In Crace's typically strange and lyrical novel, the lives of a middle-aged married couple, murdered while making love al fresco, are examined in a narrative that moves backward in time, while simultaneously the reaction of their only ...

In a powerful reimagination of Christ's forty-day fast in the wilderness, Jesus journeys to some isolated caves where he meets pilgrims, one of whom thinks that Jesus has divine qualities. Whitbread Novel of the Year. Booker Prize Fin...