When six-year-old Turtle Greer witnesses a freak accident at the Hoover Dam, her insistence on what she has seen, and her mother's belief in her, lead to a man ...

The Poisonwood Bible tells the story of an American family in the Congo during a time of tremendous political and social upheaval. The story is told by the wife and ...

When Emma Brockes was ten years old, her mother said 'One day I will tell you the story of my life and you will be amazed.'

Growing up in a ...

Julia O'Faolain, one of the most brilliant Irish writers of the past half century, has written a haunting book about her own life and the lives of her remarkable ...

From a correctional facility where he awaits news of his trial, Erik Schroder writes to his estranged wife about the seven day road trip he took with their daughter, Meadow ...

Thomas Bernhard (1931-1989) has been hailed by Gabriel Josipovici as 'Austria's finest post-war writer' and by George Steiner as 'one of the masters of contemporary European fiction.' Faber Finds ...

From the author of Maps for Lost Lovers and The Wasted Vigil comes a searing, exquisitely written novel set in Pakistan and Afghanistan in the months following 9/11 - a ...

From the author of Maps for Lost Lovers and The Wasted Vigil comes a searing, exquisitely written novel set in Pakistan and Afghanistan in the months following 9/11 - a ...

In the winter of 2009, Rachel Cusk's marriage of ten years came to an end. In the months that followed, life as she had known it fell apart. Suddenly ...

'It's often said that the best of the Chekhov plays is the one you've seen most recently. Uncle Vanya doesn't have a suicide, like The Seagull, or ...

In an old mansion in Cennethisar, a former fishing village near Istanbul, an old widow Fatma awaits the annual summer visit of her grandchildren. She has lived in the village ...

In an old mansion in Cennethisar, a former fishing village near Istanbul, an old widow Fatma awaits the annual summer visit of her grandchildren. She has lived in the village ...

Sampath Chawla was born in a time of drought that ended with a vengeance the night of his birth. All signs being auspicious, the villagers triumphantly assured Sampath's proud ...

'One day there is life ... and then, suddenly, it happens there is death.'

So begins The Invention of Solitude, Paul Auster's moving and personal meditation on fatherhood. The first ...

- You're having some kind of crisis.
- It's called being fifty. You must be having it too.

Hilary once protested at Greenham. Now her protests tend to focus on ...

Andrew Motion's first work of biography won a Somerset Maugham Award in 1987.

'The story of the three Lamberts is as cruel and horrifying as any Greek tragedy ... Its ...

Justine and Alan need to get away from it all. And what better way than camping on a farm in the Welsh countryside? So long as that's camping with ...

More than two decades after moving to Saudi Arabia and marrying Abdullah Baylani, Rosalie learns that her husband has taken a second wife. The discovery plunges the powerful family into ...

Just outside Boston, in 1963, Frederick Merrill found himself a patient  in the country's premier mental hospital, a world of structured authority and absolute control - a forced regression to ...

On a cold Northern Californian evening, high on a cliff in the lagoon township of Bolinas, a woman is running, barefoot, toward her open convertible. Behind her in the dark ...