This fine debut turns about Margot, the natural child of a prominent French politician: adolescence, with all its tender spots and short focus, resentful, impressionable, knowing-it-all but ... read more
A powerful novel about an idealistic couple who travel along motorways in a post-disaster era, with a child who questions their values as he grows older.
Global interests circle around the discoveries of an Iranian nuclear scientist at Oxford. A charming, divorced ex-journo is the man who unravels the mystery.
The French master of noir... Business is thin for raddled old Tarpon, Parisian private eye, when a beautiful women bursts into his office, her hands covered in blood. How could he - or we - ... read more
A selection of STW's huge output of short stories. These were written between 1940 and 1946 and give matchless glimpses of the market towns and villages of the South of England and the lives... read more
Written when LF was already living in exile in Paris, this novel describes the lives of three Jewish brothers and their family, well-to-do and civilised, between late 1932 and June 1933. Int... read more
A haunting and complex novel in which a British man discovers that his German grandfather fought on the Eastern Front, from a letter that he leaves on his death.