In this delicately wrought and profoundly moving, multi-award winning novel, Andrea Levy handles the weighty themes of empire, prejudice, war and love, with a lightness of touch and a generosity of spirit that challenges and uplifts the reader.

The stars of a new TV series called Manhattan share their secrets with millions. Offstage they are ordinary people with hopes and dreams, lives and loves, every bit as real, and as the viewers watch the dream unfold the actors share their passions and pains in the performance of their lives.

Sex, intrigue and adultery in the world of high politics and huge wealth in late eighteenth-century England.

A revealing - amusing and sad - biography of a unique family

When Bertie Wooster goes to Totleigh Towers to pour oil on the troubled waters of a lovers' breach between Madeline Bassett and Gussie Fink-Nottle, he isn't expecting to see Aunt Dahlia - nor to be instructed by her to steal silver. But purloining the antique cow creamer from under the nose of Sir Watkyn Bassett is the least of Bertie's tasks.