| Author: | Dan Brown |
Dan Brown's new novel, Inferno, features renowned Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon and is set in the heart of Europe, where Langdon is drawn into a harrowing world centred around one of history's most enduring and mysterious literary masterpieces. As Dan Brown comments: "Although I studied Dante's Inferno as a student, it w... read more
| Author: | Lionel Shriver |
When Pandora picks up her older brother Edison at her local Iowa airport, she literally doesn't recognize him. In the four years since the grown siblings last saw one another, the once slim, hip New York jazz pianist has gained hundreds of pounds. What happened? Worse, Edison's slovenly habits, appalling diet, and know-it-all... read more
| Author: | Mikhail Shishkin |
Picture two people, young and in love. Picture them being separated from one another. Picture them keeping their love alive through letters. So far, so simple. Now imagine they've not just been separated geographically, but also historically. Imagine that their love and letters now defy time and place, life and death. By no... read more
| Author: | Gail Godwin |
Ten-year-old Helen and her summer guardian, Flora, are isolated together in Helen's decaying family house while her father is doing secret war work in Oak Ridge during the final months of World War II.At three Helen lost her mother and the beloved grandmother who raised her has just died. A fiercely imaginative child, Helen i... read more
| Author: | Abigail Tarttelin |
Max Walker is the golden boy He's the perfect son, the perfect friend and the perfect crush for the girls at his school He's attractive, he's intelligent, he's athletic He's even nice to his little brother Max is going to pass his exams with flying colours He's going to make his parents proud Max Walker has a terrible secret ... read more
| Author: | Robert Goolrick |
It is the summer of 1948 when a handsome, charismatic stranger, Charlie Beale, back from war in Europe, shows up in the sleepy town of Brownsburg, Virginia. All he has with him are two suitcases: one contains a fine set of butcher knives; the other is full of money. Charlie should have turned around and walked back the other ... read more
| Author: | Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche |
From the award-winning author of Half of a Yellow Sun, a powerful new novel-her first in seven years: a story of love and race centred around a young man and woman from Nigeria who face difficult choices and challenges in the countries they come to call home. As teenagers in a Lagos secondary school, Ifemelu and Obinze fall i... read more
Forthcoming, April 2013
| Author: | Kim Kelly |
It's November 1939, another war in Europe. And Bernie Cooper is wondering what's ahead for her. She knows Gordon Brock is going to ask her to marry him - any second now. An honest country boy about to graduate from university as a geologist, he's a good catch by anyone's standards, too. And she's going to say no. The harsh re... read more
| Author: | Richard Beasley |
Adelaide, 1977. The year Elvis died. And the year twelve-year-old Jake Taylor meets Rory Macbeath. Until then, Jake's world was small, revolving around his street, his school, and the courthouse where his mum, Harry, was a barrister. His best friend lives only a few houses away. For them daylight is for spinning a cricket bal... read more
| Author: | Lavanya Sankaran |
Bangalore: where innocence, deceit and love collide Anand is a Bangalore success story: successful, well-married, rich. At least, that's how he appears. But if his little factory is to grow, he needs land and money and, in the New India, neither of these is easy to find. Kamala, Anand's family's maid, lives perilously close t... read more
| Author: | Vikas Swarup |
Life pivots on a few key moments. This is one of them. Sapna Sinha works in an electronics store in downtown Delhi. She hates her job, but she is ambitious and determined to succeed, and she knows without the money she brings in, her family won't be able to survive. Little does she know it but her life is about to change fore... read more
Forthcoming, May 2013
| Author: | Cheng, Bill |
In the tradition of Cormac McCarthy and Flannery O'Connor, Bill Cheng leads the new generation of American greats. As the Great Flood of 1927 bursts the levees of Mississippi and sweeps away rural homes, 8-year-old Robert Chatham is separated from his parents and his friends, Dora and GD. He is entirely alone. Robert's advent... read more
| Author: | Cory Taylor |
'I was blinded by his beauty. In the one or two photographs I've kept of him I can still see it. He stares out of them almost miserably, as if his loveliness is an affliction. Not that I saw it that way, at least not in the beginning. In the beginning I thought it was a kind of miracle.' Arthur Wheeler is haunted by his infat... read more
| Author: | Michael Frayn |
A story of mislaid indentity, misdirected passion and miscalculated consequences, from the master of farce.
On the sunlit Greek island of Skios, the Fred Toppler Foundation's annual lecture is to be given by Dr Norman Wilfred, the world-famous authority on the scientific organisation of science. He turns out to be surpr... read more
Skios by Michael Frayn is a farce. The Fred Toppler Foundation is preparing for it's big event of the year - a lecture, this year by the acclaimed Dr Norman Wilfred. On the other side of the island of Skio, Georgie awaits the arrival of a womanising man she met for 5 minutes in a pub in London and agreed to go on ... read more
| Author: | Jim Crace |
Jim Crace's biggest novel since Being Dead draws once more on his genius with landscape and myth, to create a lost and bewitching English world. As late summer steals in and the final pearls of barley are gleaned, a village comes under threat. A trio of outsiders - two men and a dangerously magnetic woman - arrives on th... read more
The first Crace novel I have read, and sadly (he says) his last. Harvest chronicles the historic medieval transition of subsistence rural settlements in England into fenced, profitable wool-producing ones. The novel’s 'village' (58 inhabitants) allows a scant living for these simple and superstitious local peasants. Uph... read more
| Author: | Adam Johnson |
"You know you are in the hands of someone who can tell a story ...fantastic". (Zadie Smith). Pak Jun Do knows he is special. He knows he must be the son of the master of the orphanage, not some kid dumped by his parents - it was obvious from the way his father singled him out for beatings. He knows he is special when he is pi... read more
| Author: | Ann Weisgarber |
This is the extraordinary, devastating new novel from the author of double-Orange-Prize nominated The Personal History of Rachel DuPree.
1900. Young pianist Catherine Wainwright flees the fashionable town of Dayton, Ohio in the wake of a terrible scandal. Heartbroken and facing destitution, she finds herself striking u... read more
| Author: | Jane Gardam |
| Series: | Old Filth #3 |
Old Filth and The Man in the Wooden Hat told with bristling tenderness and black humour the stories of that Titan of the Hong Kong law courts, Old Filth QC, and his clever, misunderstood wife Betty. Last Friends, the final volume of this trilogy, picks up with Terence Veneering, Filth's great rival in work and - though it was... read more
| Author: | Patrick Ness |
One night, George Duncan - decent man, a good man - is woken by a noise in his garden. Impossibly, a great white crane has tumbled to earth, shot through its wing by an arrow. Unexpectedly moved, George helps the bird, and from the moment he watches it fly off, his life is transformed. The next day, a kind but enigmatic woman... read more
I have been a fan of Patrick Ness since I read his YA trilogy (the Chaos Walking series). His latest book for adults, The Crane Wife, is beautiful. The writing, premise and characters are all pitch-perfect. A delightful mix of reality and mythology, this is a novel which will stay with you long after you close the covers. (Pa... read more