It is 1953, a heat wave is sweeping across America and the Grossmans – Ben, Addie and their two children –are moving their lives from the political heart of Washington DC to suburban Long Island. Benny was a successful lawyer in the Department of Justice, but all that has come tumbling down. With the McCarthy era of paranoia, persecution and propaganda at its height, his past has come back to haunt him, forcing him to pack up his family and […]
Glasgow, 1957. It is a December night and William Watt is desperate. His family has been […]
The shadow of a tree in upstate New York. A hotel room in Switzerland. A young […]
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In these “urgently relevant essays,”* the National Book Award–winning author of Between the World and Me […]
Irene Bobs loves fast driving. Her husband is the best car salesman in rural south eastern […]
Meet Horace Hopper, a twenty-one-year-old farm hand in Tonopah, Nevada, who works for Mr Reece and […]
Mark Renton is finally a success. An international jet-setter, he now makes significant money managing DJs, […]
The thrilling twenty-fifth instalment in Peter Robinson’s Number One bestselling Banks series, in which Banks and […]
A blazingly intelligent first collection of essays from the award-winning author of Open City and Every […]
The dazzling second novel in Ali Smith’s essential Seasonal Quartet — from the Baileys Prize-winning, Man […]
Six weeks to write for your life… In this blistering story of a ghostwriter haunted by […]
From the New York Times-bestselling author of The Interestings, an electric novel not just about who we want […]
David Lynch – co-creator of Twin Peaks and writer and director of groundbreaking films such as […]
A prescient interwar masterpiece, available in English for the first time ‘Absolutely, definitively alone’, a young […]
Blood and Land is a dazzling, panoramic account of the history and achievements of Native North […]
Live Long Enough is No 20 in the New Garland Series of poetry books, now published […]
Two weeks before his death, Oliver Sacks outlined the contents of The River of Consciousness, the […]
From the bestselling author of Everything I Never Told You, a riveting novel that traces the intertwined fates […]
The battered and exhausted Britain of 1945 was desperate for workers – to rebuild, to fill […]
Every memoir is a battle between reality and invention – but in her follow up to […]
Rose and Rahel met in 2010 while attending the Lee Strasberg Institute in New York City. […]
Romy Hall is at the start of two consecutive life sentences, plus six years, at Stanville […]
In The Naked Swiss: A Nation Behind 10 Myths, Clare O’Dea promises to change the way […]
When she is born her parents hand her over to a childless peasant couple in the […]
An adrenaline-charged crime caper that features smart, detailed world-building based on real science and the charm […]
Loudon Wainwright III, the son of esteemed Life magazine columnist Loudon Wainwright, Jr., is the patriarch […]
By the time she was 14, Chrissie Hynde knew she had to get out of Akron, […]
In these pages, Richard Russo returns to North Bath, the Rust Belt town first brought to […]