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

For philosophically minded Isabel Dalhousie, editor of the Review of Applied Ethics, getting through life with a clear conscience...

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

'Her eyes were black, wide as though with some sustained surprise, the skin from their outer corners to her small ears taut. Her...

From its bravura opening onwards, The Crow Road is justly regarded as an outstanding contemporary novel.

'It was the day my...

Isabel Dalhousie leads an enviable life in Edinburgh, with time for cloud-gazing, civilised conversation and good coffee from...

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...

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

In the genteel environs of Corduroy Mansions, Pimlico, strange doings are afoot, mostly in the name of love. Lonely William...

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

With a failed marriage behind her, La - short for Lavender - moves to the Suffolk countryside on the eve of the Second World War...

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...

Isabel Dalhousie is a new mother and a connoisseur of philosophy; she d rather not be a sleuth. But when a chance conversation at...

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

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...

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

Rich or poor, five people, seemingly very different, find their lives in the capital connected in undreamed-of ways. There is...

When Polly and Theo Noble book the Casa Luna, near Cortona, for their summer holiday they plan a civilised Anglo-American...

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

In his startling and singular new short story collection, David Foster Wallace nudges at the boundaries of fiction with...

In these stories, the author renders the bizarre normal and the absurd hilarious, from the eerily real , almost holographic...

Who can guess what a woman will do when the unthinkable becomes her reality From the bestselling author of The Weight of Water,...

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

A wonderful bittersweet story about a misguided do-gooder

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

As the effects of the war raging in Europe begins to be felt at home in London, Monica Dickens decides to do her bit and to...

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