Honeymooners Viktor and Liesel Landauer are filled with the optimism and cultural vibrancy of central Europe of the 1920s when they meet modernist architect Rainer von Abt. He builds for them a home to embody their exuberant faith in ...
New York Times bestselling author of The Glass Room Simon Mawer returns to Czechoslovakia, this time during the turbulent 1960s, with a suspenseful story of sex, politics, and betrayal. In the summer of 1968, the year of Prague Spring...
In Simon Mawer's remarkably poised and poignant novel, the small momentis as significant as the large, and 'the detail dictat[es] to the whole.' Biblical scholar Father Leo Newman has spent a lifetime deciphering meaning from evanesce...
A brilliant geneticist and the great-great-great nephew of Gregor Mendel, founder of genetics, dreams of eliminating the gene responsible for creating dwarfs like himself, while suddenly discovering the possibility of requited love. R...
From the author of the best-selling and Booker Prize–shortlisted The Glass Room and TrapezeAn historical thriller that brings back Marian Sutro, ex-Special Operations agent, and traces her romantic and political exploits in post-...
Barely out of school and doing her bit for the British war effort, Marian Sutro has one quality that makes her stand out—she is a native French speaker. It is this that attracts the attention of the SOE, the Special Operations Execu...