Vintage
The Murdered House
This dense novel bears the weight of tragedy, from the shocking murder of a family in remote upper Provence, France…
The Seven Fires of Mademoiselle
Young Carlota is the daughter of an Argentinian diplomat in the US during the Kennedy years. Her governess – the…
Snow Falling on Cedars
In 1954, a fisherman is found dead in the nets of his boat, and a local Japanese-American man is charged…
Captain Blood
Peter Blood, tall, spare, elegant, swarthy as a gipsy, with his startlingly blue eyes, high-bridged nose and thin, firm mouth…
Scaramouche
1788, France. When André-Louis Moreau, illegitimate son of no-one knows who, witnesses the murder of his best friend by the…
Captivated: J. M. Barrie, Daphne du Maurier and the Dark Secret of Neverland
‘Barrie has a fatal touch for those he loves. They die.’ D. H. Lawrence. This fascinating and disturbing book unravels…
The Seance
John Harwood, the Australian author of The Ghost Writer, won the 2004 International Horror Guild Award for Best First Novel.…
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London’s Jazz Age
For American readers, the phrase “lost generation” conjures up the names Hemingway and Fitzgerald and other arty types who spent…
By George
Ventriloquists’ dummies can seem rather macabre and a little disturbing, and this novel has an element of the bizarre about…
Skylark Farm
Editors' choice
Arslan’s luminous debut novel tells the unbearable story of the 1915 Armenian genocide in Turkey. Ethnic Armenian Yerwant Arslanian…
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