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Campion’s glorious summer in Pontisbright is blighted by death. Amidst the preparations for Minnie and Tonker Cassand’s fabulous summer party a murder is discovered and it falls for Campion to unravel the intricate web of motive, suspicion and deduction with all his imagination and skill.
Grayson Perry, the controversial winner of the 2003 Turner prize is one of Britain’s most talented and provocative artists. In this funny and unsettling biography, Wendy Jones tells the story of his childhood and youth, until at last, in his early twenties, he steps out as a potter and transvestite.
Los Angeles, 1991. Ambassador Maximilian Ophuls, one of the makers of the modern world, is murdered in broad daylight on his illegitimate daughter India’s doorstep, slaughtered by a knife wielded by his Kashmiri Muslim driver, a mysterious figure who calls himself Shalimar the clown.
When Charles A. Lindbergh defeated Franklin Roosevelt by a landslide in the 1940 presidential election, fear invaded every Jewish household in America. What then followed in America is the historical setting for this novel.
At the age of 15, Kafka Tamura runs away from home, either to escape a gruesome oedipal prophecy or to search for his long-lost mother and sister. Instead, he finds himself setting out on an odyssey where he shall encounter some very strange characters indeed.
A murder mystery like no other, this novel features Christopher Boone, a 15 year-old who suffers from Asperger’s syndrome. When he finds a neighbour’s dog murdered, he sets out on a journey which will turn his whole world upside down.
Charles Highway, a precociously intelligent and highly sexed teenager, is determined to sleep with an older woman before he turns twenty. Rachel fits the bill perfectly and Charles plans his seduction meticulously, sets the scene with infinite care – but it doesn’t come off quite as Charles expects.
Fight Club – a place where young men with good white-collar jobs and absent fathers can fight each other barehanded – is the invention of Tyler Durden, a dark, anarchic genius who plans revenge on the world, in this apocalyptic, bleakly funny novel.
‘Crow Lake’ is a slow-burning story of families growing up and tearing each other apart. Kate, now a zoologist, can identify organisms under a microscope, but seems blind to the tragedy of her emotional life. She thinks she has outgrown her family, but she can’t seem to outgrow her childhood.
Viktor is lonely, with only Misha, his penguin, for company. He is desperate to earn a living as a writer. He gets a break when the editor-in-chief of a major newspaper commissions him to write obituaries of Kiev’s VIP’s. But are his worries now over?
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