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SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE AS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4 BOOK AT BEDTIME McGahern's 'masterpiece: the sort of book which you can give anyone of any age and know that they will be changed by it' (Colm...

The covid pandemic poses huge challenges for Scotland – but also a unique opportunity to rethink who we are as a country, where we are heading, and how to restructure our economy, culture, politics and...

A Kemal Kayankaya MysteryA Turkish worker - Ahmed Hamul - is stabbed to death in Frankfurt's red-light district - certainly no reason for the local police to work overtime. Kemal Kayankaya, however has...

'Guy Flood, returns to the Black Country with his girlfriend, Alison, to attend his identical twin brother's funeral. The reasons he left, and the secrets he left behind, slowly become clear. A chilling...

Evie Mathews and her son Alfie flee from her abusive partner Seth to spend New Year with her half-brother Luke at their late father's summer home on the Suffolk Coast, only to find Seahurst abandoned...

2002. A young American woman stumbles one morning from the forest outside Berlin - hands dirty, clothes torn. She can remember nothing of the night. She returns to the life she once knew, but soon an...

'I am hungry for your presence. I hanker for the great blaze of your glance which when you turn it on me, will burn out the husk of my body and draw my soul to you.' Julia O'Faolian's second novel,...

'Yes, it was a crusade. But just what was it the people out there feared and hated so much? Not surely the candidate. He was a decent man. Or was that it?' With Tom Fool (1962) David Stacton concluded...

In Horse Heaven the universe of horse racing is woven into a marvellous tapestry of joy and love, chicanery, folly, greed and reckless courage. Spanning two years on the circuit, from Kentucky and California...

'Members of the jury, the case is now before you to decide on the evidence . . . There is no alternative plea of manslaughter or justifiable homicide; your verdict varies only between innocence and guilt...

For someone damned to be forgettable, Addie LaRue is a most delightfully unforgettable character, and her story is the most joyous evocation of unlikely immortality. Neil GaimanA Sunday Times-bestselling,...

A frightening and impressive portrait of evil by one of Latin America's leading contemporary novelists.'A monumentally engrossing novel.' Los Angeles Times

The first novel by Jonathan Lethem (author of the award-winning Motherless Brooklyn) is a science-fiction mystery, a dark and funny post-modern romp serving further evidence that Lethem is the distinctive...

The stories in High Ground are set in ordinary places, in the streets and suburbs and dancehalls of Dublin, the small towns and fields of the midlands, the big houses of the beleaguered Anglo-Irish in...

'An imaginative, well-plotted mystery' Sun Sentinel'A great read with so much excitement! WOW!' 5* reader reviewWINNER OF ANTHONY AWARD FOR BEST PAPERBACK ORIGINALWINNER OF THE AGATHA AWARDNOMINATED FOR...

'That is how it works in the City. Every time you think you know the answer to a question, you discover that the question makes no sense . . .' This is the story of Anna Blume and her journey to find...

Have you ever boarded your morning commute and wished you'd never arrive at your destination? That is what happens to the protagonist of The Way to Work. Having boarded what he assumes to be his usual...

'A gripping mystery.' Publisher's Weekly'One to read, put down to savour and ponder, and then return to for more puzzling. A very satisfying book!' 5* reader reviewWINNER OF THE ANTHONY AWARD FOR BEST...

'Brilliantly eerie' PETER JAMES'Engrossing and beautifully dark . . . a cracking good read' JO BRAND'A most original sleuth' THE TIMESWelcome to the River Wye: a place of poetry, historic obsession......

The writer and professional controversialist Gustav Slavorigin is murdered in the small Swiss town of Meiringen during its annual Sherlock Holmes Festival, his body discovered with an arrow through the...

LONGLISTED FOR THE EDINBURGH FESTIVAL FIRST BOOK AWARD In a hard-boiled city of crooks, grifts and rackets lurk a pair of toughs: Box and _____. They're the kind of men capable of extracting apologies...

First published in 1960, A Signal Victory was David Stacton's eighth novel, and the first in what he envisaged as an 'American Triptych.' In this opening panel Stacton paints a vivid picture of the impact...

The New Frontier is a landmark publication of writing from the Irish Border, composed of non-fiction, fiction and poetry – it is a chorus of voices from some of the island's greatest writers, that conveys...

'A very special kind of twisted genius.' SARAH HILARY'A gripping thriller.' Woman's Own'One of the best crime novelists writing today.' TESS GERRITSEN'A hair-raising ride.' Boston GlobeA TESS MONAGHAN...

An Observer and Spectator Book of the Year Shortlisted for the Historical Writing Association Gold Crown AwardMeet Yuri Zipit. A boy who's had a bang on the head in a collision with a Moscow milk truck.He...

The Bohemian Girl (1988), Frances Vernon's fourth novel, transports us to 1890s London to meet the young Diana Blentham, whom Vernon first introduced to readers - as a celebrated grande horizontale -...

A classic seaside psychological thriller from author of Waterstones Thriller of the Month, Uncle Paul: 'Britain's Patricia Highsmith' and the 'grandmother of psycho-domestic noir' (Sunday Times) 'Brilliant...

Academic anthropologist Stan Binstead is headed off to East Africa on sabbatical. Adulterous by nature, he's irked when his wife Millie asks to accompany him. But as the couple pass through London the...

In one of his Independent pieces Miles Kington once referred to a volume of Edward Lear's limericks translated into French. Not an easy task, you might think, and in translating Alphonse Allais into English,...

'A very special kind of twisted genius.' SARAH HILARY'A natural storyteller at the height of her powers.' LEE CHILDA TESS MONAGHAN MYSTERYMeet Tess Monaghan - ex-Baltimore Star reporter and accidental...