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Deception, blackmail, murder, revenge are the themes of these ten stories that move from London to the coast of Spain, from Dublin to Dordogne. The title story tells of a successful businessman who can have anything he wants from life and yet is still bored. A Careful Man tells of a wealthy coin dea...

Nicholas Coughlan is twelve years old when his father, an Irish civil servant, announces that God has commanded him to become a painter. He abandons the family and a wife who is driven to despair. Years later, Nicholas's own civil-service career is disrupted by tragic his father has burned down the ...

At nineteen, Frank Friedmaier is thief, pimp and murderer. He has never known his father, his mother keeps a brothel. His mind is cold and inhospitable. But Simenon reveals the obsession with self-torture that lurks within it, and explores the intricate psychology of a young criminal, even lending t...

In this harrowing illumination of the psychotic mind, the enviable Tom Ripley has a lovely house in the French countryside, a beautiful and very rich wife, and an art collection worthy of a connoisseur. But such a gracious life has not come easily. One inopportune inquiry, one inconvenient friend, a...

An explosive thoroughly intriguing espionage thriller from the author of the international bestseller Daddy. After he claims to be a notorious spy called "Jaguar", in order to impress a beautiful heiress, millionaire Candido Calvanti is blamed for a rash of murders committed by the fictitious Jaguar--and plunged into an electrifying global race for survival.

A brand new thriller from the master of contemporary espionage, featuring Gabriel Allon - international art restorer, spy and assassin.A heart-stopping tale of suspense, Daniel Silva's runaway bestseller, The Black Widow, was one of 2016's biggest novels. Now, in House of Spies, Gabriel Allon is bac...

Modigliani. Unarguably one of the greatest artists who ever lived. Modigliani's women. Those elongated, haunting figures, as eternally provocative as the Mona Lisa. Adn Modigliani's missing masterpiece. A priceless lost treasure - or a chillingly dangerous game? Up and coming artist Peter Usher has ...

Guys are in trouble these days, says Garrison Keillor. Years ago, manhood was an opportunity for achievement and now it's just a problem to be overcome. Guys who once might have painted the Sistine Chapel ceiling are now just trying to be Mr. O.K. All-Rite, the man who can bake a cherry pie, be pass...

With soaring vision and profound intelligence, Robert Stone has written a harrowing, breathtaking novel about our desperate search, at any price, for the consolation of redemption—and about the people who are all too willing to provide it. A violent confrontation in the Gaza Strip, a mind-altering...

A masterly epic that weaves a contemporary search for a missing father with a vivid story from the heyday of the British Empire.Liv, a Canadian filmmaker, is writing from a Tahitian jail, piecing together her troubled past and her family's buried history for the unknown daughter she gave up at birth...

A group of women caught up in the special problems of womanhood seek to establish their own values

Youn can't keep a good woman down, The third life of Grange Copeland, Meridian

Stephen Adam's first novel explores a 21st century world in which Christianity has been repressed or neutralized and in which the horrors of the law of unintended consequences begin to emerge--especially on Halloween.

In 1972, two seconds were added to time. It was in order to balance clock time with the movement of the earth. Byron Hemming knew this because James Lowe had told him and James was the cleverest boy at school. But how could time change? The steady movement of hands around a clock was as certain as t...

The Saturday Book provided literary and artistic commentary about life in Britain during the Second World War and the ensuing decades. It covered a range of arts, including ballet and music. Many writers contributed poems as well as essays.

Joris-Karl Huysmans' Against Nature (À rebours), translated by Robert Baldick, is a seminal Decadent novel about the reclusive aristocrat Jean Des Esseintes, who rejects modern society's vulgarity for an isolated villa, creating a world of artificial beauty through exotic art, literature, rare perf...

From one of the sharpest voices in fiction today, a profound and enthralling novel about beauty, power, and capital's influence on art and those who devote their lives to creating it.Once, Jay was an artist. Shortly after graduating from his London art school, he was tipped for greatness, a promisin...

“Historical fiction of the highest order. an absolute joy of a book, warm and romantic, and with so much to say about the lives of women in the years following World War I."—Ann Napolitano, bestselling author of Hello BeautifulA timeless comedy of manners—refreshing as a summer breeze and brac...

Willy Vlautin’s award-winning novel Lean on Pete, a moving and compassionate story about a fifteen-year old-boy's unlikely connection to a failing racehorse as he struggles to find a place to call home—now a major motion picture from A24, the studio behind Moonlight and Lady Bird, starring Charl...

GIRLCRUSH is a dark feminist comedy by bestselling author Florence Given.In Given's debut novel, we follow Eartha on a wild, weird and seductive modern-day exploration as she commences life as an openly bisexual woman whilst also becoming a viral sensation on Wonder Land, a social media app where pe...

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER'Smart, ambitious and so beautifully written. An amazing literary feat' CURTIS SITTENFELD'Epic in spirit and scope. A soaring masterclass' TELEGRAPH (five stars)I WAS BORN TO BE A WANDERERFrom the night she is rescued as a baby out of the flames of a sinking ship; t...