Chatto & Windus
Angel Time: The Songs of the Seraphim
This is historical fiction split between 13th-century England and 21st-century America. Anne Rice, known for her Vampire Chronicles and her…
Ruby’s Spoon
Small, landlocked, and economically depressed in 1933, the English town of Cradle Cross isn’t a place one goes for an…
The Dogs and the Wolves
Irène Némirovsky was born in Kiev in 1903, the daughter of a Jewish banker. In 1918, the family fled the…
The Man in the Wooden Hat
This is a companion novel to Old Filth, published in 2005. As I had not read the first book, this…
Small Wars
Cyprus 1956. The newly promoted Major Hal Treherne is sent to the garrison at Episkopi, where his wife Clara…
Ransom
Editors' choice
Ransom is a diamond of a novel, tiny but flawless, prose so pared away and carefully constructed that however many…
The Lady in Red
When well-bred heiress Seymour Fleming married the urbane Isle of Wight landowner and politician Sir Richard Worsley, it seemed no…
The Children’s Book
Editors' choice
This long-awaited novel, A.S. Byatt’s first since 2001, is extraordinarily difficult to encapsulate and to do full justice within the…
Hammer
Set in Victorian London and concerning a young woman pursued by a master criminal with murder on his mind, this…
Once on a Moonless Night
Editors' choice
This latest novel from the author of Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress is another tour de force of intertwined…
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