Back in 1988, a young
author emerged onto the crime scene with a fresh and inspiring New York
crime series starring a young aspiring film-maker
- Rune. The series quickly established their author as one to watch. In
this opener, Rune becomes the obsessed with the murder of one of the
customers at her video store.
The phenomenally
successful Jack Higgins teams up with Justin Richards to launch a sure
fire best seller for children. The mother of fourteen-year-old twins...
So begins the
delightfully reticent love affair between Miss Helene Hanff of New York
and Messrs Marks and Co, sellers of rare and secondhand books, at 84
Charing Cross Road, London. For 20 years, this outspoken New York writer
and Frank Doel, a rather more restrained London bookseller carry on an
increasingly touching correspondence.
When Elizabeth
Glendinning QC dies of a sudden heart attack while making
a desperate phone call to the police, her colleagues and family are
devastated, and mystified. What was she doing in east London at the time
of her death, and what was she trying to tell Inspector Cartwright in
her last phone call?
When she loses her
high-powered job, her husband and her plush Park Avenue apartment in one
afternoon, Ivy Ames emerges broken but unbowed. The newly single
mother-of-two picks herself up, dusts herself down and reinvents herself
as a private school admissions advisor. But Ivy has no
idea what she's let herself in for.
Disillusioned by her
glitzy life in London and her desirable but cruel TV-presenter
boyfriend, Rosie Richardson chucks it all in and spends four years
running a refugee camp in Africa. Then famine strikes in a nearby
province and an influx of starving refugees threatens to overwhelm the
camp. Frustrated by the cautious response of the aid agencies, Rosie
decides on a drastic short-term solution.
Baby is twelve years
old. Her mother died not long after she was born and she lives in a
string of seedy flats in Montreal's red light district with her father
Jules, who takes better care of his heroin addiction than he does of his
daughter. Jules is an intermittent presence and a constant source of
chaos in Baby's life - the turmoil he brings with him and the wreckage
he leaves in his wake.
"White Gold" is an
extraordinary and shocking story. Drawn from unpublished letters and
manuscripts written by slaves, and by the padres
and ambassadors sent to free them, it reveals a disturbing and forgotten
chapter of history, told with all the pace and verve of one of
our finest historians.
When Tess Durbeyfield
is driven by family poverty to claim kinship with the wealthy
D’Urbervilles and seek a portion of their family fortune, meeting her
‘cousin’ Alec proves to be her downfall. A very different man, Angel
Clare, seems to offer her love and salvation, but Tess must choose
whether to reveal her past or remain silent in the hope of a peaceful
future.
Interweaving real and
fictional elements, The American Boy is a major new literary historical
crime novel in the tradition of An Instance of the Fingerpost and
Possession. England 1819: Thomas Shield, a new master
at a school just outside London, is tutor to a young American boy and
the boy's sensitive best friend, Charles Frant. Drawn to Frant's
beautiful, unhappy mother, Thomas becomes caught up in her family's
twisted intrigues.
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