This Bleeding City: Alex Preston
The shattering novel of one man swept away in the turmoil of emotional, financial and moral boom and bust.
Charlie Wales is a young man who wants everything. Fresh from University, he's seduced by the excitement of a new life in London and all that it promises. There's Vero, the beautiful French girl who might finally fall for him. There's the lure of art, but also the promise of fast money in the City. And his friends, who are spiralling into a world of non-stop parties and unchecked greed. But as the choices begin to tear him apart, there's also the danger that all the things he desires are on the brink of crashing around him ...
This debut novel, written by a 30-year-old trader, does not merely pick over the carcass of the financial markets in the wake of the recent crash. It is also a heartbreaking love story, a withering study of the years of excess, and a timely reminder of how good people end up doing terrible things. More
Collected Novels Volume 1: Paul Auster
After years spent as a struggling translator and poet, Paul Auster published his first works of fiction in the mid 1980s - City of Glass, Ghosts and The Locked Room, ... More
The Character of Rain: Amelie Nothomb
The Japanese believe that until the age of three, children are gods, each one an okosama, or 'Lord Child'. On their third birthday they fall from grace and join the ... More
In Praise of the Stepmother: Mario Vargas Llosa
In Praise of the Stepmother is a witty and subtle meditation on the mysterious nature of human happiness and the corrupting power of innocence. More
Tokyo Year Zero: David Peace
The first part of Peace's 'Tokyo Trilogy' sees him blend fact and fiction as he explores a shattered national psyche forced to face up to its very worst fears. More
A Sweet Scent of Death: Guillermo Arriaga
The killing of a young girl in a small Mexican village ignites a powder-trail of gossip that erupts in further violence, in this suspenseful tale from the writer of the ... More
A Visible Darkness: Michael Gregorio
The gripping new thriller from the author of Critique of Criminal Reason and Days of Atonement, set amongst the amber harvests on Prussia's Baltic coast.
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A Certain Justice: P. D. James
Venetia Aldridge QC is a distinguished barrister. When she agrees to defend Garry Ashe, accused of the brutal murder of his aunt, it is one more opportunity to triumph in ... More
Israel Rank: Roy Horniman
The inspiration for Kind Hearts and Coronets, which was voted the seventh greatest British film of all time by readers of Total Film magazine in 2004. More
The Parts: Keith Ridgway
Part thriller, part comedy, part portrait of a city, The Parts shares airtime with Joe Kavanagh, radio host struggling with interference from his private life; Barry, his producer, about to ... More
The Wasted Vigil: Nadeem Aslam
Set in a modern-day Afghanistan, the dazzling new novel from Nadeem Aslam, of family secrets, forbidden love and the tragedy and consequences of war. More
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