Simon Chandler

Gertrude Bell, the most powerful woman in the British Empire in her day, shaped the destiny of Iraq after WWI in ways that still reverberate today.

Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, born in the stench of 18th century Paris, develops a superior olfactory sense, which he uses to create the ...

A young harridan MP marries a title in order to advance towards her goal of becoming party leader.

An inexplicable crack in the Pyrenees Mountains provokes excitement and scientific curiosity. As the geological fracture deepens and widens, the ...

Guy Crouchback joins the war effort during World War 2, an idealistic quest to join the forces of good in the fight against evil. But his efforts ...

The career of the once successful classical portraitist, Kingdom Swann, has hit bad times. When a leading gallery rejects his work, he seems at ...

Violet Moon wants to be in control of the circumstances and people in her life. Particularly her son and daughter-in-law who she discovers are ...

John Hurt stars as a scandal-hit member of parliament, dispatched to the political backwaters of the European Commission in Brussels as penance ...

Harry Donovan is an art forger who paints fake Rembrandt picture for $500,000. The girl he meets and gets into bed with in Paris, Marieke, turns ...

An American gets a ticket for an audience participation game in London, then gets involved in a case of mistaken identity. As an international ...

Roy Marsden returns as author P.D. James’s indefatigable gumshoe, Inspector Adam Dalgliesh. This time, he’s investigating the murder ...

A white Mercedes, the English countryside, a cathedral city, a haunted figure at the wheel with an overnight bag in the boot. Frank Summers has ...

Who has bought the house which is the home for a dozen flat dwellers? When the heating fails and a flat is violently repossessed, things begin to ...

Freelance journalist David Dunhill stumbles onto the biggest story of his career – but his personal eccentricities seem likely to thwart him.

Charles Battle has been ‘hammered’ in the London Stock Exchange, to the point where he may be bankrupted.

Traces the history of Anna who leaves school and becomes a prostitute. Three years later she becomes involved with a lecturer at college in Oxford.

Baptista has two daughters: Kate and Bianca. Everyone wants to wed the fair Bianca, but nobody’s much interested in problem child, Kate. ...

Second World War drama – A young woman decides against working in a munitions factory, and lands a post with the signals corps attempting ...

Micky is dead. Brian was his mate. Brian won’t go to school, won’t go out and he won’t talk – except to Micky.