The author of Love Objects and An Isolated Incident turns to historical fiction to tell the story of a young ninth-century ...

Rodney Hall has won the Miles Franklin Award twice; his new novel is a panoramic alternative history of the twentieth century ...

The author of Everyone In My Family Has Killed Someone returns with another witty homage to the Golden Age of crime fiction.

Novelist Amitav Ghosh turns to non-fiction to chart the greed and racism at the heart of British and American opium sales to ...

The author of Everyone In My Family Has Killed Someone returns with another witty homage to the Golden Age of crime fiction. There’s a whiff of unseriousness around some whodunnits. Many readers still ...

Eric Beecher’s vital new book provides a history of world journalism, good and bad, with a pessimistic view of the future.

Harriet Constable’s debut novel takes inspiration from a real-life Venetian prodigy who was both a student of and rival to Vivaldi. Anna Maria della Pietà is destined for greatness. At eight, she ...