Joyce Carey

Henry Crossley is an artist whose wife is spending a week’s holiday with her aunt. But when her aunt comes to see him, worried because her ...

Young Viscount Tony Pym wangles National Service leave on the pretext of standing as a Tory candidate for a local seat held by his family for ...

Life on a British bomber base, and the surrounding towns, from the opening days of the Battle of Britain, to the arrival of the Americans, who ...

Bertrand, an accountant employed by a large London firm, is called to the office of the Managing Director, Dreuther, to explain a mistake in the ...

In the back country of South Africa, black minister Stephen Kumalo journeys to the city to search for his missing son, only to find his people ...

Jim Ackland, who suffers from a head injury sustained in a bus crash , is the chief suspect in a murder hunt, when a girl that he has just met is ...

Three elderly residents of a nursing home, fed up with their monotonous existence, engineer an escape from their drab surroundings and head for ...

The story of the HMS Torrin, from it’s construction to its sinking in the Mediterranean during action in World War II. The ship’s ...

An English mystery novelist invites a medium to his home, so she may conduct a séance for a small gathering. The writer hopes to gather enough ...

Returning home from a shopping trip to a nearby town, bored suburban housewife Laura Jesson is thrown by happenstance into an acquaintance with ...