Jonathan Cape
Warlight
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The title of this dreamlike novel refers to the tiny, discreet points of London street illumination used during the WWII…
The Western Wind
England in February 1491. John Reve is the priest in the small, benighted village of Oakham, in Somerset. He is…
The Only Story
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England in the early 1960s. Paul Roberts is nineteen and home for the summer holidays after completing his first year…
Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How It Changed the World
With the recent emergence of a particularly nasty strain of a flu virus, ostensibly from Australia, causing immense discomfort to…
Queens of the Conquest, 1066-1167
Alison Weir charts the lives of Matilda of Flanders, wife of William the Conqueror; Matilda of Scotland, wife of Henry…
Eureka
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London in the swinging sixties. Having been a failed actor, Nat Fane is a playwright/screenwriter in his late 30s who…
The Long Weekend: Life in the English Country House Between the Wars
The title of this volume reflects a certain nostalgic appeal, as being the final time that large English (mostly) rural…
The Stopped Heart
Mary and Graham Coles, attempting to rebuild after a tragedy, move into a cottage in a small English village. Mary,…
Freya
The novel starts at the end of the Second World War. Freya Wyley, aged 20, has been doing intelligence work…
The Noise of Time
This is a fictional account of the life of the Soviet composer Dmitri Shostakovich. It is by no means a…
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