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Building work in an expanding Reykjavik uncovers a shallow grave.

Years before, this part of the city was all open hills, and...

A seductive collection of stories from the 'magnificent story-teller' (Independent on Sunday). Rose Tremain has sold over one...

A dazzling novel of loyalty and dreams set in Restoration England.

The gaudy years of the Restoration are long gone and Robert...

Every morning Hakan von Enke takes a walk in the forest near his apartment in Stockholm. Then, one day he fails to come...

The 7th book in the Vampire Chronicles. Vampires, witchcraft and voodoo come together in this vivid, exotic and terrifying...

After ten years' journeying Odysseus returns, again and again, to Ithaca. Each time he finds something different: his patient...

Either you kill the bull, or the bull kills you - traditional proverb.

Chief Inspector Max Camara hates bullfighting but one...

We last saw Henry Smart, his leg severed in an accident with a railway boxcar, crawl into the Utah desert to die - only to be...

Ora, a middle-aged Israeli mother, is about to celebrate her son Ofer's release from army service when he returns to the front...

It is a few days before Christmas and a Reykjavik doorman and occasional Santa Claus, Gudlauger, has been found stabbed to death...

Britain's foremost female historian reveals the true story of this key figure in the Wars of the Roses and the Tudor dynasty who...

The captivating life of Margaret Douglas - a life of scandal, political intrigue and royal romance that spanned five Tudor...

Fourteen-year-old Tory Brennan is as fascinated by bones and dead bodies as her famous aunt, acclaimed forensic anthropologist,...

A dark-skinned young boy is found dead, frozen to the ground in a pool of his own blood. The boy's Thai half-brother is missing;...

It's the sweltering summer of 1944, and Newark is in the grip of a terrifying epidemic.

Decent, athletic twenty-three year old...

A skeleton is found half-buried in a dried out lake. The bones have been weighed down with an old radio transmitter: is this a...

October 1914: the destroyer Svea emerged from the Stockholm archipelago bearing south-south-east. On board was Lars...

Isamay's unusual name comes from her two very different grandmothers, Isa and May, who were both present at her birth and who...

Welcome to the village of Notwithstanding, where a lady dresses in plus fours and shoots squirrels, a retired general gives up...

Herbert Molin, a retired police officer, is living alone in a remote cottage in the vast forests of northern Sweden. He has two...

An old man is found murdered in his Reykjavik flat.

A cryptic note and a photograph of a young girl's grave are left...

Momik, the only child of two survivors, is brought up in Israel by a family seeking to ignore the past. No-one will explain to...

Enderby is a poet, social critic and Catholic. He may be found hiding in the lavatory where much of his best work is composed, or...

'One of the most productive, imaginative and risk-taking of writers... It is a clever, sexually explicit, fast-moving, full...

A teenage son shoots himself under his parents' bed. They sleep that night unaware he is lying dead beneath them.

A stranger...

'Our very best writer today' Milan Kundera

Sparkling with comic genius and narrative exuberance, I Served the King of England...

This ebullient, gallivanting novel encapsulates the world vision of the Czech Republic's best-loved author in one tumbling,...

A young English biographer is working on a book about the late writer, John Coetzee. He plans to focus on a period in the...

'Darling, this is Younes. Yesterday he was my nephew, today he is our son'.

Younes' life is changed forever when his...

Comprising stories from her debut collection, Blood, and the critically acclaimed Where You Find It - this collection presents...