Mud sticks, but dead men don’t bleed. Magdalena is a woman from DI Charlie Priest’s past, who comes very much to the forefront of his present when her lifeless, broken…

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Australia, 1882. Following a series of brutal massacres, the population of the Badtjala people is in sharp decline. When German scientist Louis Müller offers to sail Bonny, Jurano and Dorondera…

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A mysterious veiled lady carries a counterfeit painting into an art dealer’s office. A widow with three hands slips out of a church door. A farmer lies dead in a…

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A deranged predator on the rampage, a man with a terrible, drug fuelled obsession, a monster who thinks he’s a god. The discovery of a decapitated body signals the start…

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…And my search brought up a fair amount, but mostly quite stern, scientific, textbook-looking books. Of course, AIDS is indeed a very serious topic and it might seem inappropriate to…

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Book 2 in the Great Library series from the UK’s number one bestelling author In Ink and Bone, Jess Brightwell learned that the shining light of the Great Library of…

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  The New York Times Bestselling Series ‘All in readiness. An unmarked carriage will be waiting for you behind the house at midnight’ History student Eloise Kelly is in London looking…

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1926, the BBC. The nation listens. A woman finds her voice. London, 1926. Maisie Musgrave is thrilled to land a job at the fledgling British Broadcasting Corporation whose new and…

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Detective Lou Perlman has become an outcast from police HQ, doomed by a sadistic Chief-Superintendent to a seemingly infinite ‘sick-list’. Deprived of doing battle with Glasgow’s criminal underworld – which…

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A new, stand-alone novel from New York Times bestselling author Jacqueline Winspear.  By July 1914, the ties between Kezia Marchant and Thea Brissenden, friends since girlhood, have become strained –…

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The first book in the Hatton and Roumande mystery series. A stunning debut rich in period detail and sinister intrigue that introduces a memorable duo – one of London’s first…

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The treacherous times of the Restoration are brought to startling life in an exciting new historical crime series. In 1664, four years after Charles II is restored to the throne,…

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Through the wonder of twitter I have seen a few fabulous pictures of people’s mini free libraries around the country and the world. Whether in disused phone boxes, as we…

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…novellas in translation. I adored their unique and rather beautiful newspaper-style catalogue. 5. Gone are the days when you’d come away from the fair with a bag of free books….

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…a penchant for old-school travel found himself a residency with a shipping line company. That would certainly give you a lot of time to write distraction-free. In the states Amtrak…

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…than this summer. Saturday Live at the Serpentine Sackler Gallery was the first of the summer’s events to catch my eye. It’s FREE and has been running for a few…

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…spending it cooped up indoors. And there’s no need to spend a fortune either. This past Friday evening saw us taking advantage of a free live music event at Scoop…

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…wouldn’t let us distract her until she’d reached the final page. I think the pleasures of becoming engrossed in a story in a peaceful, technology-free environment have reminded me of…

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…crime-writing?” Another option was “Would you murder for a chance to win the Debut Dagger?” The possibilties abound. Feel free to suggest others.) But I digress. The point of this…

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…of spine had a functional purpous, allowing the book to sit perfectly flat and open on a kitchen table, leaving the reader’s hands free to cook up a storm whilst…

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…almost too much for Elliot to bear … Wildly funny, erotic and beautifully observed, Swagbelly is the moving tale of a pornographer in search of a decent life. Recommend This:…

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