Virginia Woolf’s exuberant biography tells the story of the cross-dressing, sex-changing Orlando who begins life as a young noble in the sixteenth century and moves through numerous historical...

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,...

London Fields is a comic murder mystery, and a satire for the new age.

The murderee is Nicola Six, a ‘black hole’ of sex and self-loathing who is intent on orchestrating her own...

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...

Conceived and written on an epic scale, Gardens of the Moon is a breathtaking achievement - a novel in which grand design, a dark and complex mythology, wild and wayward magic and a host of...

A community divided by greed, cowardice and fear. A man persecuted by the ghosts of his painful past. A young woman searching for happiness. In one eventful week, each of them will face questions...

Jasper Jones has come to my window. I don't know why, but he has. Maybe he's in trouble. Maybe he doesn't have anywhere else to go... Late on a hot summer night at the tail end of 1965, Charlie...

The Green Man’s Maurice Allington is a worldly publican, but haunted. His pub is inhabited by the spirit of Dr Thomas Underhill, the seventeenth-century scholar rumoured to have killed his wife....

Eugenia, an American expatriate brought up in Europe, arrives in rural New England with her charming brother Felix, hoping to find a wealthy second husband after the collapse of her marriage to a...

This Faust-like and magical story of the humanization of a middle-aged misanthrope is a portrait of a man who felt himself to be half-human and half-wolf. It can also be seen as a plea for...

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...

It is 1976, and American student Alice Bourne is heading for Slapton Sands on the south Devon coast to research a catastrophe which claimed the lives of almost 1,500 American marines. Nobody seems...

Maria is a Brazilian girl, convinced from an early age that she will never find true love. A chance meeting in Rio takes her to Geneva, but the glittering life she hoped for was a fantasy. The...

Gordon Comstock, poet and author, gives up a good job to become a part-time bookshop assistant, thereby gaining time to write. Despite some modest success, he embarks on a long slide into penury...

A beautifully controlled and powerful story of love and conscience, will and desire begins when a mysterious young girl arrives to take up a post at the seedy Hotel du Lion D’Or in a small...