An intelligent novel about the wounds of geography and history in modern Turkey: a centenarian artist begins to reveal her suppressed past and family secrets unspool.
Set in Paris, India and Calcutta, this delightful picaresque adventure owes something to both Kim and Kidnapped. Written in bracing C18th language by a genius.
A neglected Irish girl is fostered out to her mother's sister for the summer in this perfect, understated story. Almost too short even to be called a novella. Keegan is short-listed for this... read more
When a young woman in Renaissance Italy is taken by her husband, the Duke of Ferrara, to a remote villa, she realises he intends to kill her... Richly told, by the author of Hamnet.
The history of a Jewish Hungarian family told across three centuries, beginning with the adoption of an orphaned German boy by a C18th Italian painter.
Another mysterious tale in which the gardeners of eden, who serve huge angelic birds, are threatened with turmoil when one of their number escapes over the wall.
Originally written as parts of a novel set in Trieste after WW1, which he never completed, these linked stories have not previously been published in English.