Lars Iyer returns with his most accessible novel yet: Wittgenstein Jr. is the nickname Peters and his gang of fellow Philosophy undergrads give to their lecturer; a brooding, complicated, melancholic academic who is determined to make them grasp the...

Zoe has split up with her boyfriend. Now, all she wants is to be safe, caring for small children in a Paris school. But a violent incident rocks her world, after which a colleague invites her to an idyllic...

Looking for a better life, prostitute Nora Simms arrives in Gold Rush San Francisco with a plan for success: to strike it rich by trading on her good looks. But when a string of murders claims several of her...

In “Women of the Silk” Gail Tsukiyama takes her readers back to rural China in 1926, where a group of women forge a sisterhood amidst the reeling machines that reverberate and clamor in a vast silk factory from dawn...

In a pre-apocalyptic near future, against a backdrop of a faltering global civilization and a living planet in slow-motion death throes, a young, free-spirited couple, Joss and Tina, decide to quit the programme and go on a voyage of...

Richard and Sarah meet in London, fall in love and, after some complications, marry. To escape the rat-race – and their ex-partners – they decide to move to the countryside, and buy a cottage in the pretty Suffolk village...

A Christmas fling, or has Janie found the real thing? Thirty-something hairdresser Janie Johnson’s single status is a constant source of gossip for her friends and clients. So after too many nights in with her cat, a blind date...

Jerusalem 1967: Everyone is reeling from the aftermath of the 6-Day War. The Palestinians are stunned and cannot comprehend their losses, whilst the Israelis are waking up to a new political reality – and their new responsibilities. Surprisingly for...

Moore sets off to travel to the worst places in Britain, in one of the worst cars we have produced (the R Reg. Maestro called Craig), listening to the worst music, staying and eating in the worst places….such is...

The last words Jamie Ball hears from his fiancée, Logan Somerville, are in a terrified mobile phone call. She has just driven into the underground car park beneath the block of flats where they live in Brighton. Then she...