One house, 10 contestants, 30 cameras. Another group of people submit themselves to the exposure of the televised real-life soap opera. But this time it's different. Who is the murderer? How did they manage to kill under the constant gaze of 30 cameras? How did they do it? And who will be next?

With old friends like these, who needs enemies? It's a question short, mild mannered detective Edward Newson is forced to ask himself having in romantic desperation logged on to the Friends Reunited website searching for the girlfriends of his youth. Newson is not the only member of the Class of '86 who has been raking over the ashes of the past. As his old class begins to reassemble in ...

Stephen Fry's breathtakingly outrageous debut novel, by turns eccentric, shocking, brilliantly comic and achingly romantic.

By the author of Canal Dreams and The Wasp Factory , this novel is about three men - Graham Park, Steven Grant and Quiss. No trio of people could be further apart, but their separate courses are set for collision.

Ken Nott is a devoutly contrarian, vaguely left-wing radio shock-jock living in London. After a wedding breakfast, people start dropping fruits from a balcony on to a deserted car park below. As they get carried away, dropping more, they're told a plane has just crashed into the World Trade Center.

Contemporary - and how! - novel by 'the most imaginative British novelist of his generation' (The Times)