Twenty-eight-year-old Miles is haunted by guilt for havin inadvertently caused the death of his step-brother, an incident that caused him to flee New York seven years previously. Now he lives in the sprawling flatlands of Florida, photographing the last traces of families who have abandoned their houses due to debt or foreclosure during the banking crisis. When a complicated romance forces him to go on the run again, he returns to Brooklyn to confront his father and his past. 'A wonderfully unpredictable s

August Brill, an elderly book critic, lies awake in the dark, unable to sleep. Elsewhere in the house are his daughter, Miriam, and granddaughter, Katya, each with her own reasons for lying awake and watchful in the long Vermont night...

'I was twelve years old the first time I walked on water...' So begins Mr Vertigo, the story of Walt, an irrepressible orphan from the Mid-West. Under the tutelage of the mesmerising Master Yehudi, Walt is taken vack to the mysterious house on the plains, to prepare not only for the ability to fly, but also for the stardom that will accompany it. 'A class act.' -Financial Times 'A wonderful yarn.' -Cosmopolitan 'Intriguing, whimsical and moving.' -Sunday Times 'Elegant and sharply written... Bizarre, c

"Many years have now gone by, and jealousy compels me to keep her name a secret, even from my readers. But I must provide a full and truthful account of what happened." It is mid-1980s Istanbul and Master Mahmut and his apprentice use ancient methods to dig wells - they are desperate to find water in a barren land. This is the tale of their struggle, but it is also a deeper investigation - through mesmerising stories and images - into Pamuk's prevailing themes: fathers and sons, the state and individual fr

A Strangeness In My Mind is a novel Orhan Pamuk has worked on for six years. It is the story of boza seller Mevlut, the woman to whom he wrote three years' worth of love letters, and their life in Istanbul. In the four decades between 1969 and 2012, Mevlut works a number of different jobs on the streets of Istanbul, from selling yoghurt and cooked rice, to guarding a car park. He observes many different kinds of people thronging the streets, he watches most of the city get demolished and re-built, and he se

it is a perfect spring day in istanbul. Kemal, a wealthy heir, is about to become engaged to the aristocratic Sibel, when he encourıters Füsun, a beautiful shopgirl. He falls in love and finds his established world of westernized families, opulent parties, society gossip and dining-room rituals is shattered. 'Every turn in the story seems fresh, disquieting, utterly unexpected... spellbindingly told.' Washington Post 'in his patient observation of Kemal's sublime and tragic obsession Pamuk has created a wor

'A novel of profound relevance to the present moment.' The Times As the snow begins to fail, a journalist arrives İn the remote city of Kars on the Turkish border. Kars is a troubled place - there's a suicide epidemic among its young women, Islamists are poised to win the local elections, and the head of the intellisence service is o viciously effective. When the growing blizzard cuts off the outside world, the stage is set for a terrible and desperate act... ORHAN pamuk's magnîficent and bestselling new no

There are chases, dramatic escapes, episodes of cruelty, delicious food, glamorous sex, and an elegantly achieved solution to ali the mysteries. Intelligent, elliptical and beguilingly vvritten, TheJanissaryTree is a rare pleasure.' The Times SHORTLISTED FOR THE CWA ELLIS PETERS HISTORICAL CRIME AWARD AHD THE OOSS FIRST ttOVEL AWARD A fabulously rich and entertaining novel of detec-tion and conspiracy in nineteenth-century istanbul. Translated into thirty-one languages worldwide. One bloody night in 1836:

I was looking for a quiet place to die. Someone recommended Brooklyn, and so the next morning I travelled down there from Westchester to scope out the terrain ...' So begins Paul Auster's remarkable novel, "The Brooklyn Follies". Set against the backdrop of the contested US election of 2000, it tells the story of Nathan and Tom, an uncle and nephew double-act. One in remission from lung cancer, divorced, and estranged from his only daughter, the other hiding away from his once-promising academic career, and