In the Midst of Winter begins with a minor traffic accident-which becomes the catalyst for an unexpected and moving love story between two people who thought they were deep into the winter of their lives. Richard Bowmaster-a 60-year-old human rights scholar-hits the car of Evelyn Ortega-a young, undocumented immigrant from Guatemala-in the middle of a snowstorm in Brooklyn. What at first seems just a small inconvenience takes an unforeseen and far...

The unruly undergraduates at Cambridge have a nickname for their new lecturer: Wittgenstein Jr. He?s a melancholic, tormented genius who seems determined to make them grasp the very essence of philosophical thought. But Peters-a working-class student surprised to find himself among the elite-soon discovers that there?s no place for logic in a Cambridge overrun by posh boys and picnicking tourists, as England?s greatest university is collapsing under...

St Christopher's College, Cambridge, is a closed world to most. For Mariana Andros - a group therapist struggling through her private grief - it's where she met her late husband. For her niece, Zoe, it's the tragic scene of her best friend's murder. As memory and mystery entangle Mariana, she finds a society full of secrets, which has been shocked to its core by the murder of one of its own. Because behind its idyllic beauty is a web of jealousy and...