Linn Ullmann explores the emotional terrain of marriage and motherhood with a wicked humour and a tender eye for human frailty. Before You Sleep is a marvellously accomplished and assured debut, already an international bestseller. In this witty, Borges-like fiction, A S Byatt weaves a dazzling fiction out of one man s search for fact. Phineas G sets out to write a biography of a great biographer. But a whole life is hard to find.
Trails run cold and mysteries are unresolved.
Tantalising, comic and rueful, The Biographer s Tale is a modern delight, a colour-filled novel of detection and desire. Blonde is an epic American story of how a fragile, gifted young woman makes and remakes her identity. Blonde is a brilliant and deeply moving portrait of a culture hypnotised by its own myths and the shattering reality of the effects it had on the woman who became Marilyn Monroe. Julia Garnet is a teacher. Its beauty, its secret corners and treasures, and its people overwhelm a lifetime of reserve and caution.