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When Patrick Modiano was awarded the 2014 Nobel Prize for Literature he was praised for using the 'art of memory' to bring to...

You are at a nightclub talking to a girl with a shaved head. The club is either Heartbreak or the Lizard Lounge. All might become...

Tip and Teddy are becoming men under the very eyes of their adoptive father, Bernard Doyle. A student at Harvard, Tip is happiest...

Young Londoners Becky, Harry and Leon are leaving town in a fourth-hand Ford Cortina with a suitcase full of money. They are...

Somewhere on the French Riviera, tucked between glitzy Monte Carlo and Cannes' red carpets, lies the pretty town of...

A dreamer who can start a revolution

For the past two hundred years the Scion government has led an oppressive campaign...

There came an elastic aftershock of creaks and groans and then, softly softly, a chinking shower of rubbled cement. Leaves calmed...

Corrine Calloway is a young stockbroker on Wall Street, her husband Russell an underpaid but ambitious publishing editor. The...

When lovelorn Annie McDee stumbles across a dirty painting in a junk shop while looking for a present for an unsuitable man, she...

Theresa is desperate for a change. Forced into early retirement and fed up with babysitting her bossy daughter's obnoxious...

Thomas Maggs, the son of the local publican, lives with his parents and sister in a village on the Suffolk coast in 1914. He is...

It is the 1960s and Canon Sidney Chambers is enjoying his first year of married life with his German bride Hildegard. But life in...

Eleven-year-old Harrison Opoku, the second best runner in Year 7, races through his new life in England with his personalised...

When Patrick Modiano was awarded the 2014 Nobel Prize for LIterature he was praised for using the 'art of memory' to bring to...

In 1919 Emily Ehrlich watches as two young airmen, Alcock and Brown, emerge from the carnage of World War One to pilot the very...

From Subhash's earliest memories, at every point, his brother was there. In the suburban streets of Calcutta where they wandered...

It is December in Belfast, Christmas is approaching and three sets of people are about to make their way to Amsterdam.

Alan, a...

A Wonder Woman and bride-to-be finds herself worse for wear at the end of a hen night; a funeral director's love of Manchester...

Vienna, 1913. Lysander Rief, a young English actor, sits in the waiting room of the city's preeminent psychiatrist as he...

Ada Howard, the wife of the preacher at Nashville's Full Love Baptist Tabernacle, has a whole lot of people to take care of....

Julian Treslove, a professionally unspectacular former BBC radio producer, and Sam Finkler, a popular Jewish philosopher, writer...

Freetown, Sierra Leone, 1969.

On a hot January evening that he will remember for decades, Elias Cole first catches sight of...

New York, August 1974: a man is walking in the sky.

Between the newly built Twin Towers, the man twirls through the air. Far...

One May evening in London, as a result of a chance encounter and a split-second decision, the young climatologist Adam Kindred...

Jem is a joyful mystery to Alice: a whirl of glamour, subversion and literary references. And when she disappears from Alice's...

Sisters Ellen and Lydia live out an idyllic girlhood in Oxford, their wayward adventures of no concern to their passive, donnish...

In 1954 a fisherman is found dead in the nets of his boat, and a local Japanese-American man is charged with his murder. In the...

Beginning in America, and spilling back over memories and generations to India, Unaccustomed Earth explores the heart of family...

A mother and father, estranged for years, are travelling across Europe to their daughter's wedding. Vibrant, beautiful Ninon has...

Jane Charlotte has been arrested for murder. During questioning, she tells the police that she is a member of a secret...