‘First in a new series of supernatural thrillers centred around a struggling Manchester-based weekly newspaper dedicated to investigating the weird, the unexplained and the inexplicable’– The Stranger Times [ About the Book ] There are Dark Forces at work in our world (and in Manchester in particular) and so thank God The Stranger Times is on hand…
‘A touching and unforgettable novel about dreams, redemption and the the beautiful game from one of Scotland’s most exciting contemporary novelists’– There’s Only One Danny Garvey [ About the Book ] A promising young football player returns home to his tiny village, his dreams in tatters and a dark secret haunting his conscience, in a…
‘Marks the startling conclusion to the million-copy bestselling Dark Iceland series’– WINTERKILL [ About the Book ] When the body of a nineteen-year-old girl is found on the main street of Siglufjörður, Police Inspector Ari Thór battles a violent Icelandic storm in an increasingly dangerous hunt for her killer … The chilling, claustrophobic finale to the international…
‘In the dying days of the Raj, can paths divided by time and circumstance ever find each other again?‘– The Sapphire Child [ About the Book ] In 1930s Northern India, childhood friends Stella and Andrew have grown up together in the orbit of the majestic Raj Hotel. Spirited Stella has always had a soft…
‘Those who are confined have the very best imaginations’– Saving Lucia [ About the Book ] How would it be if four silenced women went on a tremendous adventure, reshaping their pasts and futures as they went? What if one of those people were a fascinating, forgotten aristocratic assassin and another a fellow patient of…
‘Denied her real identity,she will find the truth…’ – The Blue Washing Bag [ About the Book ] 1940The Payton twins, born to an unmarried mother in a small town in rural Ireland, are brought to the children’s home by the Parish Priest. Constantly reminded of their mother’s unforgivable fall from grace, they suffer the…
‘The smallest man. The biggest heart. The mightiest story.‘– The Smallest Man [ About the Book ] Nat Davy longs to grow tall and strong and be like other boys, but at the age of ten, he’s confronted with the truth; he’s different, and the day when the stares and whispers stop is never going…
‘THE END OF THE STORY IS JUST THE BEGINNING…’The Mist [ About the Book ] 1987. An isolated farm house in the east of Iceland. The snowstorm should have shut everybody out. But it didn’t. The couple should never have let him in. But they did. An unexpected guest, a liar, a killer. Not all…
‘There’s no such thing as an impossible crime….’– Fortune Favours the Dead [ About the Book ] New York, 1946. Lillian Pentecost is the most successful private detective in the city, but her health is failing. She hires an assistant to help with the investigative legwork. Willowjean Parker is a circus runaway. Quick-witted and street-smart,…
‘She holds the future of a nation in her hands . . .‘– The Governess [ About the Book ] 1933. Progressive young teacher Marion Crawford becomes governess to the little Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret. Determined to give her pupils a fun and normal childhood, she took them on buses, swimming at public baths and…