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Summer 1936 and the world is on the cusp of change, but there's little sign of this in rural Sussex. When Kitty Allen answers an advert for "a good plain cook', despite hardly knowing how to boil an egg, she has no idea what she's in for. Her employers are rich bohemians who see themselves as champions of "the people" - but know nothing about how the people actually live. Out of her depth and surrounded by madness, it becomes clear that life i...

Sex and the occult explored by a subversive, nasty, in-your-face art terrorist.

An outstanding debut that crackles with the same white lightning as a James Ellroy of James Crumley.

Sea of Love meets Thelma and Louise.

A transgressive love story by a singular new voice

First novel by Indian American poet and novelist which is in the words of Jane DeLynn "Very good, very intelligent, moving...An exciting debut

A spellbinding story of forbidden love in the 1950s, now a major movie starring Anna Paquin and Holliday Grainger

The light greenery of the early summer is trembling around Erik and Julia as they shove their children into the car and start the drive towards the house by the sea on the west coast of Finland where they will spend the summer. From the outside they are a happy young family looking forward to a long holiday together. But look under the surface, and their happiness shows signs of not lasting the summer. On the eve of the holiday, Erik lost his ...

Shows how actions of the present are determined by thoughts of the past.

In a quaint Austrian ski resort, things are not quite what they seem. Hermann, the manager of a paper mill, has decided that sexual gratification begins at home. Which means Gerti - his wife and property. Gerti is not asked how she feels about the use Hermann puts her to. She is a receptacle into which Hermann pours his juices, nastily, briefly, brutally. The long-suffering and battered Gerti thinks she has found her saviour and love in Michae...

The first English translation of this classic great modern European novel. Jorg Fauser casts an eye over the times he lived in and his own life: a junkie in Istanbul, the move to a commune in Berlin and a squat in Frankfurt, work on an underground magazine and unceasing efforts to get a novel published.

Breaking down the job of soccer management into its different components and showing exactly what skills the great managers have

Judas Iscariot's here, look. Here comes Judas Iscariot...'Nine-year old Sean has never seen anything like what happens on the day Margaret Thatcher takes power and his grandad discovers his uncle voted for her. So begins the start of a family secret and the end of Sean's idyllic childhood in the industrial Midlands-until, one day, deciding that someone's got to stop the train of destruction, he sets out for revenge.A heartbreaking and timely s...

El Paso and Ciudad Ju¿z sit across the Texas / Mexico border from each other. They share streets, industry, crime. One gang claims territory in both: Los Aztecas. This single criminal organisation is responsible for most of the homicides committed in Ju¿z, and Felipe Morales is one of them.Recruited in prison, and now on the streets of El Paso, 'Flip' has no choice but to step further into that world, but he has a secret that threatens his lif...

Summer, 1951. Two suspected spies, Burgess and Maclean, have disappeared, and the nation is obsessed with their whereabouts. Speculation is at fever pitch when Colin Harris, a member of the Communist Party who has been in Germany for several years, turns up to see his old friends Dinah and Alan Wentworth. He has news: he has fallen in love with a girl in East Berlin, and is coming home - with her - for good. Meanwhile, Jack McGovern, who somet...

Set in 60s Soho, a young PC stumbles across the body of a young, murdered prostitute, and his investigation leads him deep into the dark underbelly of colourful Soho.

This extraordinary novel is based on a true story. In Auschwitz, Rudi Friemel is privileged. He's given work as a car mechanic and his days are spent servicing the vehicles of the SS. When he petitions to be allowed to marry his love, Marga and make his son legitimate, his petition is eventually granted although no one knows why. Rudi's wife and child are then brought to Auschwitz, his father and brother come from Vienna. The officials who nor...

Explodes the gulf between modern materialism and traditional values.

The Beach on ice: deep powder, dead poets, and moral free-fall in the world's death-sport capital.

Raymond's last book, unpublished in his lifetime