It's 1951 and India's first female detective has been sent in disgrace to the Naga Hills, only to find a decapitated politician in a locked room of her hotel.
Inspector Gamache, hoping to take time to recuperate after his acts of heroism in The Grey Wolf, returns to his peaceful home village - only to be dragged into a lethal game of cat and mouse... read more
How Christianity has faded from the centre-stage of our culture, and how this loss undermines our democratic and civic values - equality, suffrage, social justice. A valiant argument for how... read more
The story of the C9th Pope Joan is brought to life in this frolic through early Medieval Europe. We follow the gifted, motherless Agnes from an unconventional childhood all the way to the to... read more
Adept and powerful novel set in the West Country in 1962, in which two couples with shadowed pasts gradually unravel in the snow... Miller is an ingenious novelist who writes consistently we... read more
A huge novel of sibling rivalry and the push-me-pull-you of inhabiting two cultures, spanning thirty years and three continents. Khemiri teaches creative writing on the prestigious NYU cours... read more
From the author of the jauntily entitled Death of a Bookseller comes a new mystery that seems destined to be accompanied by a perky Noel Coward earworm.
The Vatican; a private coastal church in Japan; rural Greek monastery; a Baptist church in the American South... FB-G's range is wide, his charm constant.
In 2006, when Mulligan was teaching at a North London school and moonlighting at weekends in the TA, he was called up to serve in Iraq. This memoir is relentlessly funny, bleak and mordant b... read more
Besides the great importance of his Pens?es for Christians and philosophers, by the time of his death at 39 Pascal had also achieved major advances in mathematics and probability theory... e... read more
Following the success of Tiepolo Blue (2022), Cahill's new novel takes us deeper still into the international contemporary art world and its fragile, clashing egos.
A biography of an extraordinary and tenacious woman - the Victorian proto-feminist who campaigned for women's education, rights and suffrage, and for the abolition of child prostitution and ... read more
Clever and elegant, this dons' delight (Bowra, Berlin, Cecil) was a niece of Winston Churchill, a friend of Beaton, Berners, Connolly, Waugh, Garbo and Korda. She married the much older Anth... read more
Nikolai Vavilov was the great Russian agronomist who dedicated his life to the improvement of cereal crops and created the world's largest seed bank at Pavlosk. During the Siege of Leningrad... read more
Adept and powerful novel set in the West Country in 1962, in which two couples with shadowed pasts gradually unravel in the snow... Miller is an ingenious novelist who writes consistently we... read more
Tiny, working-class gay... Gossipy and funny, this memoir shows how many obstacles and prejudices this mighty dancer and choreographer overcame to achieve all that he has.
In October 1960, James Baldwin diagnosed the trouble with American society as 'a failure of the masculine sensibility.' This is a study of the relationship of Tennessee Williams, Carson McCu... read more
A fascinating look at the way 29 European internal borders were made and have shifted; while some of these reflect the faultlines of old horrors, they also offer new hope. Perceptive and ext... read more