Karl Braun is German, cultivated and self-effacing; he tunes pianos for a living. When he moves into a boarding house in Pimlico, everyone assumes that he has fled Nazi Germany, when in fact... read more
The mayor of Barcelona is being blackmailed with a sex tape from her student days and there are several interested parties who would gladly see her resignation. The first in a new series by ... read more
The author of H is for Hawk has written - with a co-writer - a sci-fi thriller in which an all-American diner appears overnight in a remote British field...
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.
Two translators - a Russian girl and an Englishman - train for the Moscow marathon together so that they can talk - and then save the world, or at least some of it.