COOKE, OBSERVER…

'An empathetic and necessary corrective to the stereotypes peddled by so many sensational true crime shows' Oprah Daily Anna Motz is one of the most…

Includes a new foreword by Rob Rinder What readers are saying about HOLOCAUST JOURNEY: 'Brilliant ... A must read for everybody' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'Devastating' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'Fascinating,…

THE NEW NOVEL FROM THE NO.1 BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF MURDER BEFORE EVENSONG CANON DANIEL CLEMENT IS BACK... It's been a few months since murder tore…

'Compulsively readable' New York Times 'Utterly original' Alberto Manguel In the small and the insignificant - that's where life hides, that's where it builds its…

Winner of the 2023 David J. Langum, Sr. Prize in American Historical Fiction 'A breathtaking tale of love and war' Telegraph 'Moore's voice is cool…

'Some smuggle cigarettes, others alcohol - or weapons. Our contraband, being invisible, is more dangerous. Our contraband is undetectable by scanners. What we carry as…

AN ECONOMIST BEST BOOK OF 2024 'Masterful and entrancing - this is big history at its best.' Professor Alice Roberts, author of Ancestors 'A real-life…

'My secrets - the secrets that everyone has - are here, in black and white.' Before Alfred Hitchcock adapted her debut novel, Strangers on a…

'Endlessly intriguing . . . I was enchanted' - DAILY TELEGRAPH 'Illuminating in every sense of the word' - John Higgs In an illuminating blend…

'STRIKING, ETHEREAL AND TRANSCENDENT' NEW YORK TIMES 'THIS BOOK WILL LEAVE YOU BREATHLESS' BRYN GREENWOOD No heart is safe on the savage side. Arcade and…

'This riotous and engaging biography has it all' GUARDIAN 'As much fun to read as a good political thriller' WALL STREET JOURNAL The book that…

- 'Illuminating . . . an important book' Sunday Times - 'A fascinating journey through the social, cultural and historical meanings of breastfeeding. A sublime…

A New Statesman Best Book of the Year 2023. A Waterstones Book of the Year 2023. An Economist Book of the Year. One of Smithsonian…

Pre-order Ray Nayler's brand-new speculative thriller Where the Axe is Buried, coming soon! 'I loved this novel's brain and heart' DAVID MITCHELL, AUTHOR OF CLOUD…

'The best thing to happen to mystery writing in a very long time' NEW YORK TIMES Isaiah Quintabe's first love, Grace, has been kidnapped by…

'Think The Devil Wears Prada with paintbrushes' Grazia Lacey Yeager is beautiful, captivating, and ambitious enough to take the New York art world by storm.…

'Martin' s prose shows that he has comic talent to burn' The Times 'It's like reading PG Wodehouse on acid or Monty Python on Valium:…

ONE OF THE BBC'S 100 NOVELS THAT SHAPED OUR WORLD WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE AND THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD In rural Georgia, sisters Celie…

A BRAND NEW KING OLIVER NOVEL FROM THE AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR OF DOWN THE RIVER UNTO THE SEA Joe King Oliver is entangled in a dangerous…

The classic elegant English typeface, still widely used as a book text more than 250 years since its creation. Baskerville is a transitional design, poised…

In 2009, Rachel Cooke started a monthly column for The Observer on cooking and eating: here are her fifty best. In Kitchen Person, unfussy eater…

Comic Sans is one of the most used and most reviled typefaces of the digital age. How was it made? How could it spawn a…

'This book is heaven. Elspeth Barker writes like no one else' OLIVIA LAING 'Deserves to be permanently on the bedside table - to cheer, reassure…

One of the most beautiful handcrafted typefaces in the world, Albertus is also one of the most enduring. The face of thousands of book jackets,…

Explorers and travellers have always been attracted by the lure of the unknown. By traversing and mapping our planet, they have played a vital role…

From the iconic, award-winning artist and designer, a graphic memoir of leaving Cuba, becoming American, and fighting for freedom, here and there. 'Exhilarating, immensely powerful,…

In the face of Taliban oppression, one girl's unwavering defiance sparked a worldwide movement. Shot in the head for daring to seek an education, Malala…

'A mix of urbane wit and surreal extrapolations - Douglas Adams meets Flann O'Brien' Independent Who else but Steve Martin could combine irrefutable evidence that…

FOREWORD BY WINONA RYDER Tune in, turn on, drop out. So said Timothy Leary, global figurehead for sixties psychedelic culture and 'the most dangerous man…

One of the highly praised Lakeland poets, alongside his friend William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge was a founder of the Romantic movement in England. His…

'Another world must be unfurled, Another language known' Best known - and beloved - for her highly popular novels including Pride and Prejudice, Emma and…

From the highly controversial Leaves of Grass, with its overt sexual imagery and delight of sensual pleasures, to the iconic Captain, oh my captain immortalised…

If I should die, think only this of me: That there's some corner of a foreign field That is for ever England. From The Soldier…

