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It's Leeds, 1940. On the night of the Luftwaffe's fiercest bombardment, Captain Abraham Matthews has finally caught up with Albie Crowe, the champion of a gang of petty thieves and professional plunderers. Holed up in a brick air-raid shelter at the scrub end of Woodhouse Moor, Abraham and Albie wait for the sirens to end and justice to come.

Clive and Martha have been together since they met at university; they have a young daughter, Eliza. Their marriage appears serene and content but when Eliza's adored new piano teacher turns out to be a woman from Clive and Martha's past, the enigmatic Eliot Fox, Clive becomes desperate to keep Eliot - and what she knows - away from his family.

Set in the time of the crucial 1970 Swiss referendum on immigration, this book introduces us to a host of colorful characters who struggle to make Switzerland their home: Eli, the Spanish bricklayer; Toni, the Italian factory worker with movie star looks; Madame Jelisaweta, the Yugoslav hairdresser; and Milena, the mysterious girl in the wardrobe.

A former boxer seeks revenge on a London gangster in this break-neck thriller from a superbly assured new voice.

Nicky has always known Russell was rich, but he has no idea how astronomically rich Russell is until his friend drops dead, on his 50th birthday, in his San Francisco mansion, with Nicky as the only witness.

For forty years the two men have kept up their friendship, with Russell's birthday offering ...

A political thriller set in 1950s Cambodia with echoes of Graham Greene and James Ellroