Falling in love with the Great British Public

As Britain wakes up to a new Prime Minister, and the first coalition government since World War 2, Michael Foley, author of Age of Absurdity, takes a light-hearted look at the secrets of success of David Cameron and Nick Clegg in the election that we can now finally say is finished.

A preview of Lights Out in Wonderland by DBC Pierre

Lights Out in Wonderland is the spectacular third novel from Booker Prize winner DBC Pierre, one of the great fantastical storytellers of his generation.

An interview with Sue Armstrong, author of A Matter of Life and Death

Sue Armstrong is a science writer and broadcaster living in Edinburgh, who has undertaken a variety of assignments writing reports for the World Health Organisation and UNAIDS. Here she talks about her book exploring the vital work of pathologists, which really is A Matter of Life and Death.

Read the first chapter of The Thousand Autumns of Jacob De Zoet

Ahead of its publication on the 13th May, read the first chapter of David Mitchell’s long-awaited new novel.

Read an extract from Ghosts and Lightning by Trevor Byrne

Happy or unhappy, all families are a mystery. None more than the Cullens. Having escaped their clutches and moved across the water, Denny is just beginning to make a life for himself when a call from his sister brings him back to Dublin, city of his birth. Back to square one.

Jenny Uglow talks to George Miller about A Gambling Man

Acclaimed biographer Jenny Uglow’s previous subjects have included Thomas Bewick and Elizabeth Gaskell. In A Gambling Man she takes on risk-taking Charles II and the regime changing Restoration – inspired, as she explains, by recent events.

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Jarvis Cocker reads a story from David Eagleman’s Sum

In this startling book, David Eagleman shows us forty possibilities of life beyond death. With wit and humanity, he asks the key questions about existence, hope, technology and love. These short stories are full of big ideas and bold imagination – hear Jarvis Cocker read Descent of Species.

Watch a trailer for David Mitchell’s long-awaited new novel

David Mitchell’s novels have captivated critics and readers alike, as his Man Booker shortlistings and Richard & Judy Book of the Year award attest. Now he has written a masterpiece. The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet is the kind of book that comes along once in a decade…

Hector and the Search for Happiness video interview

Hector and the Search for Happiness, which has sold well over 2 million copies worldwide, has just been published in English. George Miller met the author, Francois Lelord, recently to find out more about this modern-day fable. This short video is the result.