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Brian Verity was a fragile character with a horror of Huntington's disease. He married the nurse who had cared for him in hospital after the breakdown of his marriage, then noticed she was developing the same worrying signs as other members of her family. What to do?

When Gaia Champion's soufflee fails to rise, it sets off a chain of events that overthrows the settled order in 1830s Bath.

Following the death of his girlfriend in England, Michael Roberts becomes obsessed with his first teenage love in Belfast in the late 1960s, just ahead of the Troubles, and struggles to recall painful truths that he has long suppressed.

Bitter-sweet stories about cosmopolitan, self-confident women in an era just before the birth of feminism, conventional in their expectations of men, their pasts behind them but still looking for their anchor in the present, always just a step away from displacement and alienation.

A political satire, half Lewis Carroll, half traditional Daoist literature, about a modern-day Chinese schoolteacher who falls into an alcoholic sleep and dreams himself back a thousand years, rising through the ranks of the imperial civil service until he achieves the position of Prime Minister-and then finds himself stranded.

A wake-up call to the dangers that threaten the Jarawa, a group of palaeolithic tribespeople in the Andaman Islands, off the coast of India. Researched and written by the first director of the Royal African Society, Dr Jonathan Lawley, it chronicles the people's African origins, 100,000 years ago, and their vulnerability to civilisation and tourism

After befriending Germany in the 1900s, Robert Best and his brother were eagerly fighting it in the 1910s. In this extraordinary memoir, one of Britain's most important industrial designers tracks his career from the progressive idealism of his school days at Bedales to his passionate enlistment into the Royal Flying Corps just a few years later.