In 18th-century France, a child is captured in the forests near Aveyron where he seems to have been living wild for seven years. Now 12 years old, the Wild Boy is put on public display as a freak, and...

A young couple abandon the urban jungle of London's East End for a remote, mountainous corner of Washington State. Chosen by Mick, who is half-American, the place seems as alien as the moon to Rita. But...

LONGLISTED FOR THE FOLIO PRIZE 2015One heart, two lives...When a teenager dies in an accident in rural Cambridgeshire, it affords Patrick, a fifty-year-old professor, drinker and womaniser, the chance...

Crime's a man's business. So they say. Who was that small figure then, slender enough to trot along the moonlit track, swift and low, virtually invisible? Who was it that covered the green signal with...

'OUR MOST CONSUMMATE HISTORICAL NOVELIST' Philip Hoare'Brilliant'Paula Hawkins'Breathtaking'Sadie Jones'Devastating'The Times'Terrific'Mail on Sunday'Chilling'Daily ExpressA dazzling, shocking novel that...

Lorsque, au milieu des années 1960, la romancière Patricia Highsmith s’installe dans un petit cottage dans le Suffolk, en Angleterre, c’est pour s’isoler et se donner le temps d’écrire, mais également...

"Pacy and atmospheric…wickedly good."—Marie Claire (UK)"Dawson's heroine is so fresh and spirited that she carries the day."—Sunday Times (London)Having already made waves in the United Kingdom, Lucky...

In December 1922 Edith Thompson, a smart, bright, lower-middle class woman who worked in a milliner's shop, was tried for conspiring with her young lover Frederick Bywaters to murder her husband, Percy....

In the summer of 1909, seventeen-year-old Nell Golightly is the new maid at the Orchard Tea Gardens in Cambridgeshire when Rupert Brooke moves in as a lodger. Famed for his looks and flouting of convention,...

When Lily Waite, young and optimistic, puts Yorkshire behind her and arrives in London with her five-year-old son, she’s mysteriously lacking in home, husband or belongings. At first she’s in at the deep...

A ten-year-old girl vanishes without trace from a Fenland village, her body never found. Thirty years on, she comes sharply back to life in the mind's eye of her childhood friend, Tina Humber, who has...

'Brilliant' Paula Hawkins, author of The Girl on the TrainIn 1964, the eccentric American novelist Patricia Highsmith is hiding out in a cottage in Suffolk, to concentrate on her writing and escape her...

Drawing on the infamous Lord Lucan affair, this compelling novel explores the roots of a shocking murder from a fresh perspective and brings to vivid life an era when women's voices all too often went...