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A train stops at a railway station. A young woman jumps off. She has wild hair, sloppy clothes, a distracted air. She looks...

Lillian, a single, well-travelled woman of a certain age, wakes up next to her married lover and looks back at her life. It's not...

Cecilia Banks has a great deal on her plate. But when her son Ian turns up on her doorstep with the unexpected consequence of a...

A kiss, a touch. A smile and a beating heart. Love and sex and dreams, art and drugs and the madness of youth. Betrayal and...

Welcome to LA. City of contradictions.

It is home to movie stars and down-and-outs. Palm-lined beaches and gridlock. Shopping...

Sebastian Zollner is set on writing the biography of the painter Manuel Kaminski.
Yet Kaminski – once a pupil of Matisse, now an...

Meet Penelope O'Shaughnessy, Harvard freshman.

Armed with her Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights poster and party conversation...

Seventeen-year-old Alan can't stand rows. But, though the Second World War has ended, peace hangs by a fine thread at home: his...

Grizel Dane, a bold young servicewoman in the US army, arrives at the London home of her great-uncle Sir Rollo Dane seeking...

'The motto was Pax but the word was set in a circle of thorns. Peace, but what a strange peace, made of unremitting toil and...

Harriet is caught between two worlds: her older sister is no longer a playmate, her brother is still a little boy. And the...

High in the Himalayas near Darjeeling, the old mountaintop palace shines like a jewel. When it was the General's 'harem' palace,...

When Rainclouds Gather: Escaping South Africa and his troubled past, Makehaya crosses the border to Botswana, in the hope of...

In Muriel Spark's fantastic first novel, the only things that aren't ambiguous are her matchless originality and glittering...

Seven months into her pregnancy, Rachel discovers that her husband is in love with another woman. The fact that this woman has a...

In affairs of the heart the race is not necessarily won by the swift or the fair.

Imogen, the beautiful and much younger wife...

Art, reality and the strange ways the two imitate one another are at the core of Muriel Spark's delightful Loitering with Intent,...

One October evening five London couples gather for a dinner party, enjoying ‘the pheasant (flambe in cognac as it is)’ and...

Under his railway arch in Loughborough Junction, South London, Robert Sutton is taking leave of a lifetime of hard work. His...

At the age of five, a blind African-American boy is handed over to a brutal state home. Here Ludlow Washington will suffer for...

In 1964, two years after the critically lauded release of his debut novel A Different Drummer, William Melvin Kelley published...

June, 1957. One afternoon, in the backwater town of Sutton, a young black farmer by the name of Tucker Caliban matter-of-factly...

The bestselling author of The Lemon Tree Hotel returns with an enchanting new summer read about family bonds and following your...

Almost-true stories for a post-truth world

Wrong! Not Nice! Sad!

A Manhattan party on election night. Liberal media types...

A woman on the edge of the sea finds a girl on the edge of life.

On the flooded coast of Cornwall, Ia Pendilly ekes out a...

Sophie is only a quarter Italian. But that quarter is her charismatic grandfather Cesare, and he has instilled in her a great...

A heart-warming tale of sibling rivalry, secrets, love and death, steeped in local colour and noise and tender in its depiction...

They were the Amazing Telemachus Family, who in the mid-1970s achieved widespread fame for their magic and mind reading act. That...

When Sarah falls for Matthew, she falls hard.

So it doesn't matter that he's twenty years older. That he sees her only in...

Nancy de Freitas is the glue that holds her family together. Caught between her ageing, ailing mother Frances, and her struggling...