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The last time Tess de Vere saw William Benson she was a law student on work experience. He was a twenty-one year old, led from...

Impromptu in Moribundia is a satirical fable about one (nameless) man's trespass (through a fantastical machine called the...

West Kensington - grey area of rot, and caretaking, and cat-slinking basements. West Kensington - drab asylum for the driven and...

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...

Joe Coughlin is untouchable. Once one of America's most feared and prominent gangsters, he now moves effortlessly between the...

As summer blooms in Edinburgh's gardens and Bertie Pollock's birthday appears on the horizon, all at 44 Scotland Street is not...

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

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

As the wife of a Resistance member in German-occupied Belgium, Claire Daussois has grown used to hiding strange men in her attic....

History is gossip,' says a protagonist in Washington, D.C., 'but the trick is determining which gossip is history.' It is a trick...

A wonderful bittersweet story about a misguided do-gooder

Eliza Peabody is one of those dangerously blameless women who...

Two Cultures. Two Families. Two People. Yasmin Ghorami has a lot to be grateful for: a loving family, a fledgling career in...

From plantation to plantation, Almeyda, a young slave girl, hears whispers, rumours of Palmares, a hidden settlement where...

From plantation to plantation, Almeyda, a young slave girl, hears whispers, rumours of Palmares, a hidden settlement where...