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For twenty years Christian Benediktsson has led an orderly but demanding life as butler to the media magnate William Randolph Hearst, famously the inspiration for Citizen Kane, in his San Simeon castle.

`A rich and warm panorama of the gypsy world . . . I plunged with relish into Duke of Egypt' Independent

A heartwrenching and tense drama about a troubled family, who give up everything to join an experimental 'family camp' - with life-changing consequences.

Brick Lane meets Lord of the Flies: an ambitious page-turner and a true literary achievement.

Based on a popular legend in Gansu, the far western province of China, The Tortoise in Asia recounts the exploits of Marcus, a young Roman centurion schooled in the Greek classics who, after a devastating loss in a battle with the Parthians, is taken prisoner, marched along the Silk Road, and pressed ...

"It is not people that kill, but ungovernable passions." The eponymous princesses are both spinsters, but there any similarity ends. Zizi, thwarted in love, takes her lot meekly until she comes face to face with her erstwhile lover’s perfidy, and her sense of justice and familial devotion rise to claim ...

A poignant novel of political-religious awakening by one of Germany's literary stars

A disgraced entertainer, after years in isolation, emerges to lead a violent revolt in the street of Las Vegas

In his trio of bestselling novels - The Sportswriter, Pulitzer Prize and PEN/Faulkner-winning Independence Day, and The Lay of the Land - Richard Ford set out the zeitgeist of an entire generation, through the divining and wit of his now-famous literary chronicler, Frank Bascombe, one of the most indelible, ...

When seventeen-year-old Abigail Walker, desperate to escape her mother's oppressive house and her tedious factory job in the East, responded to the ad, 'Man in Territory seeks correspondence with adventurous gal', she thought she had found her ticket to love and freedom.

A bold, original and exhilarating novel of marriage as blood sport that reads like Revolutionary Road for the era of The Unwinding.

A prizewinning Scandinavian novel of a woman's struggle with the other personalities in ther mind.

A Blackfriars paperback original or fans of Jonathan Franzen, a brilliant and funny novel about the illusion of perfection in relationships or in work.

GENERAL & LITERARY FICTION. A mysterious veiled woman slips into the home of the secretive Judge Ostrander in the town of Shelby. The people of the town rush after her to protect their respected judge but in the confusion and furore that follow, a servant of the house dies. In the solemn atmosphere succeeding ...