London 1792. The Kellaways move from familiar rural Dorset to the tumult of a cramped, unforgiving city.Against the backdrop of a city jittery over the increasingly bloody French Revolution, a...

Far in the future, the World Controllers have finally created the ideal society. In laboratories worldwide, genetic science has brought the human race to perfection. Man is bred and educated to be...

Henry Chester, a domineering and puritanical Victorian artist, is in search of the perfect model. In nine-year-old Effie he finds her.

Ten years later, lovely, childlike and sedated,...

When a bomb goes off at Heathrow it looks like just another random act of violence to psychologist David Markham. But then he discovers that his ex-wife Laura is among the victims. Acting on...

Here comes Jenny Bunn young, gorgeous, thoroughly virginal. And the cause of lust in every man she meets... But the age of sexual liberation has only just begun this is 1959 and Jenny is a nice...

A novel of the glittering decadence of Hollywood’s heyday, this was Fitzgerald’s last work and he died without completing it. The novel’s tragic tycoon hero is Stahr and, caught in the...

The hero of Hanif Kureishi’s debut novel is a dreamy teenager, desperate to escape suburban South London and experience the forbidden fruits which the 1970s seem to offer. When the unlikely...

The fourth volume in the acclaimed Tales of the City series. The characters that filled the pages of the three earlier Tales of the City books with love and laughter are at it again, as an...

After seven years of marriage, Lady Brenda Last is mildly bored with country life in the Victorian Gothic mansion that is the symbol of her husband’s family pride. The affair she drifts into...

A young woman returns to northern Quebec to the remote island of her childhood, with her lover and her two friends, to investigate the mysterious disappearance of her father. Flooded with...

In the sweet shop Willy Chapman was free, absolved from all responsibility, and he ran his sweet shop like his life – quietly, steadfastly, devotedly. It was a bargain struck between Chapman and...

The place is St Oswald’s, a long-established boys’ grammar school in the north of England. A new year has just begun, and for the staff and boys of the school a wind of unwelcome change is...

Tom is married with kids. After losing two jobs in as many years, he is now a full-time house husband. Sean, his twin brother, runs his own business, has reservations at the right restaurants and...

Clare Higgins, Alex Jennings and Steven Pacey read Man Booker Prize-winning author Julian Barnes' 'he said, she said' novel.Introducing Stuart, Gillian and Oliver. One by one they take their...

On millennium night, 31 December 1999, with Tony Blair presiding over a superficially cool, sexed-up new version of the country, Benjamin Trotter finds himself watching the celebrations on his...