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The British government is secretly bankrupt. There is no money to pay the police, armed forces and the NHS. JJ Darke, lone parent and Scottish ex-intelligence officer, is blackmailed by an unscrupulous politician into stealing North Korea's gold bullion to plug Britain's catastrophic financial deficit and avoid widespread lawlessness.

Lyrical and witty, moving and profound, Widows and Orphans tells the story of Duncan Neville, a newspaper editor struggling to maintain the various aspects of his life which appear to be falling apart. Arditti paints a compelling portrait of a good man fighting for his principles in a hostile world.

The lives of a man plotting a murder, a woman trying to help her broken and confused adult daughter and an orphaned baby weave together in India in the new novel from the author of The Blue Bedspread.

A beguiling, surreal and controversial novel by Colombia's greatest writer since Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Paris, 1990. Comte de Landois has ordered his wife Marguerite to travel from Paris, to join him in the Loire valley. Her journey into the pastoral quiet shattered by the appearance of a dead man on the railway tracks. Who is he, and why does Marguerite's young travelling companion pale when he sees him? ...

Shall We Gather At The River tells the story of Enoch O'Reilly, the great flood that afflicts his small town, and the rash of mysterious suicides that accompany it.

In this stylish urban thriller, people come together to celebrate the launch of the new restaurant but little do they know they're being watched. The dog-days of summer are about to come to a shocking end.

Kate Bennett isn't looking for love, but it shows up in a surprising and dramatic package. Matt Reynolds arrives on the scene and treats Kate and her friends to a taste of excitement and beauty. When disaster strikes, Kate and her friends rally to support Matt. But will Kate be strong enough to give ...

Follow the journey of a woman ahead of her time who survived life as an unwed mother of children to different fathers during an age of intolerance to 'women of low morals'. Discover the many rules she breaks in order to achieve contentment with the man she loves.

Abandoned by his fellow travelers on a tiger-ridden shore in eastern Bengal, the narrator stumbles across a strange, beautiful woman, Kapalkundala. But she has been enslaved by a priest who plans to sacrifice them both in an esoteric rite. The only way for Kapalkundala and the narrator to escape is by ...

Three grown brothers come together in this assertive debut about a gun deal--and a family--gone wrong in the city of Memphis.

Rose is the fifth tallest woman in Britain.Their tumultuous, bizarre love affair plays out through a prisoner's correspondence with the heartbroken Alexandra.And as Andreas' peculiar tragedy unveils, Alexandra begins to find solitude in an uncanny world of lookalikes and murder.

In this riveting, meticulously researched new novel, Alessandro Gallenzi draws on his experience as a publisher in the digital era and casts a light into the darker side of our modern technological world, while revealing how a well-kept secret can change the course of history for ever.

Patrick Bluett is searching for a new life in the low light of a Copenhagen winter. Divorced and navigating the rocky relationship with his grown-up, nest-flown children, Bluett spends his days listening to John Coltrane's majestic jazz symphony A Love Supreme and gazing out at the frozen streets, a ...

The Future for Curious People follows the entwined lives of a group of new adults, set in motion by the premise of a look into the future

If your greatest fear could take the form of your closest friend, who would you trust? An engrossing and terrifying supernatural thriller.

A young man driving across Ireland with his wife asks her how long she would wait before being with another man if he died.