Charles Lambert

• 1997
• / General Fiction
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Life in football is precarious for the men whose jobs and reputations are perpetually balanced on a knife edge. For managers, consistent success is all important. Security is not only rare, but often illusory. So what drives them? How do they cope wi...

• Mar-2010
• / General Fiction
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These stories deal with life, love, loneliness, delusion, misunderstanding, death. Their settings range from the colonial outback in the late nineteenth century to contemporary city life. The writing is comic, dry, satirical, vivid, magical, disturbi...

• May-2010
• / General Fiction
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Andrew Caruso has been a second-hand book dealer in Rome for thirty years when a collection of thirty-year-old photographs changes his life forever. He finds the photos when clearing up the possessions of his ex-lover, Michel; the images - possibly f...

• Jan-2014
• / Political Thriller
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A psychological thriller sure to appeal to fans of William Boyd and John Le Carre...Can she trust them? Can you? Helen is in a hotel room with her lover in Rome, when a gunman murders her husband, a high-level politician, less than a mile away. He...

• Nov-2014
• / Thriller
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Sometimes you can't hide from the past. You have to fight it.

Alina Frame is about to qualify as a doctor in Rome when bureaucratic incompetence and the murder of a foreign sex-worker force her to confront her past.

As she fights to pro...

• Jan-2016
• / Thriller
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For fans of Shirley Jackson, Neil Gaiman, Roald Dahl, and Edward Gorey, a beguiling and disarming debut novel from an award-winning British author about a mysterious group of children who appear to a disfigured recluse and his country doctor -- and t...

• Oct-2017
• / General Fiction
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'There are four ways in but no way out ...'In 'Jack Squat', unemployed Gordon and his partner Omar see a money-making opportunity helping expats buy homes in southern Italy. But their scheme catches up with them after the first home they sell, curiou...

• Jan-2021
• / General Fiction
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Shortlisted for the Polari Prize 2019'A writer who never ceases to surprise' Jenny OffillMeet Jeremy, a hapless fifty-something who is scraping together a living in Paris writing soft-core pornography as 'Nathalie Cray'. When his all-but-estrang...

• Sep-2021
• / Literary
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• Sep-2021
• / General Fiction
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• Aug-2022
• / Historical
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A deliciously Gothic and atmospheric novel, one for fans of Susan Hill and Andrew Michael Hurley'A writer who never ceases to surprise' Jenny Offill, author of Weather On a November evening in Victorian London, the moneyed but lis...

• Feb-2023
• / Psychological Suspense
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A sublime psychological thriller from Polari Prize-shortlisted Charles Lambert. Sixteen-year-old Fiona inhabits a privileged world of English affluence, though her relationship with her widowed mother is strained. When she discovers an old newsp...