A story wherein different characters are not happy with the way things are going on in their lives. They are waiting for something to change their lives. Will these characters able to realise the happiness they have been waiting for?

This is an anthology of poems, chosen by well-known names from the worlds of theatre, literature and film in response to the Afghan crisis. The poems range from Auden to Shakespeare, Brecht to Harry Secombe.

Winkler is bored and full of the misery of his age. But in a sick world, at the end of history, it might just be that Winkler is the hero. A chance encounter with an elderly Polish Jew fills Winkler's head with a passion to act. But soon, he is humiliated at a village cricket match, suffers racial abuse, and is arrested for a terrible crime.

In 1905, Jacob is apprenticed to Herbert, who photographs the seances of the Theosophical Society. Among the members of the society is Leadbetter, who also employs Burrows for altogether more sinister. Intrigued by the possibilities of photography, Leadbetter secretly uses children in experiments to capture the soul on film as it leaves the body.

A collection of stories about love - between parents and children; white people and Indians; movie stars and ordinary people. The stories tell of Indians - upper and middle class, professional and white-collar workers, bureaucrats and poets.

Fanny Burney (1752-1840) is best known as the author of Evelina , one of the most engaging novels of the eighteenth century. But for much of her long life, she was also an incomparable diarist, witnessing both the madness of George III and the young Queen Victoria's coronation. This biography paints a portrait of the woman of great talent.

Born in Carlisle in 1887, brought up in a children's home and by reluctant relatives, Evie, with her wild hair and unassuming ways, seems a quiet, undemanding child. Shona, born almost seventy years later, is headstrong and striking. But there are, as she discovers, unanswered questions about her past. The two girls have only one thing in common.

The lotus is the world's most iconic flower. This book shows how the deep crimson of the lotus runs like a tracer dye, tracking the spread, fusion and fission of the world's great civilizations.

Golden Richards is a normal dad. But with four wives and twenty eight children there just isn't enough of him to go around. Unbeknownst to his wives, Golden has taken a construction job on a Nevada brothel. Lying to cover his tracks, beset by familial rivalry on all sides, he seeks relief in the arms of his boss' wife.

More than 400 years ago, seven people - five of them women - were beheaded in the Tower of London. Three had been queens of England. The others were found guilty of treason. Why were such important people put to death? This book tells their stories.

Jack and Joy Griffin are back on Cape Cod - where they spent their hope-filled honeymoon - for a wedding. Cracks are beginning to show in Jack's peaceful family life and thirty-four year marriage. He's spent a lifetime trying to be happier than his parents, but has he succeeded?

Set in the Moscow Hill district of San Francisco, this novel introduces a disparate concoction of characters and their dogs who meet most days in a park. They pour out their hearts to total strangers and one another and inevitably become like their dogs.

This is the history of central Europe seen from the other side of the Iron Curtain. It is also the history of three generations of Monika Maron's own family.

As a child Lucas assumed that all children who'd lost their parents lived on water. Now a young man, and still sharing the West London narrow boat with his down-to-earth sister Denise, he investigates the contents of an old wardrobe, in which he finds relics from the Midnight Ballet, a dance company founded by his Jamaican father, Antoney Matheus.

Alms for Oblivion is a series of ten novels, all telling separate stories but at the same time linked together by the characters they have in common: soldiers and dons, men of business, politicians and writers. They are a scathing chronicle of the upper echelons of postwar English society.