Simon Mawer

Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, Simon Mawer’s The Glass Room brilliantly evokes six decades of Eastern European history, beginning in 1930s Czechoslovakia....

A propulsive novel of World War II espionage by the author of The Glass Room....

In the summer of 1968, the year of the Prague Spring with a Cold War winter, Oxford students James Borthwick and Eleanor Pike set out to hitchhike across Europe, complicating a budding friendship that could be something more....

The New York Times bestselling author of The Glass Room brings a slice of his own family history to life through extensive research and rich storytelling....

As Allied forces close in on Berlin in spring 1945, a solitary figure emerges from the wreckage that is Germany. It is Marian Sutro....

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....

A scroll is discovered, buried among the ancient papyri of the Dead Sea. Although fragile and crumbling, the scroll is mostly intact...

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

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

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

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....

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....