Alfred White, a London park-keeper, rules his home with a mixture of ferocity and tenderness that has estranged his three children. When Alfred collapses on duty one day, they rush to be with him. His daughter's partner, Elroy, a black social-worker, is brought face to face with Alfred's younger son Dirk, who hates and fears all black people.
Literary black comedy with lashings of thriller. Adult children take revenge on their brutal father, but the victim crawls back ... "A wise and beautiful book about what it feels like to be alive" Zadie Smith"Fast-moving, energetic, constantly surprising" Hilary Mantel "Supremely artful" Lionel Shriver
Nominated for the 2015 Folio Prize, this sparkling, critically acclaimed novel is now available in paperback. This is a love letter to Virginia Woolf by one of Britain's best loved authors, previously shortlisted for the Orange Prize and the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.
A tale of the 21st century's Ice Age, reversing the effects of global warming and sending Europeans to the warmth of Africa, if they are to survive.
Ugandan Mary Tendo worked for many years in the white middle-class Henman household in London, cleaning for Vanessa and looking after her only child, Justin. More than ten years after Mary has left, Justin is too depressed to get out of bed. To his mother's surprise, he asks for Mary. This work confronts racism and class conflict with humour.
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