Dynamic historical thriller set in Japan-occupied China, by the author of 'Decoded', another masterpiece by that Chinese literary sensation and former intelligence officer.
The thirteenth Alex Rider book - who, unlike Harry Potter, does not age, but remains in a Peter-Pan-like teen-age limbo, forever blowing up bridges and saving the world. Ages 8-12.
A fifteen-year-old girl has a love affair with her teacher - it was love, wasn't it? So the protagonist thinks, looking back, when allegations surface. A compelling investigation of consent ... read more
The 4th in his wonderful series, in which Oliver Cromwell's son, Richard, has slipped back into England from exile: the consequences could be catastrophic.
Exuberant, foul, clever novel in which 'Villalobos' is kidnapped by a thug who wants him to persuade the daughter of a corrupt politician to fall in love with him.
A modern Gothic triumph, that blends the lives of three women living, at different times, near the Firth of Forth in Scotland. Powerfully imagined, a deftly handled plot, and devastating.
Returning to Paris in 1947 after the war, he recorded his meetings with luminaries such as Cocteau and the dour Camus. He also noted his own mysterious practise of barking at night with the ... read more
One in a second trio of reprints of the adored Eva Ibbotson. A young dancer escapes a stifling existance in Cambridge to join a corps de ballet en route to the Manaus Opera House, on the ba... read more
One in a second trio of reprints of the adored Eva Ibbotson. A struggling opera company is hired for a single performance at an Austrian castle, but their under wardrobe mistress has somethi... read more
DON'T PANIC! And console yourself that as gloomy as things seem, at least the Earth hasn't been demolished to make way for a new hyperspace bypass. Self-isolation doesn't mean you can't trav... read more
The story of a young girl growing up just before WW2: the late Morrison's first novel, published in 1970, still outstanding in its fiftieth anniversary year. In telling the 'how', she makes... read more
A neurotic Italian businessman obsessed by his own hypochondria, Zeno Cosini recounts his early years to his psychoanalyst Dr S. With a cigarette clutched permanently between his fingers, he... read more
Dedicated to her friend Tirzah Garwood, this is a deliciously charming and funny mix of commonplace book and diary from the 1950s, illustrated with woodcuts not by Tirzah as intended (she ha... read more
Vintage Japanese crime fiction, by a master of the genre, first published in 1950: the head of a clan leaves a very peculiar will, and its reading is followed by a series of unusual murders.
Those who read 'Look Who's Back' will know that Vermes does white-knuckle satire. In this, he imagines a column of refugees walking to Europe in front of TV cameras.
The most popular of Szabo's books in her native Hungary, published for the first time in English. It forms a loose trilogy with 'The Door' and 'Katalin Street'.