One Wednesday morning in November 1912 the ageing Thomas Hardy, entombed by paper and books and increasingly estranged from his...

The New Start
Fin Macleod, now head of security on a privately owned Lewis estate, is charged with investigating a spate of...

Racism, but "managed" through virtual reality

Black Friday, except you die in a bargain-crazed throng

Happiness, but...

At the age of five, a blind African-American boy is handed over to a brutal state home. Here Ludlow Washington will suffer for...

June, 1957. One afternoon, in the backwater town of Sutton, a young black farmer by the name of Tucker Caliban matter-of-factly...

Almost-true stories for a post-truth world

Wrong! Not Nice! Sad!

A Manhattan party on election night. Liberal media types...

A woman on the edge of the sea finds a girl on the edge of life.

On the flooded coast of Cornwall, Ia Pendilly ekes out a...

A collection of four novellas: each taking place in 1998, each set in the world of SIX FOUR, and each centring around a mystery...

Claire goes missing the night her father agrees to give her up for adoption. Her mother died when she was born. In the tiny...

The Scottish Borderlands, 1590s
Harry Langton is called back to the country of his childhood to aide an old friend, Adam...

In this darkly ironic novel - a quest for truth, a satire, an elegy - Joanna Kavenna displays fearless originality and wit in...

"It was Indiana, it was the dirt she had bloomed up out of, it was who she was, what she felt, how she thought, what she...

Since my baby was born, I have been able to laugh and see the funny side of things. a) As much as I ever did. b) Not quite as...

A DI Ryan Wilkins Mystery

A Shocking Disappearance

A four-year-old girl goes missing in plain sight outside her nursery in...

In a tiny settlement on the west coast of Greenland, 11-year-old Aleq and his best friend, frequent trespassers at a mining site...

A searing, provocative satire by one of the most important African-American novelists of the twentieth century that lays bare the...

9th November 1989, East Berlin, the day the Berlin Wall will fall - Bernd Zeiger, a Stasi agent whose life's work, a manual on...

Measuring the World recreates the parallel but contrasting lives of two geniuses of the German Enlightenment - the naturalist and...

Set across two continents, Tiger is a sweeping story of survival and redeeming love that plunges the reader into one of the...

"It was Indiana, it was the dirt she had bloomed up out of, it was who she was, what she felt, how she thought, what she...

January 1983, Colchester CID

A new year brings new resolutions for Detective Inspector Nicholas Lowry. With one eye on his...

One Wednesday morning in November 1912 the ageing Thomas Hardy, entombed by paper and books and increasingly estranged from his...

After a college party, two boys drive a girl home: drunk and passed out in the back seat. Rumours spread about what they did to...

What Shankly said isn't even half-true. In fact, it's bollocks. Football isn't the be-all and end-all of everything. If nothing...

An extraordinary debut novel by Natasha Randall, exposing the seam of secrets within an American family, from beneath the plastic...

At a bus stop in south London, black teenager Eldine Matthews is murdered by a racist gang. Twenty years later, L Troop's top...

An electrifying debut novel of two women's friendship, a haunting obsession and twisted ambition, set against the feverish...

It begins with a chance encounter at the top of the world.

Fay Morgan and Nelson Nilsson have each arrived in Inuvik, Canada -...

Nessa Crowley's murderer has been protected by silence for ten years.
Until a team of documentary makers decide to find out the...

Cath is a photographer hoping to go freelance, working in a record shop to pay the rent and eking out her time with her manager...