Steinbeck's saga of the Trasks and the Hamiltons, two families whose histories are deeply intertwined. Set in rural California at the turn of the century, it is a tale laced with adultery, murder and conflict between brother and brother,...

A chronic liar with few friends meets Professor Trefusis - academic, broadcaster, polyglot and admirer of Elvis Costello - and is led through an adventure that takes in Piccadilly rent-boys, a lost pornographic Dickens novel,...