Fiction based on or inspired by true events

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

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

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.

'Held me completely in its thrall until the very last line’ SUSAN STOKES-CHAPMAN, bestselling author of Pandora

‘A well-researched and thoroughly convincing page-turner’ LAURA SHEPPERSON, bestselling author of The Heroines

A SUNDAY TIMES HISTORICAL FICTION BOOK OF THE MONTH

‘Brinkley’s sentences are daggers’ RAVEN LEILANI

‘Extraordinary … moving, compelling and virtuosic’OBSERVER

‘A triumph’ COLIN BARRETT

‘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

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

‘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

‘Riveting’ Margaret Atwood

‘I loved this book intensely’ Lauren Groff Guardian

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

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.

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