The Orchard Keeper by Cormac McCarthy

The Orchard Keeper by Cormac McCarthySet in rural Tennessee between the world wars, The Orchard Keeper is the unique, darkly biblical debut novel from the legendary author of Blood Meridian and The Road, Cormac McCarthy.'McCarthy has the best kind of Southern style' New York TimesJohn Wesley Rattner is a young boy when his father is murdered. Marion Sylder, an outlaw and bootlegger, strangled him to death. By chance, John and Marion will meet. They will not recognize each other; John

Helen of Troy

Rin meets difficult challenges – and unexpected opportunities

and cut Ellen off from a community in which she had come to feel truly at home

you may well find yourself reading it in one sitting

For a thousand years

It describes his entry into MI5 and the rise of the Iron Curtain

Her readers had found in her an alternative model of older life: someone who defied stereotypes

as good as anything Miss Christie has done

' 5* Reader Review'The beautiful descriptions of Shetland life

Based at a studio in North London

But when - like Vi's parents - your mum is ex-secret service and your dad is a retired bad guy

But he isn’t the person she thinks he is