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A.L. Barker dissects the unnerving emotions of everyday life with the sly humour and exquisite feel for language that prompted...

The scene is Naples, against whose ancient and fantastic background the modern action takes place.

Among the protagonists is...

Caro, gallant and adventurous, is one of two Australian sisters who have come to post-war England to seek their fortunes. Courted...

Twelve-year-old Hans Thomas lives alone with his father, a man who likes to give his son lessons about life and has a penchant...

Zenia is beautiful, smart and greedy, by turns manipulative and vulnerable, needy and ruthless; a man's dream and a woman''s...

Set in the cities and islands of the Mediterranean, and linked thematically, the eight stories in The Foxes Come at Night read...

‘Everything changed after Mama found Father lying on top of another woman.’

Blessing and her brother Ezikiel adore their...

The newspaper was founded in Rome in the 1950s, a product of passion and a multi-millionaire’s fancy. Eccentric and beloved, it...

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...

Annabel Christopher is every inch the star: a glamorous actress with a devoted, handsome husband. To keep the paparazzi and her...

Lila, homeless and alone after years of roaming the countryside, steps inside a small-town Iowa church - the only available...

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...

Jack Boughton - prodigal son - has been gone twenty years. He returns home seeking refuge and to make peace with the past. A bad...

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...