Most Popular Books by Paul Sayer

THE PERILS OF SANITY tells the story of Olivia Rowntree, 73, who is approaching the tenth anniversary of her husband Leonard''s death. Her GP, an old friend of Leonard''s, has referred her for counselling for which she sees no need. But privately Olivia knows that all of her lifelong certainties about love, family and God, seem to be losing their meaning. And when she reaches a critical moment in her faith in herself and humanity, salvation turns up in the unlikely form of a homeless young man. In this powerful novel, award-winning author Paul Sayer offers a rare insight into the heart and mind of a woman nearing the end of her life, calling into question every contemporary presumption about human ageing and the dying of the light.

A novel of the imagination which inhabits the twilight world of the catatonic. Winner of the Whitbread Book of the Year literary prize.

A novel that charts the progress of a fiercely passionate and devoted yet increasingly unequal relationship between two reserved and introverted people as it moves inexorably towards confrontation. By the author of "The Comforts of Madness", winner of the 1988 Whitbread Book of the Year Award.

A novel telling the true story of the life and times of Dick Turpin, 18th century highwayman, robber and murderer.

Roman.

An account of a week in the life of a disenfranchised young man, secret and not-so-secret road rager, supermarket rager, curser of the aged and the unborn alike, whose tale is threaded with a second narrative, that of Luke and Darren, whose fate may or may not be linked with his.

Harold Broome was at a low ebb when confronted by his distressed teenage niece Maisie who was in trouble and needed his help. Maisie was all for calling the police about the body, but Harold had another option: couldn''t he dispose of the corpse himself?

Whitbread prize-winner for ''The comforts of madness'' [No other information found for this title]

"Autobiografie" van een man die nooit heeft kunnen praten en door een jeugdtrauma het gebruik van zijn spieren volledig heeft verloren.

In het huwelijk van een jong echtpaar ontstaan grote spanningen.