A far-ranging meditation on snow, touching on physics, chemistry, meteorology, anthropology, geography, poetry and art. By a distinguished Swedish academic.
A rich, atmospheric novel based set among the people and events of the artist's life: his wife, his eldest daughter, and a young Russian emigr?e employed in the household.
Egg-mimicry is one of the cuckoo's clever ways; another is the female's striped undercarriage, like a sparrowhawk's, which help drive dunnocks and warblers away from their nests long enough ... read more
A chance encounter with a map sets Roberts off on another unusual and intrepid exploration: this time a story of colonial Africa, when King Leopold tried to introduce Indian elephants to the... read more
By looking at 24 hours without the privilege of hindsight, AM highlights the tension and horror as the optimism at the operation's outset gave way to disaster.
An artwork is found to contain human bone; a woman lives alone in a house that is cut off at high tide: this is a slow-burn, psychological thriller, told from multiple points of view, with a... read more
A prequel to his bestselling The Partisan, set at the start of the Cold War, when Agent Greta has to find the daughter of a partisan general in the postwar chaos.
A memoir structured round mementos that takes us to Ossie & Celia, Andy, Karl, Diana, Freddie, Diana, Diana, Barbra and many other luminaries, or possibly icons.
Toon defines what exactly 'intelligence' means in respect to AI: how that intelligence is already shaping our world, and how we can use it to think about ourselves.
Hayes' first novel since the huge bestseller I Am Pilgrim is about a CIA man in the badlands - the worstlands - of the North West Frontier region, where he encounters a vicious adversary.
Elizabeth Zott is a gifted chemist who reluctantly becomes America's favourite television chef. Imagine Julia Child in the form of Grace Kelly, wearing a lab coat and goggles... This feel-go... read more
In 2011 Taseer was kidnapped in Lahore by Taliban-affiliated gunmen; only a few months earlier his father, the governer of the province Punjab, had been murdered. It is thought that Taseer w... read more