First the young schoolboy, gloriously immersed in make-believe in a shabby farmyard; then the budding poet with his thrilling...

Torday... , Torday...

Andrew Landford, MP is driving home one night along a dark country lane when a barn owl flies into his windscreen. It is an...

You don't remember her… but she remembers you.

Two women; two different worlds.
Emma is a struggling mother who has put...

Frances is a thirty-something lowly sub-editor, but her routine, colourless existence is disrupted one winter evening when she...

It all began with the whale.

When a young man washes up on the sands of St Piran in Cornwall, it is clear to the villagers...

Broken-hearted Joan has been searching for her missing husband, Victor, for almost a year - ever since he went missing on the...

Delhi, 1946.
Ma and Bappu are liberal intellectuals teaching at the local university. Their fourteen year-old daughter -...

I was twelve when the coat was made. Nathan, our tailor and dear friend, cut it for Grandfather in the first week of March 1938....

The false cold of the theatre makes it hard to imagine the heavy wind outside in the real world, the ash air pressing onto the...

Ezekiel "Easy" Porterhouse Rawlins is an unlicensed private investigator turned hard-boiled detective always willing to do what...

It was just as she suspected: love turned you into perfect mush.

Guido is not in the habit of falling in love with women he...

Los Angeles - a city of scheming Malibu actresses, ruthless gang members, virulent inequality and washed-out police.
Roaming the...

Cissie is a stand-up comedienne and national darling.
Helena is the toast of Broadway.
Maggie is an extremely beautiful but...

Julian Fellowes' Belgravia is the story of a secret. A secret that unravels behind the porticoed doors of London's grandest...

'We look on past ages with condescension, as a mere preparation for us... but what if we are a mere after-glow of them?'
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'For a while he watched the butterflies which still swooped and fluttered in this little glade, impervious to the bombs that had...

Leyli Maal is a beautiful Malian woman, mother of three, living in a tiny apartment on the outskirts of Marseille.

Her quiet...

Sylvie, Jude, Wendy and Adele have a lifelong friendship of the best kind: loving, practical, frank and steadfast. But when...

On a hot day in late June, a young girl kneels outside a convent, then falls on her face. When the nuns take her in, they name...

When March Briscoe returns to East Texas two years after he was caught having an affair with his brother's wife, the Briscoe...

Two Friends
Wynn and Jack have been best friends since their first day of college, brought together by their shared love of the...

Arky Levin, a film composer in New York, has promised his wife that he will not visit her in hospital, where she is suffering in...

The President tells the story of a ruthless dictator and his schemes to dispose of a political adversary in an unnamed country...

Within the Tokyo underworld there is an industry which exists to break up marriages. It is known today as wakaresaseya - agents...

'For a while he watched the butterflies which still swooped and fluttered in this little glade, impervious to the bombs that had...

In the streets of Rome, Vicki Wilson's lovers keep turning up dead.

Vittoria, as she's known in Italy, is a small-time...

A portrait painted in blood. A valley shrouded in secrecy. A woman fighting for her life.
'The Sleeping Nymph': a work of art of...

Magda is a former scientist with a bad temper and a sharp tongue, living alone in a huge house by the sea and getting through...

Isaiah Quintabe - the genius PI who combines book smarts, street smarts and enough blistering action to melt the pavement of East...

A missing mother leads IQ on a hunt to track down a bunch of dangerous paramilitary killers. The latest in the award-winning...