Jennie Walsh has done her best to ignore her husband’s criminal activities. But when he murders two men, she can no longer turn a blind eye. She’s on holiday in Venice when a gangland war erupts back home –...

Suzanne Vale, formerly acclaimed actress, is in rehab, feeling like ‘something on the bottom of someone’s shoe, and not even someone interesting’. Immersed in the sometimes harrowing, often hilarious goings-on of the drug hospital and wondering how she’ll cope...

These six stories are all inspired by Tokyo, a magical place that writer Wendy Nelson Tokunaga has observed both first-hand and from afar. A Tokyo teenager obsessed with becoming an idol singer despite her mother’s trepidations. An American bar...

The headmistress of High Fell Hall, an expensive boarding school for girls near Richmond, asks Dr Mills Sanderson to help two pupils with their studies over the summer. Her duties have hardly begun when one of the girls, Cecile...

A moving story of a Maori community’s fight for survival, from one of New Zealand’s most prominent and celebrated authors On the remote coast of New Zealand, at the curve that binds the land and the sea, a small...

Tragedy and triumph unfurl when a devout Mormon family hires a head-strong young widow during trying economic times. Two families — one Texan, one Mormon — develop an embattled but gripping relationship in the Arizona desert, while WWI rages...

As children, sisters Gillian and Sally were forever outsiders in their small New England town, teased, taunted and shunned for the air of magic that seems to sparkle in the air around them. All Gillian and Sally ever wanted...

Part of the epic series featuring Bernie Gunther. Summer of 194a in Berlin, Gunther is in persuit of killer. He meets a girl, who needs rescuing from a seeming rape-attack and they subsequently begin a relationship. He is relocated...

This book of over 200 photographs by Bernis and Peter von zur Muehlen covers the sweep of Prague’s history from World War II to the “Velvet Revolution.” The first chapter, illustrated by his mother’s black and white snapshots of...

It’s the summer of 1968, the year of love and hate, of Prague Spring and Cold War winter. Two English students, Ellie and James, set off to hitch-hike across Europe with no particular aim in mind but a continent,...