One beautiful dress is the key to three brave women’s destinies… France 1919: Jessie is celebrating the last heady days of her honeymoon. But when her husband suddenly disappears she finds herself bereft. Until a chance encounter thrusts her...

In a South Africa torn by civil war, Michael K sets out to take his mother back to her rural home. On the way there she dies, leaving him alone in an anarchic world of brutal roving armies. Imprisoned,...

This fast paced novel, set in the modern Scottish Highlands, is a thriller with faintly ghostly echoes. Recently retired from the Special Boat Service, James Gray is involved in seismic exploration of the sea bed. His training, experience and...

Fado consists of thirteen individual stories that culminate in the extended novella-like story, Whitethorn . Each story takes us into the lived experience and psychological dilemmas of its characters, dissolving certitude in favour of richly ambivalent and suggestive endings...

Lilian Una Stringer is the narrator, privileged parents in early twentieth century Australia. she fails to live up to her father’s expectations, eventually garnering his abuse and anger. Her mother meanwhile wiles away her hours with a stopwatch, timing...

She took 1930s New York by storm, working her way up writing copy for Macy’s department store to become the highest paid advertising woman in the world. Now it s the last night of 1984 and Lillian, 85 years...

Carlos Bluhm leads the good life in upper-class Lima: he attends social functions with his elegant wife, goes out drinking with his three best friends, has the occasional, fleeting assignation. . . . Until he meets Maria Fernandez, a...

A book and film convention in Nottingham. An American writer of a lesbian series is attacked by feminists and receives threats: prostitutes are under attack….

Letitia Landon, “Letty” to her friends, is an intelligent, witty, successful writer, much sought after for dinner parties and soirées in the London of the 1830s. But, still single at thirty-six, she fears ending up as a wizened crone...

From bestselling author Nick Spalding comes a hilarious, uplifting story about one man’s attempt to live a tech free life. Andy Bellows is in a right state. Plagued with insomnia, anxiety and neckache, he’s convinced there’s something seriously wrong...