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Lewis Little, precocious thirteen-year-old, is spending summer in Paris with his mother, Alice.

Alice is translating the...

From the Booker Prize winning author of Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha and The Commitments: the story of an ordinary woman whose...

A satiric trilogy about the last days of English Colonialism in Malaya in 1950s.

'Like all good comic writers Mr Burgess lives...

Barrytown, Dublin, has something to sing about.

The Commitments are spreading the gospel of the soul. Ably managed by Jimmy...

Enter Louis de Bernieres' magical, tragic and hilarious South American odyssey.

When the spoilt and haughty Dona Constanza...

Ball games, cars, and romances: the icons and battlefields of modern life. In twenty-two linked stories, with infinite humour and...

The story begins on the Italian coast in 1962. A young innkeeper watches in disbelief as a beautiful American girl gets out of a...

It begins and ends with a sacrifice...

It was a time of brutal tyranny and occupation. Young men and women took to the streets...

2013's most talked about debut comes out in paperback

Meet the Sais, a Nigerian-Ghanaian family living in the United States. A...

Two pensioners and a whippet sail their English narrowboat down America's 1,000 mile long Atlantic Intracoastal...

The hilarious true story of two pensioners and their whippet who sail from Stone in Staffordshire to Carcassonne in the South of...

Having pursued a conventional enough path through school and university, Jason Webster was all set to enter the world of academe...

The war on drugs has been lost but for want of the courage to face the fact that the whole world is rapidly becoming one vast...

Merrion Palmer has been Judge Guy Stockdale's mistress for the last seven years and his wife and two grown-up sons know...

For eight-year-old Rufus life has become complicated. His parents, Josie and Tom, have divorced and are setting off on separate...

On a peat and heather island off the west coast of Scotland, Effie and her mother Nora take refuge in the large mouldering house...

A family in crisis. A catalyst that threatens to change everything...

The land running down to the River Dean has been farmed...

It's 1991. Raymond Marks is a normal boy, from a normal family, in a normal northern town. Only lately, he's been feeling dead...

Does 'friends' ever really mean just 'friends'?

Gina and Laurence have been the best of friends ever since they were...

'The doctor was fated to go back to Bombay; he would keep returning again and again - if not forever, at least for as long as...

In a spirited opening piece, John Irving explains how he became a writer. There follow six scintillating stories written over the...

Two lives intertwined and seemingly harmonious. One decision that changes everything.

Lizzie and Frances are twins, together...

Only a miracle can unite a congregation in turmoil...

In the gentle precinct of Aldminster Cathedral, crisis looms.

The...

At first their ages made no difference...

Julia Hunter and Kate Bain have found true happiness with men old enough to be...

It's never too late to find your own way

For twenty years, Anna Bouverie, as a priest's wife, has served God and the parish in...

One encounter and life is never the same again...

The Logans were an enchanting and admirable couple. Archie had snatched Liza...

Would you take a chance and set something in motion that could change everything?

The Grey House is the final piece in the...

Four strong women. All working in a family business. But what happens when they begin to want different things? And what about...

Summer, 1972: In the claustrophobic heat, eleven-year-old Byron and his friend begin 'Operation Perfect', a hapless mission to...

When Harold Fry nips out one morning to post a letter, leaving his wife hoovering upstairs, he has no idea that he is about to...