Dandy Gilver & an Unsuitable Day For A MurderFriday 3rd June, 1927 Dear Alec, 'Careful what you wish for, lest it come true' is my new motto, and here is why. I was summoned to Dunfermline, that old grey town, in the matter of a missing heiress. She had flounced off in a sulk over forbidden love and I, suspecting elopement, was loath to take the job of scouring guesthouses to find the little madam and her paramour. Before I could wriggle out of it, though, there was a murder in the mix or was it

These three brilliant screenplays are uniquely accessible cameos of modern fiction as they move from the reassuring naturalism of our most familiar medium to the harrowing ambiguities of McEwan's uncompromising vision of reality

Children of Men and The Murder Room

ne Nmirovsky shot to fame in France with the publication of her second novelDavid Golder

and he lived in a household that crouched in terror of his iron-willed grandmother

but Jack cannot accept the view that his death was either accidental or suicide

Now Hedda Wolfe

Charles Bock mixes incandescent prose with devious humour to capture Las Vegas with unprecedented scope and nuance and to provide a glimpse into a microcosm of modern America

and then destroys him

six hundred years ago

she comes to realise that she's losing her grip and can no longer safely navigate her world

The Sister

if men have faith