Set in Sweden's far north in 1852, where a milkmaid is the first to go missing in the forest. It's presumed that a bear is the nocturnal bumper, but the preacher Laestadius deduces different... read more
A wickedly funny portrait of a group of liberal New Yorkers. Appalled by the political catastrophe of 2016, they think they are safe in their nice homes...
From Bath in 1865 to Dublin and Borneo: a novel about transgressive relationships and a woman's sense of her own destiny being other than what convention dictates.
Connecting with her sequence 'Gilead', 'Home' and 'Lila', this new novel concerns the family's errant son Jack, the intelligent, drunk, courteous, poetry-loving, foolish ne'er-do-well. Aspir... read more
Brighton, 1968: a film producer, a novelist and an actress find their private lives encroaching into their public worlds. Pressures build on the trio...
High jinks have a darker side in the summer of 1933: Diana Mitford is having an affair with Oswald Mosley, a high-society cruise is interrupted by a dead body, and Louisa Cannon, the Mitford... read more