The true Fleet Street life that Frayn describes is long gone, but this book is tremendously evocative of journalism in the 1960s. Dyson is running small columns but yearns for bigger things. Work is carried out late morning and...

It’s the countdown to Christmas and PI Sal Kilkenny is exhausted even thinking about the festive season – her life as a single mother is hectic at the best of times. So when she is asked to investigate a...

‘I experienced that sinking feeling you get when you know you have conned yourself into doing something difficult and there’s no going back.’ So begins Robyn Davidson’s perilous journey across 1,700 miles of hostile Australian desert to the sea...

Thomas Kydd has dragged himself up in the navy from press-ganged seaman to captain of his own ship. Now he faces disgrace. After losing favour with his superiors, and suffering terrible personal tragedy, Kydd and his ship are sent...

A producer. A novelist. An actress. It is summer in 1968, the year of the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy. There are riots in Paris and the Vietnam War is out of control. While the world...

Miller’s groundbreaking first novel, banned in Britain for almost thirty years, now reinvigorated in a new Harper Perennial Modern Classics edition. A penniless and as yet unpublished writer, Henry Miller arrived in Paris in 1930. Leaving behind a disintegrating...

(Hella Mauzer Series Book 3) Helsinki, June 1953, at the heart of the Cold War. Hella, now a reluctant private investigator, has been asked by her former boss at the Helsinki murder squad to do a background check on...

Raine Taylor has one goal – justice for her murdered sister. She knows Genie’s husband strangled her and left her in an alley – Peter had been threatening to kill his wife for years. The police said there was...

Nominated for a Saltire Award, Truth or Dare is a comic, compassionate and powerful tale of friendship, secrets & premeditated murder. Belfast-born architect, Libby & her sassy sidekick Becka are happy squatting in bank-employee, Lorna’s London flat till they...

Kareena Sinha, an Indian-American domestic-violence counselor, disappears from her Seattle home. When the police dismiss suspicions that she herself was a victim of spousal abuse, her best friend, Mitra Basu, a young landscape designer, resolves to find her. Mitra’s...