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A ten-year-old girl vanishes without trace from a Fenland village, her body never found. Thirty years on, she comes sharply back to life in the mind's eye of her childhood friend, Tina Humber, who has done her best to put the past behind her. But now, as Tina returns...
An unsettling, darkly humorous tale of teenage girls in a predatory adult world, and a cocktail of lies, jealousy and unworldliness that leads to tragedy.
In the spring of 1938 Elise Landau arrives at Tyneford, the great house on the bay. A bright young thing from Vienna forced to become a parlour-maid, she knows nothing about England, except that she won't like it. As servants polish silver and serve drinks on the lawn,...
A love letter to Jane Austen and to the power of reading by an icon of British literature'Wise and wonderfully funny' The Times'Splendid'Guardian'It should be required reading'New York Times Book ReviewA special new edition of a modern classic, celebrating Jane Austen's...
FROM THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF WHAT I LOVED'Funny, moving and erudite, playfully reminding us of a contemporary Jane Austen'Daily Mail'Astoundingly joyful'Guardian'Alarmingly funny'Times Literary SupplementAfter Mia's husband of thirty years asks for a...
Meet Ella Canfield, highly qualified evolutionary biologist. Attractive, if a little serious-looking in those heavy glasses—but then she's about to put her career on the line. Dr Canfield is seeking funding for a highly unorthodox research project. She wants to prove...
'It is impossible to exaggerate the power of this short, unbearably poignant novel.' Mail on Sunday'A bold and elegant novel' Helen Dunmore, Guardian'A haunting story, beautifully told' Viv Groskop, ObserverAn extraordinary story of love and endurance during the Siege...
Byron Aldridge, heir to a timber empire, returns from the First World War a changed man and finds refuge as a company policeman in a backwoods Louisiana sawmill. Soon his younger brother Randolph tracks him down, assuming charge of the mill in the hope of
It's December 1997, and a man-eating tiger is on the prowl outside a remote Russian village. The tiger isn't just killing people, it's annihilating them, and a team of men and their dogs must hunt it on foot through the forest in the brutal cold. As the trackers sift...
NED BEAUMAN HAS BEEN NAMED AS ONE OF GRANTA MAGAZINE'S BEST OF YOUNG BRITISH NOVELISTS 2013Longlisted for the 2012 Man Booker Prize and shortlisted for the for the Guardian First Book Award, Ned Beauman was chosen by The Culture Show as one of the twelve Best New...
Octavia Frost is no stranger to life's twists of fate. She has mourned a husband and a daughter. She has watched her son become a rock star, following his progress through gossip magazines: they have not spoken in four years. And in her own, less spectacular way, she...
'Prepare to be seriously charmed.' The Times'A treat of a book.' Guardian'Utterly charming and very funny' - Paul Torday, author of Salmon Fishing in the YemenA charming novel about an irrepressible man, his long-suffering wife and a Very English dream.Jack Rosenblum...
This isn't an ordinary love story. But then Grace isn't an ordinary girl. 'Disgusting,' said the nurse. And when no more could be done, they put her away, aged eleven. On her first day at the Briar Mental Institute, Grace meets Daniel. He sees a different Grace: someone...
The Sunday Times Number One Bestseller, from the author of CLOUD ATLAS and THE BONE CLOCKS.Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2010'Brilliant' -The Times'A masterpiece' - ScotsmanBe transported to a place like no other: a tiny, man-made island in the bay of Nagasaki,...
*Winner of the Orange Award for New Writers*'Entertaining, ambitious and packed with news from elsewhere, leavened by the precious optimism of youth. Don't miss it.' IndependentA powerful love story set in post-independence Zimbabwe as it slides towards chaos.'Two days...
A petty thief is bested by a widow and her card-playing friends; a farmer must cope with raising his baby granddaughter; a train engineer inadvertently causes a major disaster and finds himself amidst a media frenzy; a young man falls in love with a voice on the radio;...
Once upon a time there was a boy whose home was a van and whose world was his father. Be warned: this is not a fairytale. Although it does contain love, betrayal, escape, and most important of all, a kiss. But you have to be ready for an unpredictable journey through a...
Winner of the 2010 Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award for a distinguished first book of fiction, A Long Long Time Ago and Essentially True is a grand love story and a wonderfully warm-hearted debut about a young woman and her country on the cusp of change.On the eve of...
'A consummate performance...virtuoso' GuardianA fascinating, unusual and seductive historical novel by the bestselling author of The Long Firm.In a Parisian restaurant, Aleister Crowley, the notorious occultist, chances on Major-General Sir Hector Macdonald: once one of...
What would you do if, out of the blue, your husband disappeared and you found out he was a suspected criminal?When reliable, respectable Felix Kendall vanishes, his wife Kate is left reeling. As she and their children cope with the shocking impact on their comfortable...
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