Fame is in the air! Personal shopper Annie Valentine has her own fashion show, on TV! But with success comes pressure: is she at risk of being replaced? To guarantee one unforgettable episode, Annie whisks the crew...
When Philip Swallow and Professor Morris Zapp participate in their universities` Anglo-American exchange scheme, the Fates play a hand, and each academic finds himself enmeshed in the life of his counterpart on the...
When you`re sixteen, pregnant and alone, sixties London is anything but Charity Stratton`s bleak childhood is changed for ever when both her parents are killed in a fire. Separated by the authorities from her younger...
In 1942, Charlotte Gray, a young Scottish woman, heads for Occupied France on a dual mission - officially, to run an apparently simple errand for a British special operations group and unofficially to search for her...
Can the future ever erase the past? Rose has a Cross mother and a nought father in a society where the pale-skinned noughts are treated as inferiors and those with dual heritage face a life-long battle against...
Childrens Book (Man Booker Prize shortlist09)
Olive Wellwood is a famous writer, interviewed with her children gathered at her knee. For each of them she writes a separate private book, bound in different colours and placed on a shelf. In their rambling house...
Victor Mancini has devised a complicated scam to pay for his mother`s hospital care: pretend to be choking on a piece of food in a restaurant and the person who `saves you` will feel responsible for you for the rest...
Victor Mancini has devised a complicated scam to pay for his mother`s hospital care: pretend to be choking on a piece of food in a restaurant and the person who `saves you` will feel responsible for you for the rest...
