Jack Harper isn’t a bad man, but he’s stuck in a loveless marriage with a mediocre job just trying to keep sober. The only good thing in his life is his son. When an old college friend introduces him...

Ever dreamt of escape? That’s what Paradise promises: an ultra-exclusive hotel on the Caribbean island of St Barts. There, a retired actor from Hollywood’s golden age has brought together a glittering selection of guests. But why are they there…and...

Novel set in South Africa and demonstrates through the lives of ordinary people the inhuman quality of South African apartheid. Racial segregation is odious in concept, impossible in application. To prove it, Paton tells us the story of Pieter,...

Over the past several years, “the American in Tuscany,” has become a literary sub genre. Launched by the phenomenal success of Frances Mayes’s Under the Tuscan Sun, bookstores now burgeon with nimble, witty accounts of this clash in cultures...

There is so much to look forward to in the months ahead – to lengthening evenings, bike rides past fields of sunflowers or wild meadows of bluebells and poppies (just like the seventies Flake ad) and several months of...

A housewife running from years of domestic abuse. A bodyguard hired to escort a smuggled rhinoceros. A group of Islamic terrorists based in a quiet residential street. A secret government agency threatened with amalgamation within a bigger department. A...

The protagonists of the story Jess van Sandt, Killian Kinross and their family and friends are all fictitious. But the story is based around the Swedish East India Company’s first journey to China in 1732

A memoir of a lifetime’s travel to some of the darkest places on earth: a first work of non-fiction from this much-admired and award-winning crime writer ‘I have come to thank dark places for the light they bring to...

1919. Emily Ehrlich watches as two young airmen, Alcock and Brown, emerge from the carnage of the First World War to pilot the very first non-stop transatlantic flight from Newfoundland to the west of Ireland. Among the letters being...

In 1940, eighteen-year old Juliet Armstrong is reluctantly recruited into the world of espionage. Sent to an obscure department of MI5 tasked with monitoring the comings and goings of British Fascist sympathisers, she discovers the work to be by...