A dystopian but not unhopeful rollercoaster about civilisation and where the human race is headed. By the best-selling author whose debut The Power won the Women's Prize a few years ago.
This excellent author has set his new novel in Roman Britain: a tribal princess given away as part of a peace treaty flees through Wales with her Roman lover.
As six astronauts orbit the earth in a space station, collecting scientific data, their attention is tugged t by distant human events and relationships. Beautifully written, this is an affec... read more
A gloriously comic short novel from 1975, in which a journalist saves a hare and walks away from a wearisome life into a series of adventures with the hare as companion. Like our protagonist... read more