Jonathan Cape
A Winding Road
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The circumstances surrounding a masterpiece’s creation – witness Vermeer’s Girl with a Pearl Earring – is fertile ground for fiction writers. In A ...Read Review
Elizabeth’s Women: The Hidden Story of the Virgin Queen
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Elizabeth I knew well the challenges facing her as a woman in a man’s world, yet her genius lay in the ...Read Review
Hodd
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One of Britain’s most critically acclaimed authors, Adam Thorpe, has written another brilliant and original novel. The device is not entirely new (...Read Review
The Best of Men
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I really wanted to enjoy this book. The size didn’t put me off, and the cover informed me that in 1642 one man ...Read Review
Lark and Termite
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Set in 1950s Virginia, Lark and Termite is a suspenseful novel focusing on a cast of characters affected by love, loss, dreams of ...Read Review
American Adulterer
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This novel is unputdownable. Much of what makes it compulsive reading, however, is its voyeuristic quality. Although written in prose of lapidary concision ...Read Review
Cold Blood
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As the Bolsheviks seize power, Charlie Doig, half-Scot, half-Russian, sets off in pursuit of personal vengeance. Acquiring an armoured train and a motley ...Read Review
The Quickening Maze
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England, around 1840, and John Clare, the middle-aged poet of rural England, is incarcerated with his delusions and alter egos in High Beach mental ...Read Review
Lark & Termite
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It’s July 1950, and as Corporal Robert Leavitt commands a platoon in the Korean countryside, his thoughts wander to his wife, Lola, ...Read Review
The Rescue Man
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This is first novel of Anthony Quinn, film critic of The Independent, and a most impressive debut it is. Liverpool 1939 and Tom Baines, ...Read Review