Emma in Love
The sequel to Jane Austen’s best-loved novel, Emma, by the author of the international best-seller ‘Pemberley’.
Fiction: general and literary
The Hat of Victor Noir
A surreal black comedy set in Paris by the most talented British newcomer since Louis de Bernieres.
The Intruder
A contender for the Grisham/Turow market; an ‘urban Cape Fear’ in which an ambitious New York lawyer, just as he is reaching the peak of his career, finds everything he has worked so hard to achieve is threatened by the arrival in his life of The Intruder, a psychotic homeless bum.
The Cove Shivering Club
The certificate read: ‘Having attained the age of ten years and having completed the crossing off the Cove, JUNIOR NASH is thereby deemed a member of the Cove Shivering Club and entitled to vote in the Presidential Election.’
The Glade Within the Grove
In the tradition of novels by Saul Bellow, James Joyce and Flann O’Brien. Championed by E Annie Proulx.
Misbegotten
A brilliantly constructed thriller by a 26 year old Harvard law student exposing the dark side of suburbia and depicting an inconceivably chilling character in episodes of mounting horror. This is Stephen King meets Ira Levin; ‘Rosemary’s Baby’ with a background of artificial insemination.
The Sunken Road
A consummate masterpiece of structure and style, ‘The Sunken Road’ belongs firmly in the bestselling tradition of Carol Shields’s ‘The Stone Diaries’.
Songs in Ordinary Time
The international No.1 bestseller and the most astonishing publishing success story since The Bridges of Madison County.
Polite Sex
A brilliantly observed, hilarious and poignant social satire. Wilcox’s novels (there are six and characters overlap) have the narrative litheness of Armistead Maupin and the piercing tragi-comic insights of Edith Wharton.
Hanging Up
We’ve had ‘Mommy Dearest’ about Joan Crawford; now Delia Ephron brings us Daddy Dearest in her witty, bittersweet first novel about love, death and the telephone, based on the Ephron sisters’ experiences dealing with the death of their alcoholic father.
Miss Undine’s Living Room
A brilliantly observed, hilarious and poignant social satire. Wilcox’s Tula Springs novels (there are six and characters overlap) have the narrative litheness of an Armistead Maupin and the piercing tragi-comic insights of Edith Wharton.