Jonathan Cape
Shadow Ticket
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The latest novel by Thomas Pynchon centers on a union-buster-turned-private eye, Hicks McTaggart, assigned to find a runaway Wisconsin Cheese heiress, daughter of ...Read Review
Queens at War
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Kings get a lot of attention and name recognition, but we often don’t remember or even consider the queens who ruled beside (...Read Review
The Scrapbook
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This debut novel by renowned biographer Heather Clark has a contemporary feel, as much of the story takes place in 1996-1997. Anna, an ...Read Review
A Short Walk Through A Wide World
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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)
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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
