The Mulberry Empire 1st January 1970
The novel begins in Kabul with the arrival of Burnes, an ambitious young Scot, eager to open up the country to the English. News of his arrival soon reaches the Amir, for whom “the arrival of the new European...
The novel begins in Kabul with the arrival of Burnes, an ambitious young Scot, eager to open up the country to the English. News of his arrival soon reaches the Amir, for whom “the arrival of the new European...
Charles Strickland, a conventional stockbroker, abandons his wife and children for Paris and Tahiti, to live his life as a painter. Whilst his betrayal of family, duty and honour gives him the freedom to achieve greatness, his decision leads...
Gina, married to Connor, is the narrator. Sean and his wife Aileen have a young daughter who suffers from epilepsy. All set against the backdrop of the Celtic Tiger hitting the wall. Gina and Sean have embarked on an...
The Second World War is long over but its legacy continues to tear a town – and a young boy’s life – apart.Knud is growing up in Falster, a small Danish town in the 1960s. The war is over...
First in the series. The stories are centred around the residents of a house in Edinburgh, and offer slices of life through the different characters who live there and whose lives overlap. (A note in the introduction that this...
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