Tim Clissold In the early 1990s, China finally opened for business, and Wall Street wanted to get in on the act. When the investment bankers arrived from New York with...

Linda Berdoll Every woman wants to be Elizabeth Bennet Darcy-beautiful, gracious, universally admired, strong, daring and outspoken-a thoroughly modern woman in crinolines.And every woman will fall madly in love with...

Andy StantonThe fifth Mr Gum story is shamelessly hilariousGood evening. Do you like bears called Padlock? Course you do. Do you like hot-air balloons? Course you do. Do you like...

Andy StantonThe third side-splittingly funny book in a series for very brave readersWell, that old roo-de-lally Mr Gum and the hideous Billy William the Third are once more mucking things...

Andy StantonIt's hard to believe these books can get any funnier, but readers will be guffawing with glee as they read the fourth book about Mr Gum's evil escapadesCan it...

Author: Jonathan Coe The dazzling new novel from the prize-winning, bestselling author of Middle EnglandIn the heady summer of 1977, a naïve young woman called Calista sets out from Athens to...

Bernardine EvaristoBarrington Jedidiah Walker.Barry to his friends.Trouble to his wife.Seventy-four years old, Antiguan born and bred, flamboyant Hackney personality Barry is known for his dapper taste and fondness for retro...

AB YehoshuaMr. Mani is a deeply affecting six-generation family saga, extending from nineteenth century Greece and Poland to British-occupied Palestine to German-occupied Crete and ultimately to modern Israel. The narrative...

AB Yehoshua Six generations of the Sephardi Mani family are chronicled in this profound and passionate Mediterranean epic, which moves backwards from the 1980s to the mid-nineteenth century. The story...

Dai Sijie   Having enchanted readers on two continents with Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress, Dai Sijie now produces a rapturous and uproarious collision of East and West, a...

Howard Marks The incredible story of an unconventional lifeDuring the mid 1980s Howard Marks had forty three aliases, eighty nine phone lines and owned twenty five companies throughout the world.At...

Elmore Leonard “Sharp as an ice pick….You will love this excellent book.”— New York Times Book Review Elmore Leonard is the undisputed master, the “King Daddy of crime writers” (...