Beginning with The Crow Trap, the Vera Stanhope series is the bestselling and critically-acclaimed collection of crime novels set in Northumberland, written by award-winning author Ann Cleeves. The ...

Sure, there’s something to be said for parceling a doorstopper novel into tidy, respectable chunks, but beyond that project lies another reading experience entirely: the one-sitting novel.

But their lives will be upended and changed forever by the conflict to come. This classic war novel of the First World War is written in the first person by a young German soldier. Paul Bauer is just ...

The latest novel by Tim Winton (twice shortlisted for the Booker prize) is Juice, and it begins in a deceptively familiar, even clichéd fashion. A man and a young girl in a futuristic ...