Kate Atkinson
Case Histories

Cambridge is sweltering, during an unusually hot summer. To Jack Brodie, former police inspector turned investigator, the world consists of one accounting sheet - Lost on the left, Found on the right - and the two never seem to balance. His days are full of people clamouring for answers and explanations. A jealous husband suspects his wife. Two spinster sisters make a shocking find. A solicitor investigates an old murder . . . Ingeniously plotted, full of suspense and heartbreak, Case Histories is a feat of bravura storytelling that conveys the mysteries of life, its inanities and its hilarities. A

" A triumphant new novel from Kate Atkinson, prize-winning author of Behind the Scenes at the Museum. A breathtaking story of families divided, love lost and found and the mysteries of fate.

Michael Cunningham
A Home At The End Of The World

This is the story of two boyhood friends: Jonathan, lonely and introspective; and Bobby, hip and inarticulate. When Bobby moves in with Jonathan and his room-mate, Clare - a veteran of the city's erotic wars - Bobby and Clare fall in love, scuttling the plans of Jonathan, who is gay, to father Clare's child. Then, when Clare and Bobby have a baby, the three move to a small house in upstate New York to raise 'their' child together and create a new kind of family. This. is a novel which masterfully depicts the charged, fragile relationships of urban life today.

'Michael Cunningham has written a novel that all but reads itself. The story of Jonathan, Clare, Bobby and Alice is also the story of the seventies and eighties in America - and vice versa. It is destined to last'- Washington Post

Lindsey Davis
The Accusers

Fresh from his trip to Britain, Falco needs to re-establish his presence in Rome. A minor role in the trial of a senator entangles him in the machinations of Silius Italicus and Paccius Africanus - two real-life lawyers at the top of their trade. These notorious ex-consuls play a dangerous game, where success brings rich pickings but a mistrial or a wrong verdict entails huge financial penalties. The senator is convicted but then dies, apparently by suicide. It may be a legal move to protect his heirs, but Silius hires Falco and his young associates to prove it was murder....

" Lindsey Davis' fifteenth novel in the bestselling Marcus Didius Falco series is a tale of corruption, informers and the Roman courts of law.