Charles Lambert Books

Exploring themes of life, love, and loneliness, the stories traverse a wide range of settings, from the colonial outback of the late nineteenth century to modern urban landscapes. The writing style is diverse, blending comic and satirical elements with vivid and poignant prose. Each narrative captures both the harsh realities and the potential of the world, offering a unique perspective on human experiences marked by delusion, misunderstanding, and the inevitability of death.

A young gentleman in Victorian London is drawn into a dark and dangerous world when he falls for a beautiful flower seller. A dark, Gothic love story for fans of Susan Hill and Andrew Michael Hurley.

Prodigal is a novel of darkly polished prose, human wit, acute psychological insights, shot throughout with threads of black humour. In tackling the complexities of familial love, Lambert has written a novel reminiscent of Edward St Aubyn or Alan Hollinghurst, and the result is raw, provocative and deeply moving.

"For fans of Shirley Jackson, Neil Gaiman, Roald Dahl, and Edward Gorey, a beguiling and disarming debut novel from an award-winning British author about a mysterious group of children who appear to a disfigured recluse and his country doctor--and the startling revelations their behavior evokes"--

A dark and fast-paced literary thriller about love, sex, art and death

A pair of disturbing novellas from the master of 'the literary uncanny'.

A dark and gripping psychological thriller, written with the glittering prose of Edward St Aubyn, Graham Greene or Ian McEwan.

When I was thirteen, my father killed my mother . . . How do you recover from something like that? Carol never quite does. Sent to live with her aunt, who barely tolerates her presence, Carol is grief-stricken and desperate for love. Her Uncle Joey is the only one to notice her; years later, he's also the man with whom she builds a home and a life. But when Carol helps to rescue a young refugee from the sea, that life threatens to unravel, just as surely as it did when she was thirteen. 'Charles Lambert is a seriously good writer' Beryl Bainbridge 'With exquisitely tender writing and quiet authority, Little Monsters is a powerful debut' Jill Dawson 'As memorable first lines go, this is right up there with the best of them, and the rest of Charles Lambert's debut novel doesn't fail to live up to that promising beginning . . . Beautifully written and crafted, and more compelling than many thrillers, Lambert's book puts the reader right in the head of a teenage girl; quite an achievement for a 53-year-old man' Daily Mail