'Mr Rosenblum's List ' by Natasha Solomons

Jack Rosenblum is five foot three and a half inches of sheer tenacity. Through study and application he intends to become a Very English Gentleman. Jack is compiling a list, a comprehensive guide to the manners, customs and habits of his new home. And he never speaks German, apart from the occasional curse. Assimilation, he's convinced, is the secret of success.But the war's been over for eight years and despite his best efforts, his bid to blend...  More details.

'The Pregnant Widow' by Martin Amis

It was summer 1970 - a long, hot summer. In a castle in Italy, half a dozen young lives are afloat on the sea of change, trapped inside the history of the sexual revolution. The girls are acting like boys, and the boys are going on acting like boys, and Keith Nearing - twenty years old, a literature student all clogged up with the English novel - is struggling to twist feminism and the rise of women towards his own ends. The sexual revolution may...  More details.

'The Unnamed' by Joshua Ferris

What do you do if you can’t stop walking? If your legs urge you through freezing temperatures, sometimes without shoes, often over miles of territory? If your wife has to pick you up in strange places when you collapse with exhaustion after a walk? If your daughter thinks you’re insane?
Tim Farnsworth is a handsome, healthy man, ageing with the grace of a matinée idol. He loves his work. He loves his family. He loves his kitchen. And then one...  More details.