A group of teenaged schoolgirls and their teachers are in the Forest of Dean for a post-exam activity break. The girls discover that the nearby town offers all the illicit thrills of drink, drugs and sex they could possibly want. Three of them Jules, Hen and Ali react very differently to this raw new world of temptation and intimacy.

Ruby Lennox was conceived grudgingly by Bunty and born while her father, George, was in the Dog and Hare in Doncaster telling a woman in an emerald dress and a D-cup that he wasn't married. Bunty had never wanted to marry George, but here she was, stuck in a flat above the pet shop in an ancient street beneath York Minster, with sensible and sardonic Patrica aged five, greedy cross-patch Gillian who refused to be ignored, and Ruby... Ruby tells the story of The Family, from the day at the end of the nineteenth century when a travelling French photographer catches frail beautiful Alice and her children, like flowers in amber, to the startling, witty, and memorable events of Ruby's own life.

The story of Karim Amir, "an Englishman born and bred - almost", who lives with his English mother and Indian father in the South London suburbs

De levensgeschiedenissen van de Engelse schrijfster Charlotte Brontë (1816-1855), Emily Brontë (1818-1848), Anne Brontë (1820-1849) en hun broer Branwell (1817-1848).

Graham Holt is 37 and an unmarried sub-postmaster. For many years he has stood behind a reinforced screen selling stamps to the locals. But what he really wants is to adopt a son. Graham needs a son and James Lennards, aged 10, needs a father but to James, Graham is second best.

Een werkloze Ier voelt zich onbegrepen en diep ongelukkig, totdat zijn beste vriend een fish-and-chips wagen koopt en hem tot partner neemt, hetgeen tot vele komische situaties leidt.

Simon Camish, an embittered, diffident lawyer in a loveless marriage, would not have particularly noticed Rose Vassiliou had he not been asked to drive her home one night after a dinner party. Yet at one time she had been notorious-her name constantly in the news. Now, separated from her Greek husband, she lives alone with her three children. Despite all the efforts and sneers of her friends, she refuses to move from her slum house in a decaying neighborhood to which she has become attached. Gradually, Simon becomes aware that Rose is a woman of remarkable integrity and courage. He is drawn into her affairs when her husband takes legal action to reopen the question of custody of the children-a scheme for getting his wife back. And, while the precise nature of their ties eludes him, Simon comes to realize that Rose and her Greek ex-husband are forever and inextricably bound to each other.

When her ex-husband commits suicide after the failure of his anti-government activities, Liz Van Den Sandt struggles to decide whether to become involved in the South African Black nationalist movement

Deeply funny, moving, idiosyncratic and unforgettable, Pigeon English introduces a major new literary talent