ANY HUMAN FACE

Fiction (Literary Fiction) 323 pages

Picador - March 2010

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THE SCENT OF CINNAMON

Fiction (Literary Fiction) 304 pages

Salt Publishing Ltd - October 15, 2008

These stories deal with life, love, loneliness, delusion, misunderstanding, death. Their settings range from the colonial outback in the late nineteenth century to contemporary city life. The writing is comic, dry, satirical, vivid, magical, disturbing, poignant, spare. They describe the world as it is, and as it might be.

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LITTLE MONSTERS

Fiction (Literary Fiction) 287 pages

Picador - February 2008

Longlisted for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2010.

‘Sharp like sherbet, poignant and gripping.' -- Griff Rhys Jones

‘Beautifully written and crafted, and more compelling than many thrillers.’ -- John Harding, Daily Mail

‘With exquisitely tender writing and quiet authority, a powerful debut.’ -- Jill Dawson

‘A haunting novel.’ -- Kerry Fowler, Good Housekeeping

‘When I was thirteen, my father killed my mother’ - throws the reader straight into Carol Foxe’s world, in which to survive is to find a way to be invisible. Charles Lambert deftly and delicately captures the emotions of a damaged teenage girl in post World War II England, and the woman she becomes. Through the lens of her obsession with a young Kurdish refugee girl, in whom she sees her younger self, a fractured century is exposed, questions of flight and refuge explored. A haunting literary debut.

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