Bobby Jobe is an arrogant pro golfer who fights with his caddy, chokes down the stretch in the PGA championship, then gets blinded by a bolt of lightning while hitting practice balls in a thunderstorm after the tournament. Caddy...

The desire to leave stressful city life behind and move to a tropical island is, for most, just a dream. Gaia Grant decided to turn that dream into a reality. Packing up her family and travelling through Asia –...

In the bleak Milan suburb of Metanopoli, in the late 1960s, a dead woman is found along the side of the road. Duca Lamberti is a medical doctor who has just been released from prison, where he has spent...

Ellen grew up in a household where intellectual persuits were valued, but who craved to be a cook. She too a position at Hallendorf School a magical, mysterious place, unaware of the dangers and challenges ahead.

The catalyst is the arrest of a British agent, James Curwen (aka Jeez Carew), in Johannesburg. After Jeez is sentenced to hang, along with four young blacks, he is effectively abandoned by the politically wary English government. Service with...

While the ostensible topics are houses and people, it is Nichols’ love of gardening, and the villagers who either encourage him or thwart him in its pursuit, that remains the lively theme through all the books. — Valerie Easton...

When you’re as big and rough as Jack Reacher – and you have a badly-set, freshly-busted nose, patched with silver duct tape – it isn’t easy to hitch a ride. But Reacher has some unfinished business in Virginia, so...

At an inn in the Berkshire Mountains of western Massachusetts, seven former schoolmates gather for a wedding. Nora, the owner of the inn, has recently had to reinvent her life following the death of her husband. Avery, who still...

Several characters and their lives in one parallel week in December, in the lead up to Christmas, and how their paths cross. Essentially love is all around, in all its facets.

In previous novels, le Carré has delighted in taking us on a mystery tour. This time, the mystery is located in character more than plot. The absolute friends of the title are Ted Mundy and his East German friend,...