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Life and death played out over 48 hours. A father desperate to be with his young son escapes from a secure psychiatric hospital, knowing he has jus...

Maverick investigator Dominic Queste is on the trail of missing butcher Sam Price. But he soon uncovers links to a killer with a taste for games. W...

From the author of His Bloody Project, shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2016. There does not appear to be anything remarkable about the fatal c...

From the author of His Bloody Project, shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2016. There does not appear to be anything remarkable about the fatal c...

The follow-up to The Walrus Mutterer, longlisted for the Highland Book Prize, 2018. Northern Britain, Iron Age. Pytheas of Massalia, the famed Gr...

The remarkable inside story of Archangels, the oldest and one of the biggest business angel syndicates in the world. In 1992, angel investment was ...

A tender and poignant debut of the redemptive power of unexpected friendship. In an old-fashioned fishing community on Morecambe Bay, change is imp...

Lakeland Book of the Year 2018, Bookends Prize for Art and Literature, WINNER. With its enchanting song, striking orange bill and endearing willing...

Aged fifty, on a whim, Marion Dunn joined a boxing gym. Training to improve fitness quickly became something of an addiction, and then a source of ...

From the author of the prize-winning As the Women Lay Dreaming comes a remarkable ''unreliable biography'' of Karl Kjerulf Einarsson: an artist and...

1977: A killer is released from prison and returns home - a decaying, deserted boarding house choked with weeds and foreboding. Memories of strange...

A truly fine debut - Rodge Glass. 1911. Young Avram Escovitz is shipped off to Scotland to escape conscription into the Russian army. Living in the...

Moving, poetic and quietly provocative. The Independent. A novel sure to appeal to fans of Outlander. When Alys revisits the beautiful Scottish is...

A missing teenage girl should be an easy job for Dominic Queste after all, finding lost souls is what he does best. But wouldnt it be better somet...

A captivating psychological thriller - The Herald. Manfred Baumann is a loner. Socially awkward and perpetually ill at ease, he spends his evenings...

Britain is home to some forty species of dragonfly, and public interest in their plight is high right now thanks to their primeval beauty, aerobati...

One of Britain's greatest living naturalists. - Chris Packham. The Essential Guide to Creating a Beautiful Garden Haven for Dragonflies. With stunn...

The best nature writer working in Britain today. - The Los Angeles Times. Eagles, more than any other bird, spark our imaginations. These magnifi...

Longisted for the Jerwood Fiction Uncovered prize 2015 Powerful stories. - Marina Warner. Obsession, longing, deceit and even murder feature in thi...

Narrating the twisted tale of a backstage double murder, Gypsy Rose Lee, the queen of the striptease, provides a tantalising glimpse into the under...

Challenged to prove her claim that an 18th-century diet was better than today's, for a full year Fiona J Houston recreated the lifestyle of her 179...

This is a story of gardens and how people can grow well in them. Through a lifetime's experience of award-winning work in community gardens and in ...

Centuries before European explorers 'discovered' the Americas, the ancient Maya flourished in thriving cities like Palenque and Chichen Itza, where...