Billy's mother is dead. He knows--because he reads about it in magazines--that people die every day in ways that are more random and tragic and stupid than hers, but for nineteen-year-old Billy and his little brother, Oscar, their mother's death in a...
For decades, Nicky and Russell have kept up the friendship they began in childhood, and for decades, Russell's annual birthday celebration has reminded Nicky of how much more successful Russell is, how astronomically rich he is, and how much further ...
Mark Chadwick is cycling home, eager to get back to his family, when he sees the police calling at his house.Mark cycles on -- he knows why they're there. The secrets he has buried for twenty years are coming to confront him.Unless he can stay out ...
Luke Greenwood is in crisis.His wife of 32 years, Selena, is leaving him for a much younger man.Then local gangsters set their sights on his café and take an interest in what's left of his family....
"Sell Us the Rope is original, adept and confident, with the spry sardonic voice of the new historical fiction: it is entertaining and in the end, deeply moving." -Hilary Mantel
"A deeply satisfying novel. Incisive, inventive, ...
Mark and Karen Edwards have spent their days on the treadmill of life. Their best years behind them, they're comfortable with mid-life mediocrity. Then fate gifts them ten million excuses to reset their lives. But reset them how? When dreams come tru...