Robert Ryan
The Blue Noon

Paris, 1945. A manhunt is raging across the liberated city. One man is most eager to find the quarry: Airey Neave, head of Room 900, the ultra-secret M19 department. But who could have caused the normally cool British security establishment to send one of their most valuable operatives on such a mission?

Dee Williams
Pride and Joy

1934. Growing up in Rotherhithe isn't easy for sixteen-year-old Mary Harris. Her brother Eddie seemed like a normal, healthy baby. But four years on, his terrible temper and refusal to speak set him apart from other children. Mary will search far and wide to find a man whose heart is large enough to hold Eddie too.

Graham Greene
The Comedians

Three men meet on a ship bound for Haiti, a world in the grip of the corrupt 'Papa Doc' and the Tontons Macoute, his sinister secret police. Hiding behind their actors' masks, they hesitate on the edge of life. And, to begin with, they are men afraid of love, afraid of pain, afraid of fear itself.

W. Somerset Maugham
Far Eastern Tales

A collection of Maugham's short stories, all born of his experiences in Malaya, Singapore and other outposts of the former British Empire. Includes Footprints in the Jungle, Mabel, P.&0., The Door of Opportunity, The Buried Talent, Before the Party, Mr Know-All, Neil MacAdom, The End of the Flight and The Force of Circumstance.