Since the ascendancy of the Taliban the lives of Mosheen and his beautiful wife, Zunaira, have been gradually destroyed. Mosheen’s dream of becoming a diplomat has been shattered and Zunaira can no longer even appear on the streets of...

HACKNEY and the wider area: A young gang leader is found stabbed on a Hackney estate – but two people confess to the murder.Ndekwe, an ambitious, newly promoted Detective Sergeant within a subtly racist police force, believes the more...

Long listed for the Walter Scott Prize 2016 Amory’s first memory is of her father doing a handstand. She has memories of him returning on leave during the First World War. But his absences, both actual and emotional, are...

Sisters Lexie and Amber used to share everything, including their dream of getting out of their small town. Born only ten months apart, they once thought they couldn’t be closer. They were wrong. Fifteen years ago, Amber was brutally...

Tara Sweet is a sensible young woman whose life is turned upside when her mother marries a younger man, and Tara’s boyfriend ends their relationship. Finding herself at Otter Bay, on the Californian coast she falls for a young...

In Thatcher’s London, Lilly, a white Muslim nurse, struggles in a state of invisible exile. As Ethiopian refugees gradually fill the flats of the housing estate where she lives, Lilly tentatively begins to share with them her longing for...

After his mother’s death, Thomas finds a few clues about his mother’s time as a `military wife’ in 1950’s Cyprus and investigates, making certain assumptions based on his vague childhood memories

1565, Malta: a vital outpost between the divided nations of Europe and the relentlessly expanding Ottoman Empire. Faced with ferocious attack by a vast Turkish fleet, the knights of the Order of St John fear annihilation. Amongst those called...

An original penal colonly, Morris builds up the captivating history of this city – brash, chic, wordly, a contrast of cultures..

Manhattan 1960s –  Leonard, a young writer drifting through the city, meets Sylvia by chance at a friend’s shabby Greenwich Village apartment. He’s instantly besotted with her striking beauty and quiet disdain, and the question of what to do...