“Bruges-la-Morte” is the story of one man’s obsession with his dead wife and his soul’s struggle between an alluring young dancer – his late wife’s double – and the beautiful, melancholy city of Bruges, whose moody atmosphere mirrors his...

Nadine, a sixteen-year-old runaway new to London, is set up in a decaying Georgian house by her Finnish lover, Kai. Slowly, she begins to suspect that Kai’s plans for her have little to do with love. ‘Be careful,’ warns...

During the course of a single night, Father Sebastian Urrutia Lacroix, a Chilean priest, who is a member of Opus Dei, a literary critic and a mediocre poet, relives some of the crucial events of his life. He believes...

Walking out on her cheating fiancé and domineering mother eight weeks before her wedding, Anna finds herself heading to Gatwick Airport and the Amalfi Coast. When she realises the relationship with her mother is beyond repair she decides to...

Cardiff 1999. The city’s booming. The Welsh Assembly kicks off in a welter of sexual scandal, fireworks and Shirley Bassey. So does the Rugby World Cup (well give or take the sexual scandal anyway). Cardiff 1999. Charlie Unger’s dead,...

A poor idealist forced to teach in secret, and reluctant to abandon his mother. A determined young woman, desperate to escape the struggles and tragedies of a dangerous Brazilian shantytown. A carnival competition offering hope of a better future...

IN FOUR DAYS, SOMEONE IS GOING TO KILL ME… At 8pm on 21st January, twenty-eight-year-old Charlie Grant believes she is going to be murdered and she wants Boston’s top homicide detective, D.D. Warren, to handle her death investigation. Confronting...

At an American Booksellers Association meeting in Las Vegas, public relations expert Temple Barr and feline detective Midnight Louie come face to face when a book publisher is discovered to have been dispatched with a knitting needle. It’s up...

Fantasies, or are they premonitions, of a great wave, an impending apocalypse, threaten to swamp a young woman trapped in a slowly curdling relationship. From the outside it all looks good—the casually elegant apartment, the cocktail parties, the impressive,...

Be careful what you wish for… Wife to heart surgeon and control freak, Tom and mother to four adolescent children, Rosie feels taken for granted as she juggles family life and her work as a teacher. She longs for...