The Deadly Space BetweenToby Hawk is a solitary boy in a family of Amazons. His mother, only fifteen years older than him, is a painter on the brink of commercial success. His great aunt is a wealthy textile designer; her partner, Liberty, a barrister. Meanwhile, eighteen year old Toby's world remains a small, closed round of school, domesticity and surfing the Net at night. But everything changes when his mother takes up with a fascinating but enigmatic scientist, Roehm.

In Pylon Faulkner set out to test their rootless modernity to see if there is any place in it for the old values of the human heart that are the central concerns of his best fiction

and turns the readers expectations upside down again and again

Kinsey's never been one for personal possessions

Yet it seems the public is tiring of him at last

Before long

genuinely modern in the heroic

Brought to the attention of the Serious Crime Unit of Scotland Yard

You wouldn't notice him in a Nairobi street - except

a lowly maid from an English estate with a striking resemblance to French royalty

HMS Gladiator was part of that war

The Coast of Utopia is an epic but also intimate drama of romantics and revolutionaries in an age of emperors

even the new steamships of the Royal Navy are powerless to catch the swift brigs of the slavers