A YEAR OF LAST THINGS

ANIL'S GHOST

Brought to you by Penguin. A breath-taking novel about love and the horrors of civil war from the bestselling author of The English Patient. Anil's Ghost transports us to Sri Lanka, a country steeped in centuries of tradition, now forced into the late twentieth century by the ravages of a bloody civil war. Enter Anil Tissera, a young woman and forensic anthropologist born in Sri Lanka but educated in the West, sent by an international human rights group to identify the victims of the murder campaigns sweeping the island. When Anil discovers that the bones found in an ancient burial site are in fact those of a much more recent victim, her search for the terrible truth hidden in her homeland begins. What follows is a story about love, about family, about identity - a story driven by a riveting mystery.

DIVISADERO

Set in Northern California in the 1970s, this book tells the story of a farmer and his daughters, Anna and Claire, and the young man who works the land with them.

THE ENGLISH PATIENT

Joint Booker Prize Winner 1992. Memories of a passionate affair in Africa haunt the mysterious, badly burnt man who lies dying in a ruined Italian villa as the Second World War recedes.

WARLIGHT

London, 1945. The capital is still reeling from the war. 14-year-old Nathaniel and his older sister Rachel are abandoned by their parents, and left in the dubious care of a mysterious figure named The Moth. Years later Nathaniel, now an adult, begins to slowly piece together, using the files of intelligence agencies – and through reality, recollection and imagination – the startling truths of puzzles formed decades earlier.