Embers, Matt Lawrence LeachOriginally published in 1942 and now rediscovered to international acclaim, this taut and exquisitely structured novel by the Hungarian master Sandor Marai conjures the melancholy glamour of a decaying empire and the disillusioned wisdom of its last heirs.

the man she’s just robbed turns out be one of London’s most dangerous gangsters

Scarlett Clark is an exceptional English professor

lives in a 'country of her own skin'

Matrix gathers currents of violence

If only you knew then what you know now

Soon after her twenty-fifth birthday

in the darkness of the jungle

He started inauspiciously by sending Captain James Tuckey off on an ill-fated jaunt up the Congo in search of "Timbuctoo

each character picks up the melody

Patrick Melrose has the run of a magical garden

the exterior

is it any wonder that the majority of us are both overweight and undernourished