'How do I love thee? Let me count the ways' Elizabeth Barrett Browning was a poet of passion, wit and conscience. She was also a…

The best-loved, bestselling poem ever published - a poem that embraces the theme 'seize the moment' 'One thing is certain, that Life flies; One thing…

Following the death of her beloved mother Jennifer Worth in 2011, Suzannah Worth discovered amongst her manuscripts a folder simply labelled 'Fifth Book'. Imagine her…

'Smart, analytical and enormously good fun' Stuart Maconie, Mail on Sunday 'Ingenious . . . conjures a whole cultural history of the past six decades'…

'Witty and geekily eclectic' The Times An erudite and amusing exploration' Financial Times 'Full of jawdropping facts' Mail on Sunday 'Remarkable . . . engrossing'…

Harold Wilson is the only post-war leader of any party to serve as Britain's Prime Minister on two separate occasions. In total he won four…

Harold Wilson is the only post-war leader of any party to serve as Britain's Prime Minister on two separate occasions. In total he won four…

'Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all' Aristotle 'Knowing yourself is the mark of all wisdom' 'You will never do…

'The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts' Bertrand…

'Courage is knowing what not to fear' Plato 'One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed…

'What experience and history teaches us is that people and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it' 'What…

'Judge a man by his questions, rather than by his answers.' Voltaire Voltaire was one of the first philosophers to be commercially successful internationally. Famous…

'The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.' Descartes 'It is not enough to have a…

'A splendid, exciting book' Daily Mirror 'The story of the first all-out struggle in Asia between Communism and the West, vividly told in an exciting…

The true story of a sensational marriage and murder in 17th-century London. For fans of THE SUSPICIONS OF MR WHICHER and GEORGIANA: DUCHESS OF DEVONSHIRE…

'Sarah Thankam Mathews' prose is undeniable . . . she captures the sneaky, unsaying parts of longing' Raven Leilani, author of Luster 'Some books are…

'Magnificent. Complex, wise, unsentimental and very moving' Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 'Dense, lyrical and deeply unsettling' New York Times 'A fine balance between poetic tenderness and…

THE TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR ONE OF THE ECONOMIST'S BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER From the master storyteller and…

'The best non-fiction book I've ever read. It's magical. Stunning' Dan Schreiber, No Such Thing As a Fish 'A pop biography for people who don't…

'Absolutely delicious . . . Janelle Brown is a surgeon of the complex relationships between women. I gobbled this up' Emma Straub, New York Times…

FROM THE WINNER OF THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE and author of EAST WEST STREET THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Should be read by anyone who…

In June 1948, the SS Empire Windrush docked in Tilbury, carrying with it the hopes and dreams of hundreds of young men and women from…

'A Swallows and Amazons adventure for the modern day by one of the most interesting travel writers working today' Bijan Omrani, author of Caesar's Footprints…

A life of the prophet Muhammad by bestselling author Karen Armstrong. 'Armstrong has a dazzling ability: she can take a long and complex subject and…

'Barnett's well-crafted backlist is big on emotional acuity and this novel is no different, forging from Christina's grief an insistence that we think more creatively…

'I loved The Ballast Seed. I couldn't put it down. Beautiful and sad and hopeful all at once - luminous and lush, full of dirt,…

'Shows girlhood as it really was: brutal and tender, intimate and lonely, magical and utterly gross' Anna Beecher 'Sensual and dirty, absurdist and tragic. Abreu's…

HOW A BOOKSELLER INSPIRED A NATION The diary of a publicist-turned bookseller who left Florence to open a tiny bookshop on a Tuscan hill. 'Like…

'This is my earliest memory. I am three years old and I sit in the bottom of my great-uncle's pot boat and take off the…

'Beautiful' Nigella Lawson 'I adored it' Dolly Alderton 'Wonderful' Lisa Taddeo 'Intoxicating' Abi Morgan What happens when your story doesn't end the way you thought…

'Although he writes about queer lives and loves in Nigeria, Arinze Ifeakandu's voice is sensually alert to the human and universal in every situation. These…

'I love this woman's writing. Golden sentences' Diana Evans 'Witty, fiery, wistful and even shocking, with engrossing heady prose, Campbell's style is unique' Irish Independent…

'A masterpiece of history' DAILY TELEGRAPH Between 1917 and 1921 a devastating struggle took place in Russia following the collapse of the Tsarist empire. Many…

'Dazzling' Fernanda Melchor 'A brilliant debut' Vogue 'Bright and brimming with sisterhood. Overwhelmingly beautiful' El Cultural A mother and her child embark on a canoe…

'Moving and inspiring, courageous and true: real art. Just reading her is pleasure' Amy Liptrot, author of The Outrun What happens when you realise that…

'Racily enjoyable' Daily Telegraph 'De Courcy brilliantly recreates the heady spirit of Cunard's Paris . . . You feel she really might have been there'…