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The past is another country and we are all its exiles. Banished forever, we look back in fascination and wonder at this mysterious land. Who were the people who populated it?Almost two hundred years ago, Abraham, an illiterate urchin, scavenges on a Suffolk beach and dreams of running away to sea... Naomi, a seventeen-year-old seamstress, sits primly in a second class carriage on the train from Sussex to London and imagines a new life in the b...

This book defies categorisation. It's a history, it's a novel, almost it's a kind of archaeology, an investigation into the reality of the past and an exploration of that uncertain borderland which lies between fact and fiction. Using archive material Mawer has picked through the traces left behind by his mid-nineteenth-century ancestors to find out how they might have been and what might have happened to them. There were few artefacts - a fun...

A new novel from the Booker Prize-shortlisted author of The Glass Room and The Girl Who Fell from the Sky.

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Londra, anni Quaranta. Il mondo è in guerra e può capitare che una bella ragazza si ritrovi a colloquio, in un appartamento squallido e quasi vuoto di un ex albergo di Northumberland Avenue, con un fantomatico signor Potter appartenente all'altrettanto fantomatico Inter Services Research Bureau. La ragazza, tailleur grigio e camicetta bianca, si chiama Marian Sutro, di padre inglese e madre francese. Fino a qualche tempo fa viveva sulle dolci ...

In the summer of 1968, the year of Prague Spring with a Cold War winter, Oxford students James Borthwick and Eleanor Pike set out to hitchhike across Europe, complicating a budding friendship that could be something more.

Der größte König der Welt ist tot! Im Jahr 520 A.D. fällt König Arthur in der Schlacht von Camlann. Arthurs loyaler Ritter Sir Bedivere bringt das sagenumwobene Schwert Excalibur zurück zur Seegöttin, die es einst übergab. Viele Jahre später erfährt der junge Owain, der vogelfrei auf der Flucht ist, dass er der uneheliche Sohn von König Arthur ist und nimmt das Erbe seines Vaters als Herrscher und Beschützer der Schwachen an.

Der größte König der Welt ist tot! Im Jahr 520 A.D. fällt König Arthur in der Schlacht von Camlann. Arthurs loyaler Ritter Sir Bedivere bringt das sagenumwobene Schwert Excalibur zurück zur Seegöttin, die es einst übergab. Viele Jahre später erfährt der junge Owain, der vogelfrei auf der Flucht ist, dass er der uneheliche Sohn von König Arthur ist und nimmt das Erbe seines Vaters als Herrscher und Beschützer der Schwachen an.

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1968. Prague.Two British students are hitchhiking across Europe.A young diplomat is trying to smuggle a high-profile defector to safety.The Red Army masses on the border.A city in crisis and a world on the brink.Prague Spring.'Mawer is a superb chronicler of past events in foreign countries, and Prague Spring is a wonderfully atmospheric portrait of the city as well as a political and historical thriller with dashes of espionage. It is as bril...

First published in Great Britain in 2018 by Little, Brown"--Copyright page.

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Inspired by a real house, this is the tale of the people that come and go from Landauer House over the years, as it passes from Czech to Russian hands. Shortlisted for the Booker Prize, it follows Mawer's previous novels The Gospel Of Judas, The Fall and Swimming To Ithaca.

The paperback edition of the latest novel from Mawer, whose book "The Glass Room" was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. Set during WWII, it follows Marian Sutro, the half French, half British daughter of a diplomat, who's recruited from her desk job by SOE to go undercover in France. A gripping adventure story and a moving meditation on patriotism, betrayal and the limits of love. 'If you only read one book this year, read this one' Allan ...

Now in paperback, this is a Cold War spy story, from the author of "The Glass Room", which was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. The sequel to "The Girl Who Fell From The Sky", it follows Marian Sutro in dreary 1950s London, but where, in the complexities of peacetime, do her loyalties lie? 'Simon Mawer is a true master of literary espionage...' "Mail On Sunday