Cambridge, 1912: a twilight bicycle crash entwines Fred, a young Fellow in the all-male college of St Angelicus, with Daisy, harpooned by a good heart and a poor background. Reason collide... read more
A brilliant historical novel whose subtitle 'A Romance' is deliciously deceptive. Sontag follows Sir William Hamilton (rechristened as 'The Cavalier' for the entire book), whose expat exploi... read more
A wonderful novel about a group of active, idealistic teenagers. Thirty years later, all have lost their zeal for reform and become famous except for Spike, who remains true to his earlier s... read more
Beautifully written and sensitive to his subject, this is a moving novel about Lampedusa, his remarkable wife Alexandra von Wolff-Stomersee, and the writing of 'The Leopard'.
Like the new novel by the other twice-Booker-winner on this list, this is the third in a trilogy... following Wolf Hall and Bring Up The Bodies, both of which are also reissued in hardback a... read more
A brilliant tale of lexicographers whose lives are influenced in surprising ways by mountweazels. (Mountweazel, noun: a fake entry deliberately inserted into a dictionary or work of referenc... read more
One in a second trio of reprints of the adored Eva Ibbotson. A young dancer escapes a stifling existance in Cambridge to join a corps de ballet en route to the Manaus Opera House, on the ba... read more
One in a second trio of reprints of the adored Eva Ibbotson. A struggling opera company is hired for a single performance at an Austrian castle, but their under wardrobe mistress has somethi... read more
A sensitive novel about Elizabeth MacArthur, who managed to flourish at the end of the world (Australia in the 1790s) despite being married to an exceptionally obnoxious man.
The indefatigable author of 'Schindler's Ark' picks up here on the story of Dickens's youngest son, who emigrated to Australia to become a sheep farmer.
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.
Every Christmas needs an escapist book and this year we think this fits the bill - a novel about the three daughters of the first Earl of Iveagh. There is of course the old chestnut that Pr... read more
A powerful novel set in colonial East Africa during the early C20th, as individuals try to live their lives among gathering conflicts, both local and global.