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A story in the Arctic from the world of His Dark Materials and The Book of Dust by master storyteller, Philip Pullman. ‘Lyra Silvertongue, you’re very welcome . . . Yes, I know your new name. Serafina Pekkala told me everything about your exploits’ Lyra and her daemon Pantalaimon have left the...
But when he invents an imaginary sister to win the attention of a rich but unreliable ‘friend’, and then falls in love for real, undergraduate life becomes its own strange world . ‘Absolutely contemporary – perhaps even prophetic.’ Joyce Carol Oates’Remarkable .
Set in the USA, a chilling modern horror story from the bestselling author of the Bernie Gunther series of prize-winning historical thrillers
It’s the sweltering summer of 1944, and Newark is in the grip of a terrifying epidemic. Decent, athletic twenty-three year old playground director Bucky Cantor is devoted to his charges and ashamed with himself because his weak eyes have excluded him from serving in the war alongside his...
Now a major motion picture starring Sarah Gadon, Logan Lerman and Ben Rosenfield, and adapted for the screen by James SchamusDuring the second year of the Korean War in 1951, studious, law-abiding Marcus Messner is beginning his sophomore year on the conservative campus of Ohio’s Winesburg College.
Tells an universal story of loss, regret and stoicism. In this novel, the fate of Roth’s everyman is traced from his first shocking confrontation with death on the idyllic beaches of his childhood summers, through the family trials and professional achievements of his vigorous adulthood, and into...
‘This swift, elegant, disturbing novel…stands at the extreme of contemporary fiction’ New York Times Book ReviewHe is a middle-aged American writer called Philip; In Philip’s London studio, this play of voices – sharp, tender and inquiring – reveals both their past lives with startling clarity.
Berlin detective Bernie Gunther bows out at last in the 14th and final instalment of this internationally bestselling and award-winning series featuring ‘one of the greatest anti-heroes ever written’
Florence, 1466. A lust for life, a passion for power and a taste for adventure…
Retribution is the second book in this sensual trilogy, moving from the Yorkshire Dales to the beautiful landscapes of Saudi Arabia
A sweeping story of love, catharsis and conservation from the Dales of Yorkshire to the hills of Chyulu in Kenya.
An affair has unintended consequences. Everything works out - except in the end. In the meantime, concentrate on temptations of the flesh; on naked desire. Being properly damned brings its own joy: that's what Richard Meadows is thinking on his way to the city dump to retrieve his wife's favourite...
The devastating rediscovered classic written from the horrors of Nazi Germany, as one Jewish man attempts to flee persecution in the wake of Kristallnacht. Germany, November 1938: Otto Silbermann receives a knock on his door and realises he must flee. A respected German-Jewish businessman, he has...
Based on the stories contained in this volume, the ten-part anthology series, Philip K. Dick’s Electric Dreams is written and executive produced by Emmy-nominated Ronald D. Moore (Battlestar Galactica, Outlander) and Michael Dinner (Justified, Masters of Sex), with Oscar nominated Bryan Cranston...
Winter 1936. A man and his wife have been shot dead in their bed. The woman’s father, a millionaire industrialist, wants justice – and the priceless diamonds that disappeared along with her life. As Bernie follows the trail into the cesspit that is Nazi Germany, he’s forced to confront a horrifying...
Ex-Policeman Bernie Gunther thought he’d seen everything on the streets of 1930’s Berlin. And even after the war, amidst the decayed, imperial splendour of Vienna, Bernie uncovered a legacy that made the wartime atrocities look lily-white in comparison.
Simon Axler is one of America’s leading classical stage actors, but his talent – his magic – has deserted him. It is only when he begins an affair with Pegeen – formerly a lesbian of 17 years – that Axler’s regeneration (and then his final catastrophe) can begin.
It is 1954 and Bernie Gunther is in Cuba. Tiring of his increasingly dangerous work spying on Meyer Lansky, Bernie acquires a boat and a beautiful companion and quits the island. But the US Navy has other ideas
Never before published in the UK: a gripping, masterful alternative history thriller from the author of the Bernie Gunther novels
A phenomenal bestselling author meets the most magical stories ever told, now in a beautiful clothbound classics edition In this stunningly designed book of classic fairy tales, award-winning author Philip Pullman has chosen his fifty favourite stories from the Brothers Grimm and presents them in a...