The SpellAlan Hollinghurst's new novel is a comedy of sexual manners that follows the interlocking affairs of four men: Robin Woodfield, an architect in his late forties, who is trying to build an idyllic life in Dorset with his younger lover, Justin, a would be actor increasingly disenchanted with the countryside; Robin's 22 year old son Danny, a volatile beauty who lives for clubbing and casual sex; and the shy Alex, whose life is transformed by house music

Anna Van Heerden

haunting and deeply moving

The Benthams have been married for nearly 25 years

in an asylum

And it is here that he will find a powerful relic

has grand ambitions: to take for herself the throne of isle

Combining the plotting of Robert Ludlum

From the author of THE SEVENTH SCROLL

a week's peaceful convalescence in one of Dorset's most beautiful manor houses and the beginning of a new life

Richard 'Lord' Grant - my father - who managed to destroy his own career

born of the Dark itself

pounding the turf in the heat of a steeplechase