Bloomsbury

Following his star turn in I am a Tree Tim is back for more comic fun. This time he’s spending half term cleaning cars, and screaming toddlers have taken over his home. He’s not happy. Luckily his friend Flora is on hand to help out and have a joke with. Things start to look up. Until, that is, they encounter a very angry customer and a...

When two young women, Lily and Ida, meet on a flight to America they embark on a relationship that is to see them through two very different marriages and is to bring them comfort and distress, joy and tragedy, in equal measure as the years unfold....

Martha Kowalski is a quick-witted girl stuck in a bad situation. She146;s just moved to the slums of Cleveland with an alcoholic mother and Momma146;s new gun-loving, redneck boyfriend. Yes, there are pockets of goodness in her new life--a friend at school, a boy who lives upstairs, and cello lessons--but every day is filled with abuse from the...

An exploration of love, lust and betrayal. The central character is Diana Soren, an elegy for a decade that refused to die. She is a predator set on self-destruction, and a casualty of her own times and beauty. Carlos Fuentes is the author of "e;Terra Nostra"e; and "e;Old Gringo"e;....

When this novel’s eager protagonist, Jerry Chiffon, dressed in a red ladies’ suit and carrying a fake Chanel purse, tries to assassinate a right-wing United States senator in Branch Creek, North Carolina, he succeeds in putting the tiny town on the national map. Have You Heard introduces a host of inimitable characters with endearing...

Calcutta's Pavement DoctorIn the backstreets of Calcutta, shielded from the scorching sun by a tattered tarpaulin, mothers clutching semi-conscious, emaciated babies, and adults and children with missing or gangrenous limbs or suffering from tuberculosis or leprosy, queue in their hundreds to see Dr Jack Preger. On a stretch of pavement...