Mr. Barrett's SecretAmis's first volume of short stories for over a decade includes Mr Barrett's secret account of his daughter Elizabeth's involvement with the poet Browning, and a sardonic depiction of the capitulation of America to Japan in World War II. By the author of "The Old Devils" and "Memoirs".

if anything

Slow Man is a masterful work of fiction by one of the world's greatest writers

the solitary hunter who took her in when she was just seven years old

the Hunter children build a separate universe

What follows is life-and-death hunt for a notorious former concentration camp-commander - a man responsible for the deaths of thousands

this clever

a sojourn as the writer in residence on a cruise liner during which she encounters a fellow guest lecturer

Flyte is brilliantly funny

breathtakingly ambitious and accomplished debut novel by a young writer of astonishing gifts

to the vast undercroft beneath it

the tortuous alliances between men and women

'I absolutely loved this' - N