In his debut novel, Stav Sherez - author of the best-selling Carrigan & Miller detective series - explores a history of terror and mass murder rooted in Europe's murky past.In a forgotten corner of a
Benjamin Britten, sailing uncomfortably close to the wind with his new opera, Death in Venice, seeks advice from his former collaborator and friend, W H Auden.
An Asian kid from Kent goes to college in London and teams up with a sympathetic group of anti-racists. But it's 1989, the year of the fatwa, and as Shahid begins a hedonistic affair with his lecturer
LONGLISTED FOR THE ASPEN PRIZEOn the elite New England campus of Webster College, a student protest is underway. Faced with an impossible and potentially tragic conflict, that now involves her own stu
This collection of Seamus Heaney's work, especially in the series of 12-line poems entitled "Squarings", shows he is ready to re-imagine experience and "to credit marvels". The title poem is typical i
Edgy, funny and devastating, Self is the fictional autobiography of a young writer at the heart of which is a startling twist. And as adulthood begins, indecisively, boundaries are crossed between co
For fans of Borgen, The Killing and the Wallander series, a thrilling novel of murder and political scandal in Oslo. An elderly woman is found dead in a nursing home.
And it's there she discovers that the only thing worse than an unsolved case, maybe, is a solved one. From the acclaimed author of Dope and Come Closer, City of the Dead is the first novel of a de
Geling Yan traces the lives of two individuals separated by prejudice and mistrust, but bound forever by their passion for one another. But many barriers are laid between the lovers - by Chris's wealt
Jim's faltering career in the railway police hangs on whether he can solve the murder - but before long the pursuer becomes the pursued, and Jim finds himself fighting not just for his job, but for hi
A restaurant. Two curved banquettes. It's a celebration. Violent, wildly funny, Harold Pinter's new play displays a vivid zest for life. In The Room, Harold Pinter's first play, he reveals himself as
Since the Sixties, Keith Johnstone has led the work on improvisation in theatre, schools and universities. His unique ideas, set out in the classic text, Impro, have now been taken up by practitioners
A Booker-longlisted novel of art, absence, loss and passion, from Britain's most exciting contemporary writer. Moving between Italy and England, the lives of four people intertwine across half a cent
'Highly addictive' KARIN SLAUGHTER'A major talent' HARLAN COBEN'A great set-up, a situation you can almost see yourself in, and then it keeps you guessing right to the very end.