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An engrossing narrative that explores what the behaviour of apes can teach us about ourselves and each other

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An epic, spellbinding novel of rebellion, redemption, power and humanity, and of a Black community finding freedom to live an ordinary life of love and pain in America's darkest days.

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A novel of brilliance, imagination, intrigue and style -- about the painter Velazquez and his royal subject and benefactor, King Philip IV of Spain.

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Funny, bizarre and shocking anecdotes about the oddity of everyday life

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A big-think book which tells the riveting story of GPS (Global Positioning System) and how it is affecting our brains, our technology, and our culture, in the tradition of James Gleick and Nicholas Carr.

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Cameron's eyewitness accounts of the atom bomb tests at Bikini atoll, the Chinese invasion of Tibet and the war in Korea; and vivid evocations of his encounters with Mao Tse-tung and Winston Churchill

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An insider capable of revealing his city's spirit and its reality, Ivan Vladisavic combines the eloquence of Jan Morris on Trieste with the precision of Henri Cartier-Bresson on Paris.

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A classic of Russian poetry, comprising fifty portraits of the great creative figures (some of them celebrated, many of them disappeared or suppressed) of Soviet culture.

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A dazzling debut story collection about the disaffection and spiritual longing in contemporary America, from a remarkable new talent.

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A memoir travelling back into Beattie's Ulster past, reflecting on how the secretarian divide effected his own

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Part literary mystery, part biography, part curiosity, here is the short, charming (and true) story of one man's obsession with Marcel Proust, and his decades-long quest to collect everything that once belonged to the writer - right down to his overcoat.

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Reading Chekhov is a literary pilgrimage, homage, travelogue, biography, literary criticism and a restrained love letter all rolled into one . It is the work of an iridescent and sympathetic imagination' The Times

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A rousing and inclusive call to arms for anyone who would identify themselves as English against the forces of globalisation.

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This affectionate portrait of the 'Red Princess' by her granddaughter uses letters, diaries and interviews to recreate a vanished world and also explore the author's own Russian roots.

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A haunting and elegiac love story set in a spoiled paradise, as vital and as relevant today as when it was first published.

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A compilation of 35 years' worth of critical essays from one of the boldest and most articulate cultural theorists of our time.

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A career-defining collection from one of America's most significant poets, never before published in the UK.

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This is a uniquely agile and endearing debut about a single girl in Paris, who works in fashion and calls upon the saints to help her find the perfect man.

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'A skilful, moving, even humorous book. It is more than an elegy for a lost mother or the charting of one human being's decline . It is an investigation of memory, which concludes that Memory, I have come to understand, is everything, it's life itself' - Scotland on Sunday

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A rising star of contemporary British poetry reflects on race, culture, memory and identity in his first full-length collection.

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An update on Akenfield, the English village of Ronald Blythe's best-selling book, showing how village life has changed in 35 years.

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From an award-winning travel writer, this is an evocative journey around some of the country's most ancient sites and ritual places, and a profound exploration of the relationship between man and the landscape.

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Writer Sinclair describes artist Lichtenstein's journey into the past in search of an east European Jew who disappeared in the '60s; his room, left undisturbed in London's East End for 20 years, forms the basis of an art project in June.

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A warm-hearted, tender novel about marriage, fatherhood and playing the tuba.