Al is an ‘interloper’: breaking, entering and squatting properties while their rich owners are away. He teams up with three others and has to turn detective when a home owner is murdered. Ingenious and enjoyable.
Stylish detective story set in a French town where Chief Inspector Georges Gorski investigates the sudden, and suspicious, death of a prominent local manufacturer. A darkly funny tale of corruption, bribery, passion and malice.
The Brown family and close friend Annemarie suffer a bereavement which leaves each one of them struggling for stability and direction. Somehow, teenager Ali, forced to confront the reality of adult life, steers them through the ensuing year. A deeply moving story of the changes wrought by adversity.
A woman suffering from a creative block embarks on a road trip across America, but ends up finding inspiration closer to home than expected. A raunchy, subversive, funny novel about midlife and the different forms family can take.
Jay, once a promising artist but now a van driver, finds himself delivering groceries to a successful former lover from his art school days. An insightful portrait of the creative impulse and the rapacious demands of the art world.
Jay, once a promising artist but now a van driver, finds himself delivering groceries to a successful former lover from his art school days. An insightful portrait of the creative impulse and the rapacious demands of the art world.
A fictionalised account of Eric Blair’s service in the Burmese colonial police, an experience which changed him from a schoolboy into a writer embittered by his experience of colonialism, and ready to reinvent himself as George Orwell.