Los Angeles - a city of scheming Malibu actresses, ruthless gang members, virulent inequality and washed-out police.
Roaming the...

Abandoned by the retreating Spanish army during the Peninsular War, the gun is an eighteen pounder bronze cannon, thirteen feet...

In Victorian London, poor women are vanishing, and rumours abound of a shadowy gang known as the Spiriters.

In the unfamiliar...

Marco Carrera is 'the hummingbird,' a man with the almost supernatural ability to stay still as the world around him continues to...

As a child, Daniel Sempere discovered among the passageways of the Cemetery of Forgotten Books an extraordinary novel that would...

Ed Hartlepool has been living in self-imposed exile for five years, but with a settlement regarding his inheritance looming, he...

Police inspector Teresa Battaglia is:

[ ] Too old for her job
[ ] Overweight and diabetic
[ ] Terrified
[ ] The best...

In 2011, the peace of the Syrian city of Homs is disturbed by protests and shelling. A young girl, Nour, is forced to flee across...

1916, Calcutta. A man pauses for breath outside the ruins of Jheeter’s Gate station knowing he has only hours to live. Pursued by...

There's something in the water of Con Dao.
To the locals, a monster.
To the corporate owners of the island, an opportunity.
To...

Arky Levin, a film composer in New York, has promised his wife that he will not visit her in hospital, where she is suffering in...

Sixteen-year-old Jane has a crush on her history teacher. He's everything she has ever wanted - handsome, bookish, kind - and...

Funny, smart, damaged, Tom is lost in the machinery of the British mental health system, talking to a voice no one else can hear;...

Set in a shuttered pub - The Paper Lantern - in a village in the very middle of the country adjacent to the Prime Minister's...

The false cold of the theatre makes it hard to imagine the heavy wind outside in the real world, the ash air pressing onto the...

The President tells the story of a ruthless dictator and his schemes to dispose of a political adversary in an unnamed country...

I was twelve when the coat was made. Nathan, our tailor and dear friend, cut it for Grandfather in the first week of March 1938....

Leyli Maal is a beautiful Malian woman, mother of three, living in a tiny apartment on the outskirts of Marseille.

Her quiet...

Leyli Maal is a beautiful Malian woman, mother of three, living in a tiny apartment on the outskirts of Marseille.

Her quiet...

Two Friends
Wynn and Jack have been best friends since their first day of college, brought together by their shared love of the...

Cadiz, 1811. While the city is under siege from the marauding French army, an even greater menace is lurking within the city...

'We look on past ages with condescension, as a mere preparation for us... but what if we are a mere after-glow of them?'
...

'For a while he watched the butterflies which still swooped and fluttered in this little glade, impervious to the bombs that had...

'For a while he watched the butterflies which still swooped and fluttered in this little glade, impervious to the bombs that had...

Twelve-year-old Hans Thomas lives alone with his father, a man who likes to give his son lessons about life and has a penchant...

A tiger escapes from the local zoo, padding through the ruined streets and onwards, to a ridge above the Balkan village of...

What if you had said yes . . . ?

Eva and Jim are nineteen, and students at Cambridge, when their paths first cross in 1958....

A mysterious toymaker who lives as a recluse in an old mansion, surrounded by the mechanical beings he has created… an enigma...

Sylvie, Jude, Wendy and Adele have a lifelong friendship of the best kind: loving, practical, frank and steadfast. But when...

It all began with the whale.

When a young man washes up on the sands of St Piran in Cornwall, it is clear to the villagers...