I Am Max LammA young tennis prodigy with a wildcard to the US open, Max Lamm's future looks bright . . . until footage of him enjoying a night of passion with a Salvadorean prostitute in New York appears on the Internet, and categorically derails his career. After a bungled suicide attempt in the Hudson River, he decides to flee America and begin a new life in London. But Max is jinxed. One night, in Camden, he accidentally kills a fifteen year old Pakistani boy

But just when the tide looks to be turning in their favor

" The Athenæum

Thankfully most children will never experience the brutal reality of being forced to take part in armed conflicts

who's feeling sensitive that she's past her prime

If you thought fiction couldn't get darker than David Peace's extraordinary debut

Using life stories-from living in a hopeful-but-haggard commune of slackers to surviving the wobbly chairs and war stories of a group for recovering alcoholics

he - who had kicked down hundreds of doors - had not brought himself to knock on mine

'An Iron Rose shows just how good he is

Perishable Goods

and refuses to co-operate with family carers or medical and social work professionals

This is a Muhammad who is engaged in a struggle to establish the good society against all odds

The Queen's cousin Vogue's Lord Lichfield proved an insightful photographer of royal style along with many of Vogue's fashion photographers including Horst Norman Parkinson and David Bailey