The Strawberry ThiefThe compelling new novel from the author of the bestselling Chocolat. Vianne Rocher has settled down. Lansquenet sous Tannes, the place that once rejected her, has finally become her home. With Rosette, her 'special' child, she runs her chocolate shop in the square, talks to her friends on the river, is part of the community. Even Reynaud, the priest, has become a friend. But when old Narcisse, the florist, dies, leaving a parcel of land to Rosette

The Pleasures of Men reveals the dark

and has a fiendishly clever and original structuring device

On the way he encounters a tiny but powerful warrior called Cornelius

General Suten

What she discovers will connect her past and future in ways she never could have imagined - and reveal her own role in a plot that endangers not just her world

Ten years ago

this is a spectacular return of the crew from Trainspotting

daughter of his old friend Felix Leiter

England may have survived the Armada threat of 1588

set in the early 1920s

while at the same acquiring the strength to tackle his own

Words that raise our hackles