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...

Rennie Wilford, a young journalist running from her life, takes an assignment to a Caribbean island and tumbles into a world where no one is what they seem. When the burnt-out Yankee Paul (does he...

At the end of ‘A Star Called Henry', the first volume of ‘The Last Roundup' trilogy, we left Henry Smart on the run. He flees from Dublin to Liverpool and then to New York. And this is where...

Huckleberry Finn had a tough life with his drunken father until an adventure with Tom Sawyer changed everything. But when Huck’s dad returns and kidnaps him, he must escape down the Mississippi...

‘Any other writer would kill to reach this high style. Amis can stroll the heights at his leisure – the writing is on fire’ - Allison Pearson, Independent on Sunday.‘This is a book of...

John Self is addicted – to life.

Porn freak and jetsetter, aficionado of wealth and women, Self is the shameless heir to a fast-food culture where money beats out an insistent...

Jamal is a successful psychoanalyst haunted by his first love and a brutal act of violence from which he can never escape. His coming of age in the 1970s forms a vivid backdrop to the drama that...

Narcissus and Goldmund is the story of a passionate yet uneasy friendship between two men of opposite character. Narcissus, an ascetic instructor at a cloister school, has devoted himself solely...

Malcolm, Peter and Charlie and their Soave-sodden wives have one main ambition left in life: to drink Wales dry. But their routine is both shaken and stirred when they are joined by professional...

Carol married young - to philandering Phil - and became a mother young to highly-strung Jaz. Carol put up with Phil’s infidelities: suffer in silence and keep the family together was her...

Seeking refuge and anonymity in the cobbled streets of Montmartre, Yanne and her daughters, Rosette and Annie, live peacefully, if not happily, above their little chocolate shop. Nothing unusual...

Sarah is a narcoleptic who has dreams so vivid she mistakes them for real events; Robert has his life changed forever by the misunderstandings arising from her condition; Terry, the insomniac,...

It is 1942. London is blacked out, but France is under a greater darkness as the Vichy regime clings ever closer to the Nazi occupier in their danse macabre. From Edinburgh, Charlotte Gray, a...

Set on the dazzlingly beautiful French Riviera in the turbulent 1920s. Dick and Nicole Diver arrive in fashionable France – handsome, rich, glamorous and enormous fun. Their dinners are...

'The Master' tells the story of Henry James, an American-born genius of the modern novel who becomes a connoisseur of exile, living among artists and aristocrats in Paris, Rome, Venice and...