Suite Francaise

Describes about young women forced into marriages with old men, about mothers and daughters, stepmothers and stepdaughters, youthful passions and the regrets of old age, about peasant communities and the way they hide their secrets. This novel is a morality tale with doubtful morals, and a story of murder, love and betrayal in rural France.

Born into poverty on the Black Sea, Golder has clawed his way to fabulous wealth by speculating on gold and oil. But Golder's security is fragile. For years, he has defended his business interests from cut-throat competitors. Now, his health is beginning to show the strain. This title offers a portrait of the frenzied capitalism of the 1920s.

'A gripping detective story, a stirring epic, a tale of ghosts and dark marvels, a thrilling display of scholarship, a meditation on the unfathomable mystery of good and evil, The Lost is as complex and rich with meaning and story as the past it seeks to illuminate. A beautiful book, beautifully written.' Michael Chabon

Old Filth was a child of the raj. His earliest memories are of his amah, a teenage Malay girl. But soon he is torn away from the only person who loves him and sent to be educated at home, where he is boarded out with strangers. What is the terrible secret the children shared? What happened at the farmhouse in the Lake District?

The nine surviving children of the Hegarty clan gather in Dublin for the wake of their wayward brother Liam. It wasn't the drink that killed him - although that certainly helped - it was what happened to him as a boy in his grandmother's house, in the winter of 1968. This is a novel about how our fate is written in the body, not in the stars.

Set in occupied wartime France, this is the story of a successful woman whose carefully constructed and hidden past threatens to be exposed by her profiteering nephew.

Major new novel from the 2003 Orange Prize-winning author of PROPERTY

Bestselling author Dorothy Garlock returns to 1930s America in a poignant novel about the men and women living and loving in the heartland.

A work made up of sixty-six 'books' and divided into two Testaments, the Bible has been transformed by its various translations into a single work. This work presents an account, which discusses the conception, gestation, life and afterlife of the collection of 'books' to analyse how the scripture was collected into one work.

Ireland was too small for Ginger Coffey. No matter how hard he tried to get on, he just ended up as a glorified errand boy. That was why he emigrated to Canada with his wife and daughter. But even there his manifold talents were slow to be recognized. By the author of The Colour of Blood .