With a novelist's sensitivity, David Leavitt portrays Turing in all his humanity--his eccentricities, his brilliance, his fatal candor--and elegantly explains his work and its implications.

Three novellas of escape and exile, touching and funny and at times calculatedly outrageous, by David Leavitt, "writing with subtlety, maturity and compassion about the complexity and fragility of human relationships" ("Los Angeles Times Book Review").

At the age of 18, Paul Porterfield dreams of playing piano at the world's great concert halls, yet the closest he's come has been to turn pages for his idol, Richard Kennington, a former prodigy who is entering middle age.

Leavitt's sharp novel is a multilayered dissection of literary and sexual mores in the get-ahead 80s. Talented freshman Martin Bauman, 19, wins a place under the tutelage of the legendary Stanley Flint, a man who makes or breaks careers with the flick of a weary hand.

Based on the remarkable true story of G. H. Hardy and Srinivasa Ramanujan, and populated with such luminaries such as D. H. Lawrence, Bertrand Russell, and Ludwig Wittgenstein, The Indian Clerk takes this extraordinary slice of history and transforms it into an emotional and spellbinding story about the fragility of human connection and our need to find order in the world. A literary masterpiece, it appeared on four bestseller lists, including the Los Angeles Times, and received dazzling reviews from every major publication in the country.

A taut and subtle historical novel of two couples caught up in a world at war, from the acclaimed author of The Indian Clerk. If you think of Irène Némirovskys Suite Française reimagined by Alan Hollinghurst, you get the picture It is never quite what it seems and never fails to intrigue The Times