The Importance of Being Kennedy
A brilliant new novel by Laurie Graham set in wartime London, which follows Kick Kennedy, sister of future US President JFK, as she takes London society by storm.
Fiction based on or inspired by true events
A Girl Made of Dust
A rich and beautiful novel set during the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in the early 1980s, and based on the author’s personal experiences of the conflict.
Half of a Yellow Sun
**DREAM COUNT, the searing new bestselling novel by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, is out now!**
THE WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION ‘WINNER OF WINNERS’
One of the BBC’s ‘100 Novels That Shaped Our World’
Leninsky Prospekt
Leninsky Prospekt is an enthralling novel about conflicting allegiances, to family, friends, nations, ideals, at a time of legendary international tension.
Enemy Women
“A gritty, memorable book … it is a delight from start to finish, without a single misstep.” Tracy Chevalier
Restitution
The new novel from ‘a major writer by any standards: technique, curiosity, erudition, plus the sheer body, range and quality of her work’ (Independent on Sunday). Restitution is the compelling story of a young woman in search of her identity at the end of the century.
Joseph Knight
‘A book of such quality as to persuade you that historical novels are the true business of the writer.’Daily Telegraph
The Edge of the Crowd
The Edge of the Crowd is the gripping story of early days of photography and the search for lost love in Victorian London . RUNNER UP OF THE 2002 ENCORE PRIZE.
The Fanatic
An impressive debut from an exciting new Scottish voice – a stunning novel about history, identity and redemption. A no. 2 best-seller in Scotland.
Morocco
Set in the colourful, threatened world of occupied Warsaw just before the Holocaust, this third novel by a highly praised writer tells the story of Gloria, a young Freudian analyst whose sole client, a Jewish tycoon, fakes his own suicide and thereby drags Gloria into a web of intrigue, deception and betrayal.
The Snake-Oil Dickens Man
A fast, witty and evocative first novel about the allure of the con man, the journey of a young man in search of his father, the loss of innocence and the works of Charles Dickens. Full of adventure, tricks, imagination and originality, The Snake-oil Dickens Man is the assured debut from an exciting new writer.
The Biography of Thomas Lang
An epistolary novel about a concert pianist and a young man’s attempt to write his biography.