Otherwise Engaged - Prijzen

La fille qui lisait dans le metro

Juliette prend le métro tous les jours à la même heure. La ligne 6, c'est chez elle. Elle aime y observer ceux qui lisent : la vieille dame, le collectionneur d'éditions rares, la jeune fille qui pleu...

Life Death Prizes

Shortlisted for the 2012 COSTA Novel Award Billy's Mum is dead. He knows - because he reads about it in magazines - that people die every day in ways that are more random and tragic and stupid than...

Post Office Girl

It's the 1930s. Christine, A young Austrian woman whose family has been impoverished by the war, toils away in a provincial post office. Out of the blue, a telegram arrives from an American aunt she's...

The Universe in Miniature in Miniature

In this genre-busting book from award-winning novelist Patrick Somerville characters, stories, and stray thoughts revolve around the The Machine of Understanding Other People, the story of a Chicago...

The Conversations At Curlew Creek

The year is 1827, and in a remote hut on the high plains of New South Wales, two strangers spend the night in talk. One, Carney, an illiterate Irishman, ex-convict and bushranger, is to be hanged at d...

Jackson's Dilemma

More information to be announced soon on this forthcoming title from Penguin USA

A Universal History of Infamy

The Dog Of The Marriage

From one of the most highly acclaimed short story writers of the last two decades comes a glittering collection about relationships gone awry, sexual obsession, and the unsatisfied longings of everyda...

Geography of Rebels Trilogy

If anyone might be profitably compared to Clarice Lispector, it might well be Maria Gabriela Llansol. This is because of the fundamentally mystical impulse that animates them both, their conception of...

The Summer House Party

In the gloriously hot summer of 1936, a group of people meet at a country house party. Within three years, the country will be engulfed in war, but for now time stands still as they sip champagne on t...

First Casualty

Flanders, June 1917: a British officer and celebrated poet, is shot dead, killed not by German fire, but while recuperating from shell shock well behind the lines. A young English soldier is arrested...

The Woman in the Picture

The page-turning sequel to THE CRIMSON ROOMS by the author of bestselling Richard & Judy Book Club pick, THE ROSE OF SEBASTOPOL. London, 1926. Evie Gifford, one of the first female lawyers in Brita...