Two teens stare down death, unafraid to laugh.
The final volume in the author's celebrated Patrick Melrose cycle faces pain with wit and unflinching honesty.
An award-winning reporter's "uncompromising and important" new look at daily life in a Mumbai slum.
Eight new stories from an emerging master of the form seek "the narrow strait between hilarity and heartwreck."
The great novelist, in love with the life of the streets.
A Swedish ensemble brings together Henry Purcell, Nick Drake and Leonard Cohen
The author of Charles Dickens: A Life on what happens "when you live with Dickens for years."
Tales of love between plain Janes and their beautiful beaus.
An odd couple falls in, then out of, love.
A new book sheds fresh light on the much-maligned "introvert".
When life becomes frighteningly unrecognizable, is it better to cling to the familiar -- or let go?
An unclassifiable musician on a life spent transmuting suffering into music.
A wannabe-fashionista becomes a victim of national-security paranoia in this darkly comic novel.
"Insecurity and uncertainty rule the day" in this portrait of a love affair.
Two new books grapple with teen pregnancy, practicality, and prejudice.