‘This is an outstanding read, the juxtaposition of war zone and luxury hotel creates such powerful images. I loved the tension that Sunny Singh generated each time Sam left the safety of her room it had me frantically flicking the pages urging her to get her back to safety… A gripping, thoughtful read and one
‘An elegantly plotted, psychologically subtle and almost unbearably exciting thriller’
Tablet Magazine reviews Hotel Arcadia by Sunny Singh. Get your copy here today.
‘The donkey is adorable, and the book certainly does tug the reader along’
The Week lists The White Umbrella by Brian Sewell as ‘Novel of the Week’. It’s a fantastic title for children and adults alike. Get your copy of the book here today!
‘The book’s great strength is the plurality of the title’s Invisible Threads. These allude to the marital bond that pulls Sara along in her quest to discover how her husband died, and also to her links with the abused women of India she tries to help on the way … Beresford’s novel is both enjoyable
In about 2003, my boyfriend at the time suddenly boasted to me: ‘My name is one of only two Englishmen’s names that have four syllables.’
‘Don’t be ridiculous!’ (I admit, in hindsight), I rather snottily replied, ‘There are heaps of them!’
And I began to reel them off, finishing with the claim that I could
‘The puff around the award of this year’s Man Booker International Prize announced, with great flourish, at the V&A Museum was in marked contrast to the almost universal silence which greeted Quartet’s publication of the author’s masterpiece, The Melancholy of Resistance, in 1998, when we published the first English translation of this remarkable Hungarian writer’
It’s not every day a book is launched in a caravan camp on the Kent coast but that is what happened last Friday at the launch of Val Hennessy’s Not Far from Dreamland. The party bopped till lights out at 10.30 and this very funny novel was well and truly launched. The photographs
‘The excellence of this novel is its canny synthesis of elements: the essential thriller plot (at times reminiscent of the most powerful writing of Graham Greene; no mean feat in itself) and the careful accretion of character detail in which the principals force us to decide that our initial impressions of them may not be
Two Quartet authors are at Hay Festival today!
Jane Haynes and Martin Scurr discussed Doctors Dissected with Kate Wood at the Hay Literary Festival this morning. See here for full event details.
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