Mary Jocelyn, who leads a quiet but happy life with her widowed father at Dedmayne Rectory, is thrown into emotional disarray by an unexpected love affair. First published in 1924, it was pi... read more
A finely-spun novel about a potter, of living, loving, fanaticism and creativity, allegory and myth. From a highly regarded and intelligent writer, also published by Christopher MacLehose.
The author of Fates and Furies turns her hand to historical fiction with a vivid recreation of the life of the C12th French poet Marie de France. LG follows Marie's journey through Eleanor o... read more
A furniture salesman, who tries to keep to the straight and narrow with only the occasional foray into fencing a pilfered gewgaw for a cousin, finds himself drawn into a much bigger heist. A... read more
A fictional portrait of the life of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry - pilot, aristocrat and author of Le Petit Prince. Iturbe's last novel, The Librarian of Auschwitz, was a huge success.
Two sisters buy a rambling house in the Welsh Marches. One decides to bring the neglected garden back to life with the help of an Albanian migrant living in the nearby village. The work allo... read more
A bravura upending of the clichés of the 'Great American Novel' from the author of Then We Came to the End. Set in early C21st America, Ferris's protagonist is a romantic in the style of Up... read more
A scientist's investigations into light and motion are used to develop ways of tracking workers' movements. The dizzying narrative encompasses an experimental sci-fi film, military drone tec... read more
The teenage protagonist hears voices from the inanimate objects around him. Seeking refuge in a library, he finds a book that helps him to narrate his own life.
A group of international mercenary pilots in Uganda in the mid-1990s fly weapons across Africa, selling them to the highest bidder. A young Congolese cowherd joins them and finds himself in ... read more
Having addressed Henry James in The Master, CT turns now to Thomas Mann: a tender portrayal of the contradictions of Mann's life - homosexual but father to six children; a staunch German pat... read more
A woman's past erupts in the present: a novel about courage and love from the great Israeli writer, author of See Under: Love and A Horse Walks Into a Bar among others.
GJ's first novel in over two decades is set in C17th colonial Brazil and its last fugitive-slave settlement. She burst onto the literary scene in 1975 with the publication of Corregidora, a... read more
Nature, bereavement, oddness, optimism, philosophy, love, ethics, climate change and extra-planetary experiences... Powers is an outstanding writer and there's nothing gimmicky about his pro... read more
A swirling historical epic, published in India, which follows a quest for the essence of Sufism and the heady fragrance of ishq-e haqeeqi - love for the divine. From Afghanistan to Granada, ... read more
A 600-page behemoth of a novel, Crossroads is a cross-generational saga set in 1970s suburban Chicago. The paterfamilias is a pastor wondering whether to leave his failing marriage before hi... read more