From the author of Exciting Times, this is a sparkling ensemble novel about love and marriage, fidelity and betrayal, that is both ferociously clever and supremely enjoyable

From the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Doll Factory, The Burial Plot is an unstoppable historical thriller about murder, manipulation, and a young woman trying to wrestle power from the hands of a dangerous man. But he’s always one step ahead . . .

London, 1839. Where the cemeteries are full and there is money to be made in death, Bonnie and Crawford lead a life of trickery, surviving off ill-gotten coin and nefarious schemes. But one hot evening, their luck runs out. A man lies in...

'An extraordinary book. Truly important. An act of historical testimony all the more trenchant and devastating for being cast as fiction' - William Boyd

A stunning, deeply moving novel about growing up in Beijing in the 1970s and 80s and taking part in Tiananmen Square protests

It is Beijing in the 1970s, and Lai lives with her parents, grandmother and younger brother in a small flat in a working-class area. Her grandmother is a formidable figure – no-nonsense and uncompromising, but loving...

The Women's Prize-winning and Booker-shortlisted international bestselling author returns with a fictionalised account of her grandmother's life

Dazzling...by turns comic, lyrical and heartbreaking' Monica Ali

Choice is a bold and dramatic novel that asks the reader to consider: should we be driven by moral values or market values? And how will the choices we make affect our work, our relationships and our place in the world? In three ingeniously linked but distinct narratives, we meet a publisher who is at war with his industry and himself/an academic who exchanges one story for another, after an accident that brings a stran...

It is 1921 and at Cassowary House in the Straits Settlements of Penang, Robert Hamlyn is a well-to-do lawyer and his steely wife Lesley a society hostess. Their lives are invigorated when Willie, an old friend of Robert's, comes to stay.

Willie Somerset Maugham is one of the greatest writers of his day. But he is beleaguered by an unhappy marriage, ill-health and business interests that have gone badly awry. He is also struggling to write. The more Lesley's friendship with Willie gro...

Michael Burrow is on a walking holiday in Switzerland with his lover, Susan. They have had a long and secret love affair, but now that Susan’s two children have left school, they plan to start their life together. Michael has bought a house for them to live in and, when they return, Susan will break the news to her family. However, their plans are upended when Susan receives a phone call with news of a tragic death. She gets on the next plane back to London, and she and Michael never see ea...

Avril 1999. Mount Pleasant, une paisible bourgade du New Hampshire, est bouleversée par un meurtre. Le corps d'une jeune femme, Alaska Sanders, est retrouvé au bord d'un lac. L'enquête est rapidement bouclée, la police obtenant les aveux du coupable et de son complice. Onze ans plus tard, l'affaire rebondit. Le sergent Perry Gahalowood, de la police d'Etat du New Hampshire, persuadé d'avoir élucidé le crime à l'époque, reçoit une troublante lettre anonyme. Et s'il avait suivi une fa...

Kinderen groeien op, en voor je in de gaten hebt slaan ze hun vleugels uit. Puck gaat naar Indonesië in verband met haar studie biologie. Ze vertelt in simpele bewoordingen waar ze tegenaan loopt. Haar moeder heeft er later enkele gedichten aan toegevoegd. Zo is er een boekje ontstaan. Ook interessant te lezen dat er een enorme ontwikkeling in communiceren heeft plaatsgevonden na het jaar 2000. Het lijkt nog maar zo kort geleden!