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'Lynne Reid Banks' compassionate first novel examines the stigma of unmarried motherhood in pre-pill, pre-Abortion Act Britain......

'Her brilliance in capturing the ripples on the surface of family life gives her a claim to be the Jane Austen of our age' Daily...

Michael and Pauline seemed like the perfect couple - young, good-looking, made for each other.

The moment she walked into his...

When Klara appears in Paris, two months after the end of the war and years after her disappearance into Auschwitz, her best...

Though as cunning as ever, the formidable Skullion - previously head porter, now elevated to Master - is showing signs of...

Timothy Brights doesn't exactly live up to his name. Brought up to regard copious flows of money as his birthright, he can't...

In Piemburgem, the deceptively peaceful-looking capital of Zululand, Kommandant van Heerden, Konstabel Els and Luitenant Verkramp...

Henry Wilt is no longer the victim of his own uncontrolled fantasies. As Head of a reconstituted Liberal Studies Department he...

Wilt is back - in form, and in a good deal of trouble.

Henry Wilt is still teaching at the Fenland Tech, attempting to drill...

Since the ascendancy of the Taliban the lives of Mosheen and his beautiful wife, Zunaira, have been gradually destroyed....

Stifled by the torpor of colonial South Africa and trapped in a web of reciprocal oppression, a lonely sheep farmer seeks comfort...

For thirty-five year old Charlotte Emory, leaving her husband seems to offer the only way out from the mundaneness of every day...

Joyce Stevenson is thirteen when her widowed mother takes them to live with Aunt Vera, a formidable teacher neglected by her...

Smooth-talking, sensual and self-deluded, Gregory Riding leads an existence of formidable foppishness, his days and nights a...

Watching a rented video, Tertuliano Maximo Afonso is shocked to notice that one of the actors is identical to him in every...

A gripping time-slip novel by the author of the 2022 Booker Prize-longlisted Treacle Walker

Here John Turner was cast away in...

Every week, a writer of political propaganda and a professional blood donor meet for dinner. They are unlikely friends - one of...

Two boys grow up in Thomaston, upstate New York. One of them gets away to Italy, where he becomes a painter. The other stays to...

Mike Engleby has a secret...

This is the story of Mike Engleby, a working-class boy in the seventies who wins a place at an...

What do men run away from? Not war, not physical hardship, but the day-to-day emotional demands of impossible domestic...

Charles Highway is every mother’s worst nightmare.

Precociously intelligent, mercilessly manipulative and highly sexed,...

Tod. T. Friendly is living his life backwards.

Doctor Friendly has just died, but after weeks of improving in the hospital, he...

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Overstory, an enthralling, wrenching novel about the lives and choices of one...

'A very funny, bitterly intelligent novel...do read it' Malcolm Bradbury

Sefton Goldberg: mid-thirties, English teacher at...

From the moment that Gjorg's brother is killed by a neighbour, his own life is forfeit: for the code of Kanun requires Gjorg to...

Cipriano Algor, an ageing potter, lives with his daughter and her husband in the shadow of the Centre, a nebulous, constantly...

What begins as the record of W. G. Sebald’s own journey on foot through coastal East Anglia, from Lowestoft to Bungay, becomes...

What could possibly connect Stendhal's unrequited love, a series of murders by a clandestine organisation, the Great Fire of...

It is the summer of 1936, the early months of the agonising civil war that engulfs Spain and shakes the rest of the world. In a...

Realising that his New Year is probably going to be a disaster, as usual, our narrator, on impulse, walks into a travel agency to...