A wonderfully accessible literary novel, that draws on Iran's rich literary heritage but which always remains engaging and very...

The Athenian Murders is a brilliant, very entertaining and absolutely original literary mystery, revolving round two intertwined...

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

Set 100 years ago in Boston, Fortune's Rocks is a classic of literary and romantic storytelling.
Fourteen-year-old Olympic...

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

At eighteen, Emma Kenward runs away from her dull Sloane home to try her luck as a painter in Tuscany. Waspish, idealistic and...

Mathematics student G is trying to resurrect his studies, which is proving difficult as he finds himself - and not for the first...

Ten days after the station closed, he was informed he'd been officially suspended pending a hearing over allegations of gross...

Monday 10 June, end of a hot day. The city had started drinking at lunchtime and by 3 or 4pm crime seemed the only appropriate...

A grandfather who learns to let go. A grandson who learns to love.

Eighty-five years old, a rebel, a retired boxer, Napoleon...

The last time Tess de Vere saw William Benson she was a law student on work experience. He was a twenty-one year old, led from...

Berlin, 1946. Everything is in short supply. Including the truth.

The war is over, but Berlin is a desolate sea of rubble....

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

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

Wartime Liverpool is a place of ration books and jobs in munitions factories. Rita, living with her two aunts Nellie and Margo,...

In 1035, a young fifteen year old Viking is dragged wounded from the battle. Left for dead, for the next twenty years his...

On the second floor of the famous F. G. Goode department store, in Ladies’ Cocktail Frocks, the women in black are girding...

To the casual observer, the great enlightened city of Edinburgh, home of no-nonsense philosophers and cream teas, might appear...

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

The senior pupils of St Peter s High School are on retreat to a secluded outdoor activity centre, coming to terms with the murder...

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...

At an inn in the Berkshire Mountains of western Massachusetts, seven former schoolmates gather for a wedding. Nora, the owner of...

The Secret Purposes, David Baddiel's third novel, takes us into a little-known and still somewhat submerged area of British...

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

It is 1950 and the Liverpool reporatory theatre company is rehearsing its Christmas production of Peter Pan, a story of childhood...

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

The year is 1929 and Honora Beecher and her husband, Sexton, are just settling into a new marriage and a cottage on the coast of...

According to Queeney is a masterly evocation of the last years of Dr Johnson, arguably Britain’s greatest Man of Letters. The...

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