Simon Mawer

In the summer of 1968, the year of Prague Spring with a Cold War winter, Oxford students James Borthwick and Eleanor Pike set out to hitchhike across Europe....

Simon Mawer's compelling and original novel puts flesh on our ancestors' bones to bring them to life and give them voice....

High on a Czechoslovak hill, the Landauer House shines as a wonder of steel and glass. This radiant 1930s house, with its unique Glass Room, quickly tarnishes as the storm clouds of World War II gather....

Marian Sutro is an outsider: the daughter of a diplomat, half French, half British, naive yet too clever for her own good....

The fabulous Chimera - mythic monster, part lion, part goat, part serpent - is more that just an Etruscan bronze discovered by archaeologist David Hewison....

Returned to an England she barely knows and a postwar world she doesn't understand, Marian searches for something on which to ground her life....

A priest experiencing a crisis of faith and the married woman to whom he is attracted. A scroll newly discovered near Jerusalem that, if authentic, could open Christianity to a complete reinterpretation. A tragic love affair unfolding in Fascist-dominated Rome during World War II. These are the...