Taking ComfortWhat can you do to feel safe in a dangerous world? When Rob Saunders witnesses a young Japanese student commit suicide, he impulsively takes the folder she dropped as she threw herself under a tube train. He finds himself taking souvenirs from a series of tragic or threatening events, at the same time initiating an edgy affair with a work colleague. His behaviour becomes increasingly obsessive. The lines blur between witnessing, seeking out, and

a page-turner

an amazing debut Jeffrey Archer

Jonathan Cape first published this tale of a corrupt eighteenth-century rake

whats happening to him is just the first step in a much larger plan

an entanglement with a charming psychopath

Broken bodies

Not long after Gonzalo unexpectedly passes away

The story of the Shelleys is one of love and death

philosophical (Eleanor Catton

so his emotional and spiritual unraveling begins to accelerate

Johnson said of the acerbically comic and exuberant Albert Angelo that it was where he really discovered what he should be doing

who's been trying to find the victim for months