Beautifully written and sensitive to his subject, this is a moving novel about Lampedusa, his remarkable wife Alexandra von Wolff-Stomersee, and the writing of 'The Leopard'.
A novel examining celebrity and a mother-daughter relationship affected by the mother's stage fame. AE - another former Booker winner - shifts between Hollywood and 1970s Dublin.
Both social satire and love story, this is the tale of a crumbling English aristocratic family clinging to the past while coping with fallout from the 2008 crash. HR's second novel; the firs... read more
A wonderful novel about a group of active, idealistic teenagers. Thirty years later, all have lost their zeal for reform and become famous except for Spike, who remains true to his earlier s... 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.