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Measuring out the wartime days in a small town on the Thames, Miss Roach is not unattractive but no longer quite young. The...

In Craven House, among the shifting, uncertain world of the English boarding house, with its sad population of the shabby genteel...

Growing up in Zagreb in the summer of 1991, 10-year-old Ana Juric is a carefree tomboy; she runs the streets with her best...

Sebastian von Eschburg, scion of a wealthy, self-destructive family, survived his disastrous childhood to become a celebrated if...

Berlin, 1946. Everything is in short supply. Including the truth.

The war is over, but Berlin is a desolate sea of rubble....

Filth (Failed In London, Try Hong Kong) is a successful lawyer when he marries Elisabeth in Hong Kong soon after the War....

This gripping, moving and hiliarious novel introduces seven characters, each of whom has a profound effect on each other s lives....

Clover has loved James for as long as she can remember, since before she knew what what love was. But fate seems determined to...

Released from prison after serving his sentence for the assisted death of his wife, his health failing and his chronic impatience...

Alice and her husband, Jake, own a barbecue restaurant in Austin, Texas. Hardworking and popular in their community, they have a...

Brighton 1969: Dottie Perks steps off the train and breathes in the sea air, the smell of fish and chips, and the precious...

Norman is the clever one of a close-knit Jewish family in the East End of London. Infant prodigy; brilliant barrister; the apple...

Wartime Liverpool is a place of ration books and jobs in munitions factories. Rita, living with her two aunts Nellie and Margo,...

As well as its advantages, there are drawbacks to the enlightened village that is twenty-first-century Edinburgh, where every...

A wonderfully accessible literary novel, that draws on Iran's rich literary heritage but which always remains engaging and very...

To the casual observer, the great enlightened city of Edinburgh, home of no-nonsense philosophers and cream teas, might appear...

Long-suffering child genius Bertie Pollock has much to contend with in the latest instalment of life at 44 Scotland Street, not...

The senior pupils of St Peter s High School are on retreat to a secluded outdoor activity centre, coming to terms with the murder...

In Espresso Tales, Alexander McCall Smith returns home to Edinburgh and the glorious cast of his own tales of the city, the...

An exciting and atmospheric novel which will continue to expand the audience for Simon Mawer

As Dee Denham, once a beautiful...

It is a wet day in Dorset, and walking to a luncheon party is Sir Edward Feathers QC, followed by two elderly friends: his...

The Secret Purposes, David Baddiel's third novel, takes us into a little-known and still somewhat submerged area of British...

The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency introduced the world to the one and only Precious Ramotswe - the engaging and sassy owner of...

Rob and Jamie are great friends from childhood. They have grown up together and become top climbers, but have since become...

According to Queeney is a masterly evocation of the last years of Dr Johnson, arguably Britain’s greatest Man of Letters. The...

Marigold Green calls herself 'hideous, quaint and barmy'. Other people calle her Bilgewater, a corruption of Bill's daughter....

The murder of a media moghul in his country mansion appears to be the result of him disturbing a gang of would-be thieves. The...

For the four fraught, mysterious days of her doomed maiden voyage in 1912, the Titanic sails towards New York, glittering with...

Marnus is terrified he will not fulfil the expectations of his elite Afrikaner family who are certain of their superiority. But...

Sir Alfred Munnings, retiring President of the Royal Academy, chooses the 1949 Annual Banquet to launch a savage attack on Modern...