Graham Greene

When a leak is traced back to a small sub-section of SIS, it sparks off security checks, tensions and suspicions - the sort of atmosphere where mistakes could be made. This novel opens up the lonely, isolated, neurotic world of the Secret Service.

Graham Greene's 'long journey through time' began in 1904, when he was born into a tribe of Greenes based in Berkhamstead at the public school where his father was headmaster. In A Sort of Life Greene recalls schooldays and Oxford, adolescent encounters with psychoanalysis and Russian roulette, his marriage and conversion to Catholicism, and how he rashly resigned from The Times when his first novel, The Man Within was published in 1929. A Sort of...

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY MONICA ALIThe love affair between Maurice Bendrix and Sarah, flourishing in the turbulent times of the London Blitz, ends when she suddenly and without explanation breaks it off.

The comedians of this title are three men who meet on a ship, Brown the hotelier, Smith the innocent American and Jones the confidence man. Hiding behind their actors' masks, they each hesitate on the edge of life.

Written in 1944 but first published in 1985, The Tenth Man is set in a prison in occupied France during World War Two and concerns Lewis Chavel, a captured rich lawyer who is probably going to be shot in a German act of reprisal.

Henry Pulling, a retired bank manager, meets his Aunt Augusta. Soon she persuades him to abandon his dahlias and neighbours to travel with her through Europe's hotel society, meeting a wide variety of unusual characters.

Wormold's daughter had reached an expensive age - so he accepted a mysterious Englishman's offer of extra income. All he has to do is run agents, file reports, and spy. But his fake reports have an alarming tendency to come true.

Into the intrigue and violence of Indo-China comes Pyle, a young idealistic American sent to promote democracy through a mysterious 'Third Force'. As his naive optimism starts to cause bloodshed, his friend Fowler finds it hard to stand and watch.