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So speaks the narrator of Muriel Spark’s haunting tale, ‘The Leaf-Sweeper’, before going on to recount the disturbing and mercilessly witty story of a certain ‘madman’ – Johnnie Geddes, hell-bent on outlawing Christmas – who meets the most terrifying of all apparitions: himself.
A collection of ingeniously crafted, classic horror stories to fire the imagination and give you chills.
Nostalgic, razor-sharp and deliciously peculiar, this is a weird but wonderful comedy of manners by the award-winning author of The Tap Dancer.
New York, 1924. Patricia and Peter are a thoroughly modern married couple. Both drink. Both smoke. Both work. Both believe in ‘Love-Outside-Marriage’. Until they don’t. Or, really, until he doesn’t. So when Peter pushes for divorce with increasing violence, Patricia has to forge a new life as a single woman: as an ex-wife.
An entrancing anthology of fantasy short stories full of magic, adventure and surprise.
A collection of classic tales of adventure, capturing the thrill, the danger and the allure of the sea.
The first book in the landmark Cazalet Chronicles, previously a BBC radio and TV series. With the onset of war, The Light Years reveals a privileged family facing uncertain times.
WINNER OF THE COSTA BOOK OF THE YEAR 2013
WINNER OF THE SPECSAVERS POPULAR FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR 2014
WINNER OF THE BETTY TRASK PRIZE 2014
OVER FIVE MILLION COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDE
‘A veritable work of art’ Rose Tremain
‘A truly magical experience’ Guardian
‘Triumphant’ Wall Street Journal
The international bestseller from the Booker Prize-shortlisted author
‘Ghosh has established himself as one of the finest prose writers of his generation’ Financial Times
Summer, 1867: The newlywed Dostoevsky and his young wife Anna – his one-time secretary – are travelling to the German spa resort of Baden-Baden on honeymoon. Their love is ecstatic, yet the author is plagued by demons: haunted by his crimes and punishments, consumed by fevers of jealousy, gambling to avoid mounting debts and shaken by epileptic fits. Winter, 1970s: Our Jewish narrator embarks on a pilgrimage from Moscow to Leningrad to trace the footsteps of his literary hero. As the train travels across the Soviet Union’s bleak expanses, he immerses himself in Anna’s travel journal: and their journeys – past and present, real and imagined – soon become entwined.
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