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  • Pictures on the Wall
    Hugo Charteris
    It is 1960. Philip Ayrton, the Warden of Edgecliffe Detention Centre, a facility in Derbyshire for youth offenders, is inching slowly along in a quiet life. The small community which surrounds the centre, and his staff inside it, are his world. His wife Ella is a little dissatisfied, but puts on a brave face; his daughter Christine has escaped to Birmingham to study music; and ...
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  • The Lifeline
    Hugo Charteris
    In 1958 Tulloch Traquhair, a bearded, booming giant of a man, comes up to far northern Scotland to reopen the Strathire Arms, one of the two pubs in tiny Fluach. The pub belongs to his friend Johnny Stephenson, who is currently spending some time at Her Majesty’s pleasure.Traquhair immediately makes himself felt. Known nation-wide as Little John in a recent television serial of...
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  • Picnic at Porokorro
    Hugo Charteris
    On first publication in 1958, The Daily Telegraph's reviewer said "Hugo Charteris' Europeans are neurotic, frightened, clinging to their fragmented patterns...the sheer intensity of the whole book is terrifying." In the wilds of British West Africa, in the 1950s, as colonialism is dying, a small group of whites administer and work a diamond mine, with African help. They...
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  • Marching with April
    Hugo Charteris
    It is the early 1950s. Lionel Spote, a young London publisher, has just discovered that he has inherited a Scottish estate. He is also a rather bemused devotee of the couch – the psychiatric one. Full to the brim with misgivings and uncertainty, he arrives in the far north to discover that his newly-acquired property ‘marches’ alongside that of a formidable woman, April Gunter-...
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  • A Share of the World
    Hugo Charteris
    Selected by Evelyn Waugh as the best first novel of 1953, and phenomenally praised by critics on first publication, Hugo Charteris’ A Share of the World is one of the great lost novels. This is the first republication in a concerted programme of bringing all of Charteris’ works back into print.This harrowing story of a man lost in his times, bewildered and anguished by both war...
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