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The Weather Clock said knife o'clock so I chained Dad up in the shed. In Scarper Lees world, parents dont make children children make parents. Sc...

Set mainly in America, with a backdrop of the 1954 race to break the four-minute mile, The Murder Mile is hardboiled detective fiction that follows...

Nao Brown is not well. A 28 year-old half-Japanese, half-English girl tormented by her OCD and struggling to get her design and illustration career...

Nao Brown suffers from OCD, but not the hand-washing, overly tidy type that people often refer to jokingly. Nao suffers from violent, morbid obsess...

In 2008, 17-year-old Samia Yusuf Omar stood alongside some of the fastest women in the world on the start line of the Olympic 200m. Four years late...

It is the 4th century B.C.E in Greece. Hipparchia is about to marry the rich son of a family friend when she meets Crates. As the wedding day appro...

The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists tells the story of a group of working men in the fictional town of Mugsborough, and socialist journeyman-proph...

Simon, a bookseller, has hit hard times. The financial crisis has hit and sales have slumped; his store looks set to close, and he has become incre...

David Smith is giving his life for his art literally. Thanks to a deal with Death, the young sculptor gets his childhood wish: to sculpt anything...

Miskatonic University, Arkham, 1908. Professor Nathaniel Peaslee collapses in front of a class of students, only coming to his senses five years la...

Gerda stands at the window of her nursing home, looking up at the stars. A simple question has been haunting her for years, but until now shes mana...

In 1911, Roger Casement was knighted by King George V for his humanitarian work. Five years later, he was hanged for treason. The Trial of Roger C...

Based on his most famous case study - that of Russian aristocrat, Sergei Pankejeff - Sigmund Freud recounts the history of an obsessional neurosis....

Incredible, inspiring, infinitely readable Craig Thompson, author of Blankets The story was tremendous, a real page-turner. And I loved Michael K...

The turbulent life of Vincent van Gogh is a constant source of inspiration and intrigue for artists and art lovers. In this beautiful graphic biogr...

Paris, 2002. Arthur Vlaminck, a young civil servant, lands an impressive first job as the speechwriter for Alexandre Taillard de Vorms, the French ...

The doctor's verdict is final: David has cancer. There is still a possibility of remission, but it is very small. And if the tumour kills him, Dav...

The history of wine is the history of civilisation. It is the religious drink par excellence. In Greek mythology, references to wine abound. In th...

It is the long, hot summer of 1976. Hugo, the youngest child of three, is walking with his father in the woods. There, he comes face-to-face with a...