Martin Pevsner: 4 books

A homemade nut rissole stirs wartime memories. A grandfather and grandson snack at a football match. A simple meal unites two friends across continents. An unusual lunch causes a stir in the workplace. Cannibalism and poisoning, dinner dates and infidelity, the banquet of a ghost, three cups of tea....

Greg wakes up in a remote war zone, sole survivor of an air crash caused by a suicide bomber. Aman faces the disappearance of his wife and children in a family blood feud. Samira is forced to cope with the complexities of life as an asylum-seeker in the UK. Nuala must deal with the news that her husband...

“They stab me. They stab me in the heart.” Connie, from Oxford, enjoys a pleasant, middle-class childhood and fulfilling university experience. Her life is thrown into crisis after a harrowing incident while travelling in south-east Asia. On returning to Britain, she slides into mental and physical...

A woman is attacked in her home, kept hostage over a long weekend as snowbound London grinds to a halt. Her assailant, a disturbed young man, refuses to divulge his agenda, forces her to take part in a grotesque roleplay of the Desert Island Discs radio show, using this exercise in simulation to reveal...