Set in Chile and goldrush California during the middle years of the nineteenth century, this magnificent romance tells the story of English foundling Eliza Sommers, a spirited, sparky and ambitious romantic who becomes embroiled in a forbidden love affair with the...
Set in Normandy just before the outbreak of the Second World War, The Watcher in the Shadows tells the story of a mysterious toymaker who lives as a recluse in an old mansion, and fourteen-year-old Irene whose mother has taken the job as housekeeper in the house which...
It's 1932, Ben and his friends are due to leave the orphanage which has been their home for sixteen years. Tonight will be the final meeting of their secret club, in the old ruin they christened The Midnight Palace. Then Ben discovers he has a sister - and together...
"The Angels's Game draws with relish on all the conventions beloved of Wilkie Collins and Dickens...weaving them into something entirely original and surprisingly moving that holds the reader's expectations until the final twist." The Observer In an abandoned mansion...
1943. As war sweeps across Europe, Max Carver's father moves his family away from the city to an old wooden house on the coast. But as soon as they arrive, strange things begin to happen: Max discovers a garden filled with eerie statues; his sisters are plagued by...
"One who reads is worth two who don't." Our Riches celebrates the love of books in the person of Edmond Charlot, who in 1935, at the age of twenty, founded Les Vraies Richesses, an iconic Algerian bookstore/printing press/library. Charlot, famous for discovering...
At the Bar Lume, in a small coastal resort in Northern Italy, between shots of espresso and hands of cards, four old-timers and Massimo the barman while away the time chatting, arguing and theorising about the murder of a young woman in their town.They analise the...
The first in the famous Neapolitan quartet of novels, in My Brilliant Friend we meet Elena and Lila for the first time as they navigate the beginning of their lifelong friendship, the poverty of 1950s Naples, and the inexplicable behaviour of adults. A literary...
"That afternoon the little beach seemed to be on fire. There was a whiplash of light in the air, or maybe it was inside us. Who knows? Our legs were still wet from the sea. Sand glinted down the length of Borja's ankles like tiny slivers of tin. The man was face down,...
Together with her partner, the Hungarian Endre Friedmann, Gerda Taro was one half of the alias Robert Capa, widely considered to be the twentieth century's greatest war and political photographer. Taro was killed while documenting the Spanish Civil War and tragically...