Matthew KnealeWINNER OF THE WHITBREAD BOOK AWARD 2000SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2000'Deeply impressive. . . Every page fizzes with linguistic invention' GuardianAn electrifying modern classic - Kneale's sweeping adventure...

Suzanne Goldring   You can pay a terrible price for keeping a promise…Evelyn Taylor-Clarke sits in her chair at Forest Lawns Care Home in the heart of the English countryside,...

Simon MawerLike his father before him, Jamie Matthewson is a world-class mountain climber and, like his father before him, meets his death while pursuing his passion with a recklessness that...

Howard NormanHoward Norman's The Bird Artist, the first book of his Canadian trilogy, begins in 1911. Its narrator, Fabian Vas is a bird artist: He draws and paints the birds...

Victoria Hislop   In the summer of 1972, Famagusta in Cyprus is the most desirable resort in the Mediterranean, a city bathed in the glow of good fortune. An ambitious...

Gunter GrassTHE BOOK: 'Funny, macabre, disgusting, blasphemous, pathetic, horrifying, erotic, it is an endless delirium, an outrageous phantasmagoria in which dustfrom Goethe, Hans Andersen, Swift, Rabelais, Joyce, Aristophanes and Rochester...

Lynda Cohen LoigmanBrooklyn, 1947: in the midst of a blizzard, in a two-family brownstone, two babies are born minutes apart to two women. They are sisters by marriage with an...

Michael DorrisMichael Dorris has crafted a fierce saga of three generations of Indian women, beset by hardships and torn by angry secrets, yet inextricably joined by the bonds of kinship....

Good Soldier Svejk And His Fortunes In The World(The Fateful Adventures of the Good Soldier Švejk During the World War #1-4)Jaroslav HasekIn The Good Soldier Švejk, celebrated Czech writer and...

Julian FellowesDamian Baxter is hugely wealthy and dying. He lives alone in a big house in Surrey, England, looked after by a chauffeur, butler, cook and housemaid. He has but...

Isabel AllendeBorn into a poor family in Spain, Inés, a seamstress, finds herself condemned to a life of hard work without reward or hope for the future. It is the...

Steve Berry   Aleksandr Zorin is a man whose loyalty to the former Soviet Union has festered into an intense hatred of the United States.Ex-Justice Department agent Cotton Malone learns...