Isabel Allende’s powerful tale of one boy’s escape from the slums of Los Angeles. This magnificent novel tells the story of Gregory Reeves, the son of Charles, an itinerant preacher. As a boy, Gregory accepts the endless journeying and...

When social media megastar Skye partners with Nathan’s charity, the funds pour in. And Nathan’s daughters, massive fans of the star, are thrilled. But he worries about Skye’s influence on them. While his personal life disintegrates, Nathan begins to...

Vanessa Munroe deals in information – covert information. With an extraordinary intellect, a physique that allows her to pass as either male or female, and ruthless martial arts skills, she offers a unique service to anyone – government or...

When Gabriel Santoro publishes his first book, a biography of a Jewish family friend who fled Germany for Colombia shortly before World War Two, it never occurs to him that his father will write a devastating review in a...

Ben Martin is charming and successful: an academic who has raised money for children’s charities and worked with women’s agencies in sub- Saharan Africa, a devoted husband. But when his brother Francois, an artist based in Lisbon, finds out...

On a private island off the west coast of Scotland, the Agarwals gather for a much-awaited family reunion… Raj, the patriarch and business tycoon, who has six weeks to decide how to split his petrochemicals empire between his three...

How close were Victor Hugo and his copyist? 1862 Young widow Eugénie is left bereft when her husband dies suddenly and faces an uncertain future in Guernsey. A further tragedy brings her to the attention of Monsieur Victor Hugo,...

The Inheritance of Loss is Kiran Desai’s extraordinary Man Booker Prize winning novel. High in the Himalayas sits a dilapidated mansion, home to three people, each dreaming of another time. The judge, broken by a world too messy for...

“Earns its place on the very short shelf of books on Japan that are of permanent value.”-Times Literary Supplement. “Richie is a stupendous travel writer; the book shines with bright witticisms, deft characterizations of fisherfolk, merchants, monks and wistful...

A fierce and beautiful novel about coming of age in a dying world. In the early nineteenth century, British explorer John Oxley traversed the unknown wilderness of central Australia in search of water – ‘the inland sea’. He never...