From childhood, Katherine knows she is different, and that her parents are not who they seem to be. But as she grows up and...

Since the death of Ragnvald Eysteinsson's father in battle, he has worked hard to protect his sister Svanhild and planned to...

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...

The scent of freshly baked biscuits, lemon and aniseed reminds Elettra of her mother's kitchen. But her mother is in a coma, and...

Impromptu in Moribundia is a satirical fable about one (nameless) man's trespass (through a fantastical machine called the...

West Kensington - grey area of rot, and caretaking, and cat-slinking basements. West Kensington - drab asylum for the driven and...

Measuring out the wartime days in a small town on the Thames, Miss Roach is not unattractive but no longer quite young. The...

In Craven House, among the shifting, uncertain world of the English boarding house, with its sad population of the shabby genteel...

Joe Coughlin is untouchable. Once one of America's most feared and prominent gangsters, he now moves effortlessly between the...

The one with Mma Ramotswe's summer holiday . . .

Mma Ramotswe is taking a break, leaving important tasks in the capable hands...

Growing up in Zagreb in the summer of 1991, 10-year-old Ana Juric is a carefree tomboy; she runs the streets with her best...

Sebastian von Eschburg, scion of a wealthy, self-destructive family, survived his disastrous childhood to become a celebrated if...

Barcelona, 1952: General Franco's fascist government is at the height of its oppressive powers, casting a black shadow across the...

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

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

Knotshead is a school catering for the children of the rich, famous, liberal - and deluded. With its progressive curriculum,...

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

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

Clover has loved James for as long as she can remember, since before she knew what what love was. But fate seems determined to...

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...

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...

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

The one where Mma Makutsi has a love rival . . .

Mma Makutsi's engagement to Phuti Radiphuti has progressed smoothly so far,...

In Espresso Tales, Alexander McCall Smith returns home to Edinburgh and the glorious cast of his own tales of the city, the...