The Giant, O’Brien
From the author of Wolf Hall, Bring Up the Bodies and The Mirror & the Light, comes the true story of the 18th Century Irish giant, Charles O’Brien, who was exhibited in London and eventually dissected by the surgeon John Hunter.
Fiction based on or inspired by true events
Burley Cross Postbox Theft
From the Man Booker Prize shortlisted author of Darkmans comes a comic epistolary novel of startling originality and wit.
Burley Cross Postbox Theft: Unabridged edition
From the award-winning author of Darkmans comes a comic epistolary novel of startling originality and wit.
Word Virus: The William Burroughs Reader
William Burroughs was one of post-war America’s most controversial and influential writers. This is the authoritative, indispensable anthology of his greatest work.
The Many Deaths of the Firefly Brothers
Jason and Whit Fireson, the notorious, bank-robbing duo known as the Firefly Brothers, wake to find themselves lying on cooling boards in a police morgue. Riddled with bullet wounds, the reality is inescapable: they’ve been killed. But they’re alive.
The Many Deaths of the Firefly Brothers
Jason and Whit Fireson, the notorious, bank-robbing duo known as the Firefly Brothers, wake to find themselves lying on cooling boards in a police morgue. Riddled with bullet wounds, the reality is inescapable: they’ve been killed. But they’re alive.
Millennium People
Violent rebellion comes to London’s middle classes in the extraordinary new novel from the author of ‘Cocaine Nights’ and ‘Super-Cannes’.
Friendly Fire
The new book from Alaa Al Aswany, author of the international bestsellers The Yacoubian Building and Chicago
Accordion Crimes
The third novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of ‘The Shipping News’, ‘Accordion Crimes’ spans generations, continents and a century and confirms the hallucinatory power of Proulx’s writing.
In Search of Klingsor
Already an international bestseller, ‘In Search of Klingsor’ traces an American physicist’s thrilling search to unmask Hitler’s chief science advisor, the man whose work on the German atomic bomb threatened Allied security.
The Vagrants
The much-anticipated first novel from the Guardian First Book Award-winning Chinese writer.
The Binding Chair
‘This is a tale as absorbing and exciting as Arthur Golden’s Memoirs of a Geisha.’ Sunday Express The magical tale of a young orphan’s adventures after she flees rural China for turn-of-the-century Shanghai. From Kathryn Harrison, author of the bestselling memoir THE KISS.
Disguise
Hugo Hamilton, the internationally acclaimed author of ‘The Speckled People’ and ‘Sailor in the Wardrobe’, turns his hand back to fiction with a compelling drama tracing Berlin’s central historical importance throughout the twentieth century.
Me Cheeta: The Autobiography
The incredible, moving and hilarious story of Cheeta the Chimp, simian star of the big screen, on a behind-the-scenes romp through the golden years of Hollywood.
As heard on Radio 4, starring Jon Malcovich and Julian Sands.
The Man from Saigon
“After all the stories of battles and deaths, of torture and loss and hatred, someone should tell this one, too, about a man who moved among them, who seemed to love them.”