The lives of two children are thrown off kilter after WW1. Menaced by cynical aunts and orphanages, they run away to France to look for lost loved ones. Ages 8-11.
Absorbing first novel about a group of female friends turning forty - their marriages, children, relationships... Mary McCarthy reconfigured for MeToo?
NB Publication of thi... read more
This new novel from the author of The Neapolitan Quartet is also set in Naples, and was superbly reviewed in Italy.
NB Publication of this book has been delayed until 1st September. Pub... read more
Edvard Behrends is a senior diplomat, spending time in a hotel in the Tyrol while slowly pushing on with delicate negotiations. A long look at a certain kind of solitude, love and loss.
Four generations, from Ukrainian shtetls via the Holocaust to influence in Washington DC. The author is the mother of Jonathan S F, whose first novel 'Everything Is Illuminated' (2002) also ... read more
The contents of a shoebox in America led the author to discover her grandmmother's family, from Picasso in Paris, Dior and Chagall to a farmhouse in the Auvergne, Auschwitz and Long Island. ... read more