Books

Set in 1936 in Belgium and Ceylon, Smoke Portrait traces the development of an unlikely friendship between a young Belgian teenager, Marten Kuypers, and Glen Phayre, an Englishwoman in her twenties. Glen has left England to live on her aunt’s tea...
By: Trilby Kent

Set in 1936 in Belgium and Ceylon, Smoke Portrait traces the development of an unlikely friendship between a young Belgian teenager, Marten Kuypers, and Glen Phayre, an Englishwoman in her twenties. Glen has left England to live on her aunt’s tea...
By: Trilby Kent

Winner of the TD Canadian Children's Literature Award 2012 Winner of the Africana Children's Book of the Year Award 2012 Corlie Roux’s farm life in South Africa is not easy: the Transvaal is beautiful, but it is also a harsh place where the heat can...
By: Trilby Kent

Austin Palmer and his wife Kay had come, full of dreams and aspirations, to a school deep in the rain-forest of a newly independent West African state. But things had not worked out as they had hoped. When Kay returns to England, Palmer moves away...
By: Lindsay Clarke

Presented as a collection of articles about apocryphal artworks, exhibitions, books and other cultural phenomena, Sunsets and Dogshits follows the convention of a “collected writings” book. Most pieces adopt a wellrecognized format – for example a...
By: Sean Ashton

A haunting story about saying goodbye – showing that even freedom may have its cost after all Leaving comes naturally to Eva Elliott: she spent her childhood abandoning schools and cities. Now she enjoys the thrill of saying goodbye much more than...
By: Anna Stothard

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

After the death of his wife, Peter Byerly, a young antiquarian bookseller, relocates from the States to the English countryside, where he hopes to rediscover the joys of life through his passion for collecting and restoring rare books. But when he...
By: Charlie Lovett

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