Small Pleasures, Clare Chambers1957, the suburbs of South East London. Jean Swinney is a journalist on a local paper, trapped in a life of duty and disappointment from which there is no likelihood of escape. When a young woman, Gretchen Tilbury, contacts the paper to claim that her daughter is the result of a virgin birth, it is down to Jean to discover whether she is a miracle or a fraud. As the investigation turns her quiet life inside out, Jean is suddenly given an unexpected

and there is no point in denying yourself pleasure

Aliens have attacked earth twice and almost destroyed the human species

and Sarah Dunant

told with great narrative verve

The Thousand-Dollar Tan Line will keep you guessing until the very last page

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Growing up on the moon

The hostage-taker is desperate to know what happened to his beloved son

for they think about thinking and they think about how we think about the world

The plot hinges on two love the first

Germany exercises power in order to protect the German economy and to enable it to play an influential role in the wider world

very cold enclosed space—bound