‘Thought-provoking, harrowing
and lingers long in the mind’
Mail on Sunday

In the twilight years of his life, Janardhanan Pillai wants little more than to pass his days in peace. But on the day a stranger comes knocking, a writer asking questions that Pillai has long avoided answering, he discovers that his peace is merely a mirage, a figment of his imagination sprung from the intense dust and heat of the Indian south. Pillai’s past suddenly looms large and his only hope of laying old ghosts to rest is to tell the story that the writer came in search of – what became...

Get ready for the paperback publication of 
last year's big holiday hardback -  The Dinner.  

Now it's exactly the right size to fit in your beachbag,
it's all set to be the summer hit of 2013 as well ! 

Find out more about The Dinner, read reviews, Q&As, and more in THE DINNER BLOG TOUR starting on 25 April - click on the logos below:

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Launching in Ambassadorial splendour this week - Before I Burn by  Gaute Heivoll,  the foremost Norwegian writer of his generation.  Read this extract from his astonishing new novel, published in translation by Atlantic on 1 April.

In the late 1970s, a pyromaniac runs amok in a close-knit community in rural Norway. Homes are burnt to a cinder, and panic spreads, as neighbours wonder who amongst them could be wreaking such fear and anguish. And slowly, almost...

 Helen Schulman Author of This Beautiful Life 

 TELLS US WHY HER STORY IS PARTICULARLY RELEVANT TODAY...

The Last Crusade - Shortlisted for the English Pen Hessell-Tiltman Prize
Read this Q&A with the author, Nigel Cliff

In 1498 a young captain sailed from Portugal, circumnavigated Africa, crossed the Indian Ocean, and discovered the sea route to the Indies, opening up access to the fabled wealth of the East.

It was the longest voyage known to history; the ships were pushed to their limits, their crews were racked by storms and devastated by disease....

January - a month of fleeting days and long, cold nights; a time to hunker down and huddle by the fire with new resolutions and old regrets. What better time to give yourself over to the dark past and travel back to the London of 1862, to a city of over three million souls, of stinking fog and narrow, winding streets?

Through these streets walks the poet Christina Rossetti, haunted and tormented by the ghost of her uncle, John Polidori. Without him, she cannot write, but her...