The narrator, an undercover agent in her mid-thirties, has been sent to spy on a group of eco-activists in France. A wry, sleuthing novel by the author of The Mars Room.
A lesbian couple - one of whom is an egotistical, bullying narcissist - decide to have children. The novel turns on what happens when the decent one finally determines to leave, taking at le... read more
This powerful story is set in 1851 in the Arctic: a Lutheran minister's Sami convert has a son who inconveniently has a love affair with the minister's daughter.
A handful of stories about five women whose recent experiences of difficult or painful events are leavened by life-enhancing - even life-altering - moments.
A letter and a beautiful woman sweep a young hothead from Whitechapel to Constantinople on the eve of the Crimean War; there is a trail of bodies, but so far not his... A lively debut.
A prequel to his bestselling The Partisan, set at the start of the Cold War, when Agent Greta has to find the daughter of a partisan general in the postwar chaos.
This highly praised posthumous debut concerns the body of a black boy found in the Thames - a fate unnervingly similar to the author's own tragic death last spring.
The definitive edition of Eliot's published prose, in order. In four volumes. Professor Burnett has previously produced editions of A.E. Housman's letters and poems and the poetry of Larkin.
Memoir and reportage by the outstanding foreign correspondent (who has covered conflict in Ukraine, Mali, Syria, Kosovo, Bosnia, Rwanda, Israel/Palestine), and an anthology of poems that spe... read more