Claire Reynier is thrilled when her old friend Burke Lovell donates his collection of valuable books to the university where she works as a librarian. But the morning after she arrives at his ranch in the remote region known...

‘I guess the end justifies the means. At least that’s what I believe. Most of the time’. After the accident, DC Cameron Stone had spent three months in intensive care before he could even recall what happened: the high...

Japanese-occupied Malaya, 1945. Cecily Alcantara’s children are in terrible danger. Her eldest child Jujube, who works at a tea house frequented by drunk Japanese soldiers, becomes angrier by the day. Jasmin, the youngest, lives confined in a basement for...

I wonder today how no one else could see the bad thing coming. Not that I knew back then what the bad thing was: and if I had – if I’d known one of us was going to die...

A literary debut of stark and striking brilliance – a coming-of-age story, set in the remote wilderness of northern Wisconsin. Born mute and able to communicate only by sign, the brilliant Edgar Sawtelle leads an idyllic life with his...

A sweeping saga of modern India, The Story of My Assassins is gripping from its first sentence: The morning I learnt I d been shot I was sitting in my office on the second floor looking out the big...

This book traces family history of the Trapp Family Singers, starting with Maria’s days in the convent, and follows the migrations of the family during the War Years, and finishes in their family home in Vermont. The film, The...

Following the murder of a prostitute in London’s East End Detective Chief Inspector Mike Gregory of New Scotland Yard is deputed to investigate what seems to be the emergence of a crazed killer bent on emulating the crimes of...

In 1882, David Wildeblood, a 21-year-old from rural Norfolk, arrives in London to start work at the offices of a famous man. As an ‘inspector’ for Henry Marchmont’s hugely successful weekly The Labouring Classes of London, his job is...

Edinburgh, 1888. A violinist is murdered in his home. The dead virtuoso’s maid swears she heard three musicians playing in the night. But with only one body in the locked practice room – and no way in or out...