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...
An all-absorbing journey into man`s possible past. Jean M. Auel, a storytelling genius, weaves a compellingly readable saga of human survival; an epic that transcends time and place. It is peopled with rich and...
Em adores her funny, glamorous dad - who cares if he`s not her real father? He`s wonderful to her, and to her little brother and sister. True to form at Christmas, Dad gives them fantastic presents, including a real...
The Oldest Member knows everything that has ever happened on the golf course - and a great deal more besides. Take the story of Cuthbert, for instance. He`s helplessly in love with Adeline, but what use are his...
From the master storyteller comes a tale of gothic mystery as elegantly crafted as the most intricate clockwork. A tormented apprentice clock-maker - and a deadly knight in armour. A mechanical prince - and the...
