This companion forms the best introduction to the work of one of Britain's leading experimental writers. Maggie O'Sullivan has an international reputation as a... Læs mere
The Art of the Novel is the first textbook written by writers who are also teachers for today’s Creative Writing students as well as more experienced practitioners of the novel. The... Læs mere
Tom is grieving for his girlfriend. Her powerful family, convinced he is responsible for her death, place a bounty on his head.
When the maidservant Auguste gives birth to her illegitimate daughter Magda, she feels burdened with a child she didn’t want. The girl grows up to become an ambitious woman, desperate for love and... Læs mere
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 . . .