This is a compelling story, with a unique protagonist (Alexander) who engages the reader by focusing clearly on a single idea, and who takes that idea to extremes.
Sometimes, when you open a door or lift a lid, you find exactly what you expected to find: coats in the coat cupboard, bread in the bread bin, toys in the toy box. And sometimes you don’t.
After ministering to fallen women in Victorian London, Evelyn has suffered a nervous breakdown and finds herself treated by the Water Doctors in the imposing Wakewater House, a hydropathy sanatorium.
Having set himself up as London’s protector, Stanly is finding that the everyday practicalities of superheroism are challenging at best, and downright tedious at worst. So... Læs mere
In 1940, Holly Stanton’s grandfather was a spy, on the run in occupied Norway. He was rescued by a brave Norwegian fisherman, whose wife and children were executed in retaliation. Holly... Læs mere
Gabrielle Hunter, her husband Leo and son Stefan drive to a remote luxury retreat at the invitation of new client Art Fisher. Gabrielle is struggling to grieve the death of her father. As... Læs mere
A notoriously scary ghost is supposed to haunt the ruined medieval castle where Sunny and his friends are spending the day. But when a troubling visitor arrives at the antique shop, it turns out the danger is closer to home than they thought . . .
Burnt island is about a literary novelist, Max Long, who wins a fellowship to Burnt island to write his next novel. He ends up staying with the very successful novelist James Fairfax whose wife had gone missing under mysterious circumstances.
Death Magazine is a futuristic, glossy body horror magazine in poetry form. It takes our cacophonous obsession with perfectionism and turns it into a series of synthetic, blackly-comic nightmares.
This debut novel is about the transformation of two young women and about the way that a nation changes and develops after war. It evokes a specific, undiscovered place. It is characterised by striking imagery and daring form.
Fox Fires is a novel about the sensual experience of the city, of its sights and sounds, its hidden paths and the ambitions of those who walk them.
Lynne Bryan writes in such an insightful, thought-provoking and moving way about disability, the vulnerability of the body and of the mind, and about the frailty and also the strength of our corporeality.