Books

A.J. Cronin, author of some of the best-loved novels of the mid-twentieth century and the creator of Dr Finlay , has been unjustly overlooked by literary biographers. In this, the first full-length life of this eminent but often neglected writer,...
By: Alan Davies

Where can you find truth in a world that is so thoroughly ruled by lies? That is the question tackled by the investigation of a French journalist who endeavours to shed light on the enigma of an unexplained death: that of the Argentinian writer...
By: Alberto Manguel

The Leopard , published posthumously in 1958, was one of the most important works of fiction to appear in the Italian language in the twentieth century. Between 1925 and 1930, its author, Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, wrote a number of letters to...
By: Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

Notorious as a novelist, Michel Houellebecq was first known in France as a poet. In many ways it is through poetry that he found his novelist’s voice. The Art of Struggle is a collection of prose and verse pieces which investigate issues of...
By: Michel Houellebecq

Soon after moving to the secluded Norfolk village of Munding, Alex Darken has a disturbing encounter with the ageing poet Edward Nesbit and his young lover Laura. They are obsessively researching the lives of Sir Henry Agnew and his daughter Louisa...
By: Lindsay Clarke

As war-reporter Martin Crowther arrives in Umbria, still raw from a recent assignment in Africa, and from a failing love affair back home, a storm hits and the sky opens. Things are powerfully on the move inside him too as he comes to the small...
By: Lindsay Clarke

Limited first edition, hardback, 150 copies printed and signed by the author, only 8 remaining for sale. As war-reporter Martin Crowther arrives in Umbria, still raw from a recent assignment in Africa, and from a failing love affair back home, a...
By: Lindsay Clarke

The Hundred-foot Journey is the story of Hassan Haji, a boy from Mumbai who embarks, along with his boisterous family, on a picaresque journey first to London and then across Europe, before they ultimately open a restaurant opposite a famous chef,...
By: Richard C. Morais

Czechoslovakia, 1942. Jan’s father has been summarily executed by the Nazis. His mother and his older sister Maria have disappeared, and his younger sister Lena has been removed to a remote farm in the German countryside. With Europe in the throes...
By: Maureen Myant