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At 24, Jack is utterly innocent of the world, yet guilty of a monstrous childhood crime. To his new friends, he is a good guy with occasional flashes of unexpected violence. To his new girlfriend, he is strangely inexperienced and unreachable. Can he really start from scratch, forget the past, become someone else?

Wise, inspiring and brilliantly compelling, this is an unforgettable debut novel

A novel on the destructive conflicts within a mixed marriage. She is Swedish and poetic, he is French and unexciting, they live in England with four children and complicating matters is a jealous mother-in-law. By the author of Karin.

The narrator of this debut novel blunders through life until the arrival of Santiago, a male presence who appears in her mind at the age of fourteen. Thanks to Santiago, the naive innocence that has led her into trouble is gone, replaced by a street-smart wisdom that makes her attractive and successful. ...

Robert Maidens leaves England for Albania, where his paltry savings are transformed into riches and make him a landowning grandee (and would-be hotelier). Charlotte arrives at his farm, having heard him shooting. Then the Serb attack on Kosovo sends violence and fear through the land.

At thirty, Luke Reid seems to have an enviable life. But in his thirty-first year, Luke feels a strange new emotion - shame - when his father is implicated in decades of political sleaze. Unlike his mother, older sister and teenage brother, who try to ignore the whole sordid business, Luke decides to tackle the cancer of corruption head-on.

This title manages to relate three seemingly unrelated facts: a town council which has promised a million pounds to the least exciting park in Morecambe; 18 year-old Teena Rama who is 148.7per cent too beautiful; and Mr Landen who has no brain.

The stories in this text give an insight into Indian lives - all linked by family or friendship or just sheer coincidence - and give the reader a poignant reminder of how even the smallest event can cause the greatest effect.

Narrated by the ghost of a murdered woman, this work is set in the Madrid of the author's previous novel, "Blood on the Saddle". It is a blend of crime, science fiction and satire.

Saz Martin is settled into new motherhood with her partner Molly and their nine-month-old daughter Matilda. Things have not been easy since the birth - but with Molly's return to fulltime work and Saz happily taking on the role of Matilda's prime carer, both women feel they are finally adjusting to parenthood and the demands of their new life.

From Ancient Greece, via contemporary Britain, into the future, from childhood to old age and beyond, this work features stories that capture the idiosyncrasies of modern life.

Alison and Veronica meet amid the nocturnal glamour of 1980s New York: one is a former modeling sensation, stumbling away from the wreck of her career, the other a middle-aged proofreader with a meticulous eye. Over the next 20 years, their friendship will encompass narcissism and tenderness, exploitation and self-sacrifice, love and mortality.

A novel of sexual obsession, the danger of innocence, and one man's attempt at redemption.

A hilarious novel about the ultimate fantasy for anyone who has never been afraid to admit they inhaled!

The story of a successful couple with three children and a large country house whose lives are overtaken ? and nearly ruined ? by a serious political scandal.