Set in rural 1950s Germany, the narrator of the book returns to an isolated rural community where a whole family and their maid have been murdered and the rest of the community has turned a blind eye.

Originally published as Death in Dulwich. Meet Beth Haldane: a historian with a taste for gardening, snug coffee shops… and solving mysteries? It’s a crisp spring day in Dulwich Village when Beth arrives at Wyatt’s School for her new...

New York City, 1911. Meet Coralie Sardie, circus girl, web-fingered mermaid, shy only daughter of Professor Sardie and raised in the bizarre surroundings of his Museum of Extraordinary Things. And meet Eddie Cohen, a handsome young immigrant who has...

Kemal spends much of his life in love with Fusun, who is a beautiful shop girl and also distant relative. In an attempt to record and preserve their relationship with her, he starts to collect and hoard objects which...

Chabon’s “coming of age” novel tackles bi-sexuality in a brave and subtle way. It is the Summer of discovery for three friends, Art, Arthur and Phlox, beautifully observed and written.

`Her present life appeared like the dream of a distempered imagination, or like one of those frightful fictions, in which the wild genius of the poets sometimes delighted. Rreflections brought only regret, and anticipation terror.’ Such is the state...

1940. At Yew Tree House, recently widowed Adelaide Stride is raising her two daughters alone – but it’s not just the threat of German invasion that keeps her up at night. She is surrounded by enemies posing as allies...

Osborne travels from Dubai, to Calcutta, on to the Andamans, Bangkok, Bali and finally Papua New Guineau. An opinionated and insightful view of these wonderful places with a bit of history thrown in.

A sharp and funny debut about a wonderfully dysfunctional New York family and the three grown-up siblings fighting to save the family money pot – the ‘nest’ – as their oldest brother threatens to lose it all. When Leo...

At the start of it all, Jonathan Pine is merely the night manager at a luxury hotel. But when a single attempt to pass on information to the British authorities – about an international businessman at the hotel with...