The story of six young men crossing the Pacific on a balsa wood raft makes an 'incredible adventure which happens to be true, and a book whose sales are reconed in millions

Vikram Seth's novel is, at it's core, a love story - the story of a young girl's search for the man she will marry. We meet Lata and her family; her gentle sister Savita, just married herself to the suitable if dark-skinned Pran; her widowed mother Mrs Rupa Mehra, fussy, loving, in a permanent state of grief and feverish activity; as well as a whole array of inlaws and outlaws, the aristocratic Khans, the urbane Chatterjis, and the provincial Kapoors.
Three suitors present themselves. Only one of the can win Lata's hand - by love or by maternal persuasion.

Archeologist Leo Mallory is on a dig. But this is no ordinary assignment. He's deep in the heart of the Mexican jungle uncovering a centuries old Mayan city. Like a surgeon performing an intricate operation, Leo and his team skilfully remove each crumb of earth with the utmost precision.
In France, Interpol's Declan Carberry is busy trying to solve a string of ritual serial murders. Horrific in the extreme, the questions are who and why? Declan needs to move fast, for time is running out.
Delving into the history of the conquistadors and the Maya of South America, this vertiginous tale of snaring and netting, old rituals and modern codes, blood-letting and immortality is Easterman at his dizzying best.

His masterly account of a cruel flight from invasion.
Paterson, manager of a small rice mill, organizes the evacuation of a small English community when Japanese forces invade Burma. Paterson takes with him his Burmese mistress and her young brother. The rest of the party take along their prejudices, their pettiness and their squabbles, aand a small enclave of English insularity moves north through Burma.
Swiftly and inevitably the journey becomes a tragic working out of tension and insoluble conflict.

The Japanese Fleet, and the Australian destroyer 'Wind Rode', astern, moved on into the eye of the wind. And then Bentley could see, as the sky lightened, that the mass ahead of him was not an indeterminate bulk, but a Jap battleship. He lowered his glasses and he breathed in slowly and deeply to steady himself. Then he said, deliberately:
"Increase to two-five-oh revolutions. Starb'd twenty, steer 180.
"Stand-by torpedo attack"

Can love survive the dangers of occupied France?

Includes three long elegiac stories and two short ones featuring an 'irresistible' female eccentric, the jealous relationship between a mother and daughter and the success of a sluttish Delilah in robbing a middle-aged woodcutter of both his hoarded wealth and his inner serenity.

Vincent Majestyk had had enough - enough fighting, enough war, enough death. He knew too well the feel of the recoil, the smell of gunpowder, the sight of a human target falling. So when he took off his uniform and became a civilian, he swore that he would never kill again. Majestyk was content with himself and the world, and no one knew about his past. He looked like an easy mark. That's why the Mob thought they could tell him who to hire, why a bullying cop thought he could be pushed around, and why a beautiful woman told him to run. No one realised that even a peace loving man had his limits. Mr Majestyk had been pushed to his - and the killer within him awoke, prepared to go to war again.

Spirited, independent and in her late twenties, Miss Annis Wychwood held herself to be past the age for falling in love. Befriending a pretty runaway heiress brings unexpected consequences, among them the very conflicting emotions aroused by her encounter with the wayward girl's guardian, Mr Oliver Carleton, who was quite the rudest man Annis had ever met....

When Gervase Frant, Seventh Earl of St Erth, returns at last from Waterloo to his family seat at Stanyon, he enjoys a less than welcome homecoming. Only Theo, a cousin even quieter than himself, is there to greet him - and when he meets his stepmother and younger half-brother he detects open regret that he has survived the wars. The dangers of the Lincolnshire countryside could never be more unexpected...