Escape to the sun-drenched shores of Lake Como in the irresistible and gripping new novel from the million-copy bestselling author of Thursdays in the Park, The Anniversary and The Lie'Held me spellbound .
ONE OF THE MOST REMARKABLE BRITISH WRITERS OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY 'Lehmann legitimised a type of writing that took on deep personal themes' ENGLISH PEN'Full of her sensibility, her funniness, her own particular acumen' ELIZABETH JANE HOWARD'Not to worry: Shad and company will rescue Sarah before the worst happens' KIRKUS REVIEWS In 1933 we meet Rebecca, heroine of The Ballad and the Source - but in a different world, on many levels.
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2023 BOOKER PRIZE'Dazzling' GUARDIAN'Blistering' THE TIMES'A delight' DIANA EVANS'Fiction written at the highest level' ANN PATCHETT'Hilarious, revelatory' MARLON JAMESAn electrifying, hilarious and deeply moving tragicomic debut novel following a Jamaican family grappling with a new life in the US.
In this suspenseful story of the late nineteenth century, Joseph Cook upends his life after the murder of his closest friend by a man who escapes justice.
Since Susannah Cates's husband was sent to prison three years ago, life has been a constant struggle to provide for herself and their teenage daughter.
Helga Ruebsamen's extraordinary achievement in this, her first novel to be translated into English, is in finding a voice for a sensitive and highly imaginative child who must endure the painful transition from life in the paradise of the Dutch East Indies to the savage realities of wartime Holland.
A gripping novel of romance, suspense, and the supernatural, The Orphan of the Rhine follows young Julie de Rubine as she unravels the haunting secrets of her past.
From the million-copy bestselling author of Before We Were Yours comes an uplifting novel where unexpected challenges and new friendships reveal what 'home' really means.
When Simeon Simcox, a socialist clergyman, leaves his entire fortune not to his family but to the ruthless, social-climbing Tory MP Leslie Titmuss, the Rector's two sons react in very different ways.
'The reason Homer Wells kept his name was that he came back to St Cloud's so many times, after so many failed foster homes, that the orphanage was forced to acknowledge Homer's intention to make St Cloud's his home.
As resonant with social and political themes as Lessing's masterpiece 'The Golden Notebook', 'The Diaries of Jane Somers' sees the author returns to the realism of her early fiction with the wisdom and experience of maturity.
Die Auflösung seines Elternhauses ist für Adam Trnovský Anlass, sich an seine Kindheit, seine Eltern, sein Leben in der Slowakei zwischen den 1930er- und 1990er-Jahren zu erinnern.
This antiquarian volume contains the narrative of a year in the life of a content, normal but extremely imaginative boy growing up with his two siblings and his dog, Hamlet, in Colchester-by-the-sea, Cornwall.
Das humorvolle Meisterwerk einer KultautorinGrandios erzählt Shirley Jackson in diesem Klassiker von 1957 aus dem Leben ihrer liebenswert-durchgeknallten Familie.
The comforts and terrors of middle-class provincial life have seldom been more sharply dissected than by Stanley Middleton, and his new novel adds to this social insight a new poignancy.
Seven years after their divorce, Ilana breaks the bitter silence with a letter to Alex, a world-renowned authority on fanaticism, begging for help with their rebellious adolescent son, Boaz.
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERNAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BYTIME, PEOPLE, SALON, AND ESQUIREThe Family Fangis a comedy, a tragedy, and a tour-de-force examination of what it means to make art and survive your family.
Fans of Katie Flynn, Rosamunde Pilcher and Dinah Jeffries will love this emotional and sweeping wartime romance set in Singapore from bestselling author Margaret Mayhew.
Große Literatur über den Rollentausch zwischen Eltern und Kindern und die Frage, was ein gutes Leben ausmachtEine der aufregendsten Stimmen der deutschsprachigen Gegenwartsliteratur ist zurück: Tiere, vor denen man Angst haben muss erzählt vom Aufwachsen zweier Schwestern auf einem mecklenburgischen Hof in den Neunzigerjahren, wo sich die Grenzen zwischen den Generationen und zwischen Natur und Zivilisation immer mehr auflösen.
