A man gets up earlier and earlier each day, dresses in the dark, makes his coffee and lights the fire with a box of matches. Then he rummages through the thoughts that crowd his head and preoccupy him. Here...

New York in the Roaring Twenties – a time for love, secrets and scandal… As the freedom of the Jazz Age transforms New York City, the iridescent Mrs Theresa Marshall of Fifth Avenue – a beautiful socialite of a...

Provence is a land of long cafe lunches, of lavender, olives, wine, medieval villages and ruined castles. Its history is steeped with myth and legend and peopled with painters, poets and knights. The beauty of its land has been...

When Olivia’s beloved Aunt Grace passes, she leaves everything to her niece, with one condition: Travel to Prague and deliver a message to Grace’s long-lost true love, Marek. The trouble is, Olivia’s world is getting smaller. Since her husband...

Never published during his lifetime, John Kennedy Toole’s masterful comic novel takes its title, as well asfrom Jonathan Swift A monument to sloth, rant and contempt, a behemoth of fat, flatulence and furious suspicion of anything modern – this...

The story of eight people (and a nation) navigating two brutal wars, it’s a novel of loyalty and sacrifice and enduring love.

Running out on your wedding day never goes down well. When the pressure of her forthcoming marriage becomes too much, Jude bolts from the church, leaving a good man at the altar, her mother in a fury, and the...

This novel set in Helford, Cornwall is full of romance and intrigue. There’s an old Cornish saying: ‘Save a stranger from the sea, he’ll turn your enemy…’ When her reclusive grandmother becomes too frail to live alone, Gabriella Blythe...

Now she’s been invited to spend the summer in the shady lanes and sandy coves of Cornwall. It should be blissful. There’s just one small snag: she’ll be staying with her former mother-in-law, Belinda. And Flora discovers she’s not...

It’s the first day of Ramadan in heat-soaked Bangalore. A young man begins to dress: makeup, a sari and expensive pearl earrings. He is transformed into Bhuvana. She is a hijra, a transgender seeking love in the bazaars of...