Features Sid Halley, ex-jockey turned investigator, who appears in Odds Against and Whip Hand . Sid has uncovered a crime committed by a friend. On the morning of the friend's trial, at which Sid is a witness, other people's miseries send him into new dangers.

Set before and during the great war, this work captures the drama of that era on both a national and a personal scale. It is the story of Stephen, a young Englishman, who arrives in Amiens in 1910. His life goes through a series of traumatic experiences, from the clandestine love affair to the unprecedented experiences of the war itself.

Two little girls are taken by their mother to Morocco on a 1960s pilgrimage of self-discovery. For Mum, it is not just an escape from the grinding conventions of English life but a quest for personal fulfilment; her children, however, seek something more solid and stable amidst the shifting desert sands.

Alex-Li Tandem sells autographs. A small blip in a huge worldwide network of desire, it is his business to hunt for names on paper, collect them, sell them, and occasionally fake them to give the people what they want: a little piece of fame.

Set in Lyme Regis in 1867, 'The French Lieutenant's Woman' tells the story of a woman wronged, depicted against an unrelenting Victorian England.

Offers an unofficial account of Noah's Ark and his Voyage, which explains about how the human race has subsequently developed.