From the wooden horse of Troy to the Gulf War, military history has been as much marked...
Writing
General writing
Aldous Huxley’s profoundly important classic of world literature, Brave New World is a searching vision of an unequal, technologically-advanced...
There are countless books about the great rock/pop icon of the 20th century David Bowie. But there’s...
Winner of the Whitbread Novel Award and the Guardian Fiction Prize A life without freedom to choose...
The six hundred passengers and crew members aboard a jumbo jetliner are left without a destination and...
During a vicious persecution of the clergy in Mexico, a worldly priest, the ‘whisky priest’, is on...
‘I was spotty, wore an anorak, had biro-engraved flared blue jeans with “purple” and “Sabbath” written on...
Pandora’s Star is the first part of Peter F. Hamilton’s epic Commonwealth Saga duology – a fantastic galaxy-spanning novel from...
The bodies never stay buried forever . . .’ On a freezing winter morning, fishermen pull a...
‘Every page of Deighton’s work glows with the excitement of discovery … wonderful’ Geoff Dyer, Guardian This unflinching...