New York, 1945 - Sara Smythe, a young, beautiful and intelligent woman, ready to make her own way in the big city, attends her brother's Thanksgiving Eve party. As the party gets into full swing, in walks Jack Malone, a US Army journalist back from a defeated Germany and a man unlike any Sara has ever met before.

Thomas Nesbitt lives a very private life in Maine, where he is still trying to reconcile himself to the fact that his long marriage has ended. But when a package arrives on his doorstep one morning, he is forced to confront a past he has never discussed with any living person.

This thriller involves downsizing, blackmail and murder in the Manhattan business world.

Filling the void between surveys of the field with relatively light mathematical content and books with a rigorous, formal approach to stochastic integration and probabilistic ideas, Stochastic Financial Models provides a sound introduction to mathematical finance. The author takes a classical applied mathematical approach, focusing on calculations rather than seeking the greatest generality.

Developed from the esteemed author’s advanced undergraduate and graduate courses at the University of Cambridge, the text begins with the classical topics of utility and the mean-variance approach to...

'Accomplished...a strangely mesmerising effect...absolutely excellent' New StatesmanNew York, 1980sAlice Burns - a young book editor - is deep into a manuscript about the morass of family life.

'A touching exploration of passion untested by domesticity' Mail on SundayBefore Isabelle I knew nothing of sex. Before Isabelle I knew nothing of freedom. Before Isabelle I knew nothing of life. Paris in the early Seventies.