Fiction based on or inspired by true events

Strandloper

A captivating novel by the author of the 2022 Booker Prize-shortlisted Treacle Walker

Empire of the Sun

The classic, heartrending story of a British boy’s four year ordeal in a Japanese prison camp during the Second World War. Newly reissued with an introduction by John Lanchester.

Butter

THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING SENSATION

WINNER OF WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024

SHORTLISTED FOR THE BRITISH BOOK AWARDS DEBUT NOVEL OF THE YEAR 2025

A BBC BETWEEN THE COVERS BOOK CLUB PICK

The Beholders

‘Held me completely in its thrall until the very last line’ SUSAN STOKES-CHAPMAN

‘I was hooked from the start’ DAILY MAIL

A SUNDAY TIMES HISTORICAL FICTION BOOK OF THE MONTH

A TIMES BESTSELLER

SHORTLISTED FOR THE HISTORICAL WRITERS’ ASSOCIATION DEBUT CROWN PRIZE

Witness

‘Brinkley’s sentences are daggers’ RAVEN LEILANI

‘Extraordinary … moving, compelling and virtuosic’OBSERVER

‘A triumph’ COLIN BARRETT

Dark Earth

‘Magical and evocative’ Imogen Hermes Gowar, author of The Mermaid and Mrs. Hancock

‘Heartachingly poignant’ Lucy Holland, author of Sistersong

To Battersea Park

‘A brilliantly conceived and audacious novel from one of our most consistently intelligent and beguiling writers’ William Boyd

‘Surefooted and emotionally generous … A serious achievement’ Guardian

‘Masterful’ Telegraph

M: Son of the Century

THE PHENOMENAL INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER

‘An anti-fascist history lesson disguised as a novel’New York Times

‘Extraordinary’TLS

‘The novel Italy has been waiting for. A masterpiece’ Roberto Saviano

Dark Earth

‘Superb … radically new and beautiful’ Observer

‘Magical and evocative’ Imogen Hermes Gowar, author of The Mermaid and Mrs. Hancock

‘Heartachingly poignant’ Lucy Holland, author of Sistersong

Dr. B.

The former director of the Museum of Modern Art in Stockholm makes his literary debut with this dramatic and riveting novel of book publishing, émigrés, spies, and diplomats in World War II Sweden based on his grandfather’s life

The Mirror and the Light: RSC Stage Adaptation

Hilary Mantel and Ben Miles’ exhilarating stage adaptation of The Mirror and the Light, one of 2021’s must-see theatrical events, and the long awaited conclusion to the Oliver Award-winning Wolf Hall Trilogy.

Risk of Harm

The gripping new crime thriller from the bestselling author of Before We Met and Critical Incidents

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