A single mother, assisted by her daughter, strangles her abusive ex-husband. Her next door neighbour, a mathematician helps to create a scenario to provide the two women with iron-clad alibis. A detective, with the support of his logically minded...

They call themselves The Dewsweepers every weekend morning throughout the season, they are the first group to tee off at the stately 100 year old Onandaga Club in upstate New York. Ranging in age from their late thirties to...

When Jill and her family moved to Italy she expected life to change but she had no idea how massive that change would be. Shortly after the move, she discovered her husband had been having an affair and had...

My child means everything to me. But saving his life means destroying my best friend’s family… I didn’t plan to fall pregnant, but when I found out, I was overjoyed. Even though I’d be going it alone, I swore...

Four people walked into the dining room that night. One would never leave. Matthew: the perfect husband. Titus: the perfect son. Charlie: the perfect illusion. Rachel: the perfect stranger. Charlie didn’t want her at the book club. Matthew wouldn’t...

When Manhattan writer Kristin Kimball arrived to interview Mark on a Pennsylvanian farm, she was wearing high heels and a crisp white shirt and had been vegetarian for thirteen years. That evening, she found herself helping him to slaughter...

Ten-year-old Jas has a unique way of experiencing her universe: the feeling of udder ointment on her skin as protection against harsh winters; the texture of green warts, like capers, on migrating toads; the sound of ‘blush words’ that...

LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2014 The new novel from Joseph O’Neill, his first since the Man Booker longlisted and PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction-winning ‘Netherland’. In 2007, a New York attorney bumps into an old college buddy –...

In 1972 a gold bullion convoy is hijacked in Marseilles. The security trucks and hijackers are swiftly rounded up, but a ton of gold has disappeared. More than twenty years later, Daniel Jacquot receives an unexpected gift from an...

The year is 2020. The Mexican President has provoked the United States by calling for the removal of US troops from Colombia and demanding higher prices for Mexico’s oil. But the country’s satellite communications system is controlled in Miami...