Jonathan Cape

A Short Walk Through A Wide World

By Douglas Westerbeke - Published 2024

Genres:

Historical Fantasy

In 1885 Belle Époque Paris, selfish, ungrateful nine-year-old Aubry Tourvel finds a wooden puzzle ball on a dead man’s doorstep. She picks it ...Read Review

The Future Future

By Adam Thirlwell - Published 2023

Genres:

Literary

It is quite a challenge to succinctly summarise a novel that does not have much of a plot. Literary? Yes, Clever? well, that’...Read Review

The Paper Man

By Billy O'Callaghan - Published 2023

Genres:

Austria in 1938, and the Anschluss with Germany is underway. Matthias Sindelar, the eponymous Paper Man (his nickname), is a gifted football player who ...Read Review

Lessons

By Ian McEwan - Published 2022

Genres:

Literary

Roland Baines, aged 11, arrives in England with his parents. Having lived in Libya, his father in the British army posted there, Roland has ...Read Review

Free Love

By Tessa Hadley - Published 2022

Genres:

Literary

London’s leafy suburbs towards the end of the so-called Summer of Love in 1967, and forty-year-old Phyllis Fischer finds her own different brand ...Read Review

Names of the Women

By Jeet Thayil - Published 2021

Genres:

Inspirational

This novel tells the story of Jesus Christ through the women who followed him and those who were against the man. One of ...Read Review

Queens of the Crusades: Eleanor of Aquitaine and her Successors (England’s Medieval Queens)

By Alison Weir - Published 2020

Genres:

Nonfiction

Weir’s latest non-fiction offering covers the lives of five English medieval queens, from the best-known Eleanor of Aquitaine, through to another Eleanor, ...Read Review

Actress

By Anne Enright - Published 2020

Genres:

Literary

In Enright’s drily humorous and spare prose, she brings to life the fictional actress, Katherine O’Dell, through the eyes of her ...Read Review

The Parisian

By Isabella Hammad - Published 2019

Genres:

Literary

Midhat Kamal, the main character in this story of Europe and Palestine in the early 1900s, leaves Nablus to study medicine in France, ...Read Review

Behind the Throne: A Domestic History of the Royal Household

By Adrian Tinniswood (author) - Published 2018

Genres:

Nonfiction

This is an entertaining and well-researched account of the wide range of activities that need to be performed and provided to allow the ...Read Review

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