The Harmony Silk Factory
A landmark work of fiction from one of Britain’s most exciting new writers: The Harmony Silk Factory is a devastating love story set against the turmoil of mid-twentieth century Malaysia.
Romance
Maynard and Jennica
A brilliantly inventive comic love-story, set in and around New York at the beginning of the 21st century.
The Essence of the Thing
An exciting new talent, shortlisted for the 1997 Booker Prize, hailed as ‘a triumph’ by The Times, and a poignant observer of human hearts, foibles and follies. ‘’There isn’t a false note in the book, nothing but ravishing grace, wit and tender feelings.’ Mail on Sunday
White Lies
‘Dexter Petley perfect writer’s eye gives us a candenced love story…Gripping, dryly hysterical, “White Lies” reeks of beauty and human truth.’ Alan Warner
The Calligrapher
A gripping story of modern-day love and old-fashioned revenge. He is not quite as clever as he thinks he is. She is smarter than she seems.
The Pursuit of Alice Thrift
The stunning new novel from Elinor Lipman, the sparkling comic writer praised by Maggie O’Farrell as ‘Hilarious. Imagine, if you can, a cross between Philip Roth and Melissa Bank.’
The Calligrapher
A gripping story of modern-day love and old-fashioned revenge. He is not quite as clever as he thinks he is. She is smarter than she seems.
The Republic of Love
‘“The Republic of Love” marries a wide diversity of elements, mythical and modern, ironic and moving, exhilarating and melancholy…a love-surveying story that is enticingly seductive.’ Times Literary Supplement
Don’t Tell Me the Truth About Love
Erotic, passionate, tragic or doomed, love is above all a game of allusiveness and nuance, of fabulous grotesques and intimate
Gramercy Park
Paul Cohen’s sumptumous debut novel captures the high drama and low dealings that lie behind the polished facade of fin de siecle New York.
Our Dancing Days
Lucy English’s third novel is set in a Suffolk commune in the Seventies where, beneath the blissful summer surface, the young inhabitants are caught in a downward spiral ending in tragedy.
If Only It Were True
Fall in love all over again … Imagine … A couple unlike any you’ve ever met. A situation even they don’t understand. A spellbinding love story. And a remarkable literary debut. Marc Levy’s IF ONLY IT WERE TRUE.
Our Dancing Days
Lucy English’s third novel is set in a Suffolk commune in the Seventies where, beneath the blissful summer surface, the young inhabitants are caught in a downward spiral ending in tragedy.
Kitty and Virgil
A love story set in Romania and England by the author of the Booker shortlisted bestseller, ‘Gabriel’s Lament’. Paul Bailey’s most ambitious novel yet.