Painter of Silence

Author	Jane Harris
ISBN	0571275168

As she sits in her Bloomsbury home, with her two birds for company, elderly Harriet Baxter sets out to relate the story of her acquaintance, nearly four decades previously, with Ned Gillespie, a talented artist who never achieved the fame she maintains he deserved.

Back in 1888, the young,...

Author	Jonathan Safran Foer
ISBN	0374280002

Some people reject the fact, overwhelmingly supported by scientists, that our planet is warming because of human activity. But do those of us who accept the reality of human-caused climate change truly believe it? If we did, surely we would be roused to act on what we know. Will future generations distinguish...

Author	Josephine Wilson
ISBN	1742588980

He hated the word 'retirement', but not as much as he hated the word 'village', as if aging made you a peasant or a fool. Herein lives the village idiot.

Professor Frederick Lothian, a retired engineer, world expert on concrete and connoisseur of modernist design, has quarantined himself from...

Author	Cynthia Ozick
ISBN	0547435576

Cynthia Ozick is one of America's literary treasures. For her sixth novel, she set herself a brilliant challenge: to retell the story of Henry James's The Ambassadors—the work he considered his best—but as a photographic negative, that is the plot is the same, the meaning is reversed. At the core...

Author	Henry James
ISBN	0140432973

Making her debut in London society, Nanda Brookenham is being groomed for the marriage market. Thrust suddenly into the superficial circle that surrounds her mother, the innocent but independent-minded young woman even finds herself in competition with Mrs Brookenham for the affection of the man...

Author	Maria McCann
ISBN	0571251781

Jonathan Dymond, a 26-year old cider-maker in post-Civil War England, has enjoyed a quiet, harmonious existence until a letter arrives from his uncle with a request to speak with his father. When his father returns from the visit the next day, all he can say is that Jonathan's uncle has died. Then Jonathan...

Author	Clare Boylan
ISBN	0143034839

When Charlotte Bront� died in 1855, she left behind twenty pages of a novel that signaled her most compelling work since Jane Eyre. One hundred fifty years later, Clare Boylan has finished Bront�'s novel, sparking a sensational literary event. With pitch-perfect tone that is utterly true to Bront�'s...

Author

Ian McEwan

That morning, Jim Sams, clever but by no means profound, woke from uneasy dreams to find himself transformed into a gigantic creature.

Jim Sams has undergone a metamorphosis. In his previous life he was ignored or loathed, but in his new incarnation he is the most powerful man in Britain –...

Author	Jonathan Coe
ISBN	0670917281

Following "The Rotters' Club "and its sequel, "The Closed Circle, "Jonathan Coe now offers his first stand-alone novel in a decade, a story of three generations of women whose destinies reach from the English countryside in World War II to London, Toronto, and southern France at the turn of the new century.
Evacuated...

Author	Katharine McMahon
ISBN	0297866036

February, 1926. These are the days leading up to The General Strike, and London is restless. Evelyn Gifford, narrator of THE CRIMSON ROOMS, has qualified as a solicitor - and is one of the first women to do so - but her life remains full of conflict. Embroiled in two new cases, the matter of a burnt letter...

Author	Andrew Michael Hurley
ISBN	1473619866

Every autumn, John Pentecost returns to the Lancashire farm where he grew up to help gather the sheep from the moors. Generally, very little changes in the Briardale Valley, but this year things are different. His grandfather - known to everyone as the Gaffer - has died and John's new wife, Katherine,...