Barmy and murderous goings-on in an Italian villa in the company of a family of Todes. Will fill those interminable dark hours between lunch and tea. Posh, pleasing silliness.
A first historical novel, set in Willesden and Jamaica. Brilliant and funny, of course, not least for its opening in Harrison Ainsworth's collapsing library.
A mother and her daughter navigate their betrayal by a ruthlessly self-regarding poet. Enright is superb at unpicking complex relationships and laying out their strands: we watch, spellbound... read more
These spirits and their bizarre manifestations are not taken straight from the Japanese but rather from the English collections of the Meiji and Taisho eras, including those of Lafcadio Hear... read more
An accomplished thriller that connects an Iraqi former interpreter with a body on a beach and a vastly lucrative defence contract: Powers, author of the brilliant The Yellow Birds, is a vete... read more