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"In 1937, the coming war is only a distant cloud on the horizon. As the various Cazalet households prepare for their summer pilgrimage to the family estate in Sussex, we meet bluff, hearty Edward, in love with but by no means faithful to his good...

Combining high comedy with vivid realism in order to reveal Farrell as one of the finest post-colonial novelists, this volume contains 'Troubles' and 'The Siege of Krishnapur'.

Singapore, 1939: life on the eve of World War II just isn't what it used to be for Walter Blackett, head of British Singapore's oldest and most powerful firm. No matter how forcefully the police break one strike, the natives go on strike somewhere...

"Jean Rhys is one of the most compelling writers of the twentieth century. Memories of her Caribbean girlhood haunt the four short and piercingly brilliant novels that Rhys wrote during her extraordinary years as an exile in 1920s Paris and later...

In a novel framed by the two general elections which returned Margaret Thatcher to power in the 1980s, a young gay man in Notting Hill pursues his own private obsession with beauty, first with a young Black clerk, then with a beautiful...