General

Identical twins, Georgia and Bessi Hunter, live in the loft of 26 Waifer Avenue in Neasden. This novel watches the Hunter family as they make their way through the 1980s. Some family members having more success than others.

Will does not want children, but he does see the point of single mothers, especially if they look like Julie Christie. When he meets Marcus, whose parents have split up and who is being persecuted by bullies, Will finds that he has a lot to learn.

When journalist Jasmin Field lands the coveted role of Elizabeth Bennet in a one-off fundraising adaptation of 'Pride and Prejudice', she discovers that the play's director, Hollywood heart-throb Harry Noble, is every bit as obnoxious as she could have hoped. Which means a lot of material for her...

Charlotte Arkendale is a matchmaker in reverse, so when her new man-of-affairs starts work with a view to helping her steer women away from unsuitable suitors, she is totally unprepared for his advances and ignorant of the danger they are both in.

'The Amnesia Clinic' is a powerful novel set in Quito, Ecuador. Anti, a quiet English boy, strikes up a friendship with flamboyant local classmate Fabi.ư̐an. Fabi.ư̐an is everything Anti isn't: handsome, athletic and popular. Fabi.ư̐an's Uncle Suarez infects the boys with his passion for outlandi...

Maggie Walsh has always done everything right. Sensibly. By the book. Until the day she leaves her husband and runs away to Hollywood, that is.

Yannis is editing his father's autobiography. Going through the family archives, he discovers the manuscript of an aspiring novelist named Loukas Matthaiou. Following in the tracks of this elusive stranger, Yannis' life takes an unforeseen turn.

This is an evocation of the woman who married Chairman Mao and fought to succeed him. The unwanted daughter of a concubine, she refused to have her feet bound, ran away to join an opera troupe and eventually met Mao Zedong in the mountains of Yenan.

In this tale of two Muslim sisters, Monica Ali explores how they live out their own personal tragedies. One lives in a tower block in London's East End whilst the other lives in a Bangladeshi village.

The action of 'The Cambridge Curry Club' unfolds over just nine hours in a single day, during which the four women - three Indian and one Irish - working in Cambridge's 'IndiaNeed' charity shop - battle to cope with the day's unpredictable events, as well as their overbearing employer.