A perfect wife tests her perfect husband for the perfection of his love... A French bestseller of unnerving and claustrophobic domestic unease in the manner of Highsmith.
Following High Minds, The Age of Decadence and Staring at God, this is the fourth in his series on the changing face of Britain. It covers the period 1919-1939.
The author of Fates and Furies turns her hand to historical fiction with a vivid recreation of the life of the C12th French poet Marie de France. LG follows Marie's journey through Eleanor o... read more
A prelapsarian tale about a haven of racially integrated citizens, based on a real island off the coast of Maine which became - for a while - an exotic utopia in the late C18th.
Ellison is reputed to be little short of a genius - for forty years a carpenter, cabinet-maker, industrial designer, sculptor, welder; and capable of realising the three-dimensional processe... read more
The 30th outing for the tireless Brunetti: joy-riders in the Venetian lagoon are linked to more sinister doings... as usual, the glittering surface masks murky depths