Kirjahaku

Stephen Ketley's life goes off the rails on the night of his tenth wedding anniversary. Suddenly, his marriage to Sarah is not quite as secure as it seems. Meanwhile, his stepdaughter Emma relies on him to mediate between her warring parents, his sister refuses to speak to him, and Audrey his mother drinks too much and shouts too loud. As his certainties fragment, Stephen recalls an idyllic summer in Florence with his first love, Giuliana. Forced to choose between career and love, authenticity and conformity, how can he make a decision when nothing is certain, least of all himself? Funny and wise, intelligent and disturbing, Take the Late Train is a memorable journey into the heart of life, love and memory. 'Canny and observant - a sharp and eloquent meditation on finding one's truth. Simply wonderful.' Ginger Bensman

Noah's Arc is about appetites out of control, loves misplaced and lives hopelessly askew. Ben runs a restaurant, Nicholas runs the world. Ann wants to help others, Vicki wants to help herself. Georgia needs to feel clean, Coral does the cleaning. Gerald needs to hold on to love, Sibella wants to be top of the tree. Fran ois wants to feel at home, Frank builds homes. Emily has lost herself, Debbie has never known herself. Larry just wants more of everything. And then there is Noah: washed-up on the shores of a life he never wanted, his mind addled by pills, the world around him going to hell in a handbasket. How can he - how can any of them - survive the coming flood? Do they want to? And what exactly is going on at the local airport? Funny and sad, sweet and sour, flippant and serious, Noah's Arc is a uniquely weird voyage.

When a patron of the arts named Serge loans him a luxurious penthouse apartment in central Paris, Howard cant believe his luck. Now he can live cheaply while he translates articles for shortlived websites and doomed art journals nobody reads. And hell have more time to devote to his inscrutable French girlfriend, Delphine, a trainee lawyer.Then, disaster strikes, in the shape of Eugene, Howards half-brother and personal nemesis, who sows chaos and discord wherever he goes. Abruptly, Howards uneventful life is plunged into mystery and farce. People are suddenly not what they seemed, and danger lurks in every restaurant. Serge himself is implicated in wrongdoing, while Giles, an Englishman abroad and seldom sober, knows more than hes prepared to tell.Farewell Olympus is about love and rivalry, ambition and morality, Armageddon and the quest for the perfect croissant. Witty, intelligent and entertaining, it will make you feel you are too, even if you have no experience of volleyball.