Peter Carey's My Life as a Fake is a literate mystery of forgeries and doppelgangers with a fictional manuscript at its heart. The mystery--the origin of a brilliant but p...
'Sometimes I feel that I am destined always to be offstage whenever the main action occurs. That God has made me the victim of some cosmic practical joke, by assigning me ...
The city's booming. The skyline's dominated by a giant new stadium and the derelict docks are being reborn as Cardiff Bay. The Welsh Assembly kicks off in a welter of sexu...
'Moving, wickedly observed, warm, uplifting and above all blindingly funny, Starter for Ten hits the spot time after time. Read this book' (Jack 20030901)
It's 1985 and...
In Everyone Lies by AD Garrett, DCI Kate Simms is on the fast track to nowhere. Five years ago she helped a colleague when she shouldn't have. She's been clawing her way b...
Fierce authentic action, masterful storytelling and a touchingly moving friendship combine in this gripping novel of suspense and revenge, set in an Italy plagued by kidna...
Томас Пинчон — наряду с Сэлинджером «великий американский затворник», один из крупнейших писателей мировой литературы XX, а теперь и XXI века, после первых же публикаций е...
Axel Vander, distinguished intellectual and elderly academic, is not the man he seems.
When a letter arrives out of the blue, threatening to unveil his secrets – and ca...
8 September 1943. Italy has sued for peace with the Allies and 14-year-old Claudette Blum is learning Italian on the run. She and her father are among the thousands of Jew...
Маркус — охотник за аномалиями, человек, одаренный способностью видеть послания зла в самых запутанных преступлениях, но лишенный воспоминаний о своей прежней жизни. Его н...