Andrew Burt

Over one hundred years ago in Sardinia a young man was accused of theft and murder, and found guilty in absentia. To the courts and police this was an open and shut case, but the advocate wanted to test the evidence against the facts. To do this his only recourse was to set a trap of his own!

Set in tranquil Umbria, Italy, a story of betrayal and gain amongst people with their own reasons for settling in the neighbourhood.

The stories in this collection deal with the psychological aspects of love - love given and withheld, love craved and lost, and love met and disappointed. Psychologically acute, sharply written in lucid and witty prose, these stories, set in Venice, Greece and Rome, take us into the complex geography of the human heart.

In the midst of Mao's cultural revolution, two boys are sent to 're-education' camps and have to rely on each other and the daughter of a local tailor to keep going. Their lives are changed when they find a suitcase packed with Western novels, and after listening to the stories of Balzac so is the little seamstress.

Caught up in the War of the Roses young Dick Shelton is torn between a guardian who betrays him and the leader of the secret fellowship known as The Black Arrow. In order to survive he must confront the tests of war, shipwreck, murder and forbidden love.

Simon has come to London to study painting with Dr Field, but Dr Field has disappeared. As Simon tries to find him he discovers a fiendish plot.

Set in the small provincial towns between Leipzig and Berlin at the end of the eighteenth century, young and brilliant graduate, Fritz von Hardenburg needs his father's permission to announce his engagement to twelve-year-old Sophie von Kühn. It is a betrothal which amuses, astounds and disturbs his family and friends.

Freddie Montgomery is a gentleman first and a murderer second. He committed two crimes - he stole a painting from a wealthy family friend and he killed a chambermaid who caught him in the act. Here he tells his story.

When Robert Kincaid drives through the heat and dust of an Iowa summer and turns into Francesca Johnson's farm lane looking for directions, the world-class photographer and the Iowa farm wife are joined in an experience that will haunt them forever.

Packed off to boarding school and bullied by his peers, Felix Brooke feels sad and trapped. Although he has a home in England, his heart lies in Spain, so he runs away, but is shipwrecked off the French coast.

Set in Germany during the Nazi regime and tells of the persecution of Jews in the 1930s and '40s.

The stories of the driver, conductor and passengers of a private bus on it's journey between Dehli and Phansa.

Set for the most part in London, Cornwall and the South Coast, the stories included in this collection are proof that one of the great masters of the short story is still, in his late eighties, at the height of his powers; and one of them, "Cocky Olly" - the story of two runaway children - is widely considered to be among the very best he has written.

In 1942 Charlotte Grey conceives a passion for an English airman. When he goes missing she travels to France on an errand to help the Resistance and to seek news of the airman. Some explicit sexual content.

Stephen Lewis,a successful author of children's books, takes his three-year-old daughter on a routine Saturday morning trip to the supermarket. While queueing at the checkout, his attention is distracted and the little girl is kidnapped. Lewis spirals into a grief which affects every aspect of his life.

A compelling story of human suffering and a comedy of deception told by a painter.

An architect occupied with constructing a new future for London's Dockland comes to terms with his own destiny.

Set against a background of racial injustice in South Africa, this is the story of humble Zulu pastor Stephen Kumalo whose son, Absolom is involved in the murder of a white man.

For Dirk Pitt, the witnessing of an airship disaster sets in motion the most nail-biting events of his career. When he finds his trail leading to fabulous treasure beneath the sea he knows he is on to something special. Or is he?

A collection of the unique writings of Christy Nolan, who has never been able to speak or control his movements. His remarkable talent was only released when he was introduced to a muscular relaxant drug which has given him sufficient control to compose with a processor, manipulated by a 'unicorn' stick attached to his head.

Three tales of genius in which Thomas Mann explores the artist's relations to life; includes 'TRISTAN' and 'TONIO KROGER'.

1999 Man Booker Prize Winner: David Lurie is a scholar who falls into disgrace. He moves to the country to live with his daughter, but as the countryside experiences violence, their relationship disintegrates.

Five short stories from a celebrated writer, exploring deep fears, longings, secrets and desires.

1st book in the Hillsden Series. Caroline Oates was little more than a vegetable after suffering at the hands of KGB torturers ten years previously, so there is shock when she is murdered. Her ex-lover, Alex Hillsden sets out to discover the answer.

A beautiful collection of short stories from a master-storyteller. The stories are all set on the vast continent of Australia.

This is the chilling story of a small boy caught up in the games that adults play. Left in the care of the butler and his wife whilst his parents go on a fortnight's holiday, Philip realises too late the danger of lies and deceit. But the truth is even deadlier.

A magical novel of a young African boy's adventures through a spirit world of heroes and villains. Man Booker Prize Winner.

Farmer Giles of Ham did not look like a hero. He was fat and red-bearded and enjoyed a slow, comfortable life. Then one day a rather deaf and short-sighted giant blundered on to his land. More by luck than skill, Farmer Giles managed to scare him away. The people of the village cheered: Farmer Giles was a hero. His reputation spread far and wide across the kingdom. So when the dragon Chrysophylax visited the area it was Farmer Giles who was expected to do battle with it!

Sunday Express Book of the Year. Whitbread Winner. Felicia's journey across the Irish Sea in search of a friend leads her into a dark and unforgiving landscape. Whitbread Book of the Year Winner.

This is the story of Carlo Weisz and a handful of antifascists. They are the army officer who fights for a lost cause in Spain, the shrewd leader of a resistance group in Paris, and the woman who becomes the love of Weisz's life, herself involved in a doomed resistance underground in Berlin.

Marion Sharpe and her mother have their peaceful lives turned upside-down when a young woman turns up on their doorstep with a policeman and accuses them of kidnap and abuse. Something in her story doesn't ring true, but it takes solicitor turned amateur detective, Robert Blair, to solve the mystery.

Commissario Brunetti is plunged into a world of corruption and intrigue when he investigates the death of a young bureaucrat in the Venetian planning department.  Book 9 of series.

A member of a remote Burmese tribe, as a student the author was forced to flee into the jungle with the rise of the Burmese miltary dictatorship. He became a guerilla fighter along with other students.A chance meeting with a Cambridge don changed his life forever.

When Commissario Brunetti and Ispettore Vianello answer a 911 call they find a dead girl floating in the canal. Amazingly no-one has reported a missing child. Brunetti is drawn into a search for her identity, her family and the cause of her death, taking him from the canals and palazzos of Venice to a gypsy encampment on the mainland.  Book 17 of series.

Adam Swann is now an old man and at the start of the Edwardian era the motor engine starts to take over from horses, which has a huge effect on 'Swann-on-wheels'.  Book 3 of series.

Tired of living in Spain with his grandfather and unfriendly great-aunt, Felix gets on his mule one day and sets out to find a place which he thinks is called Bath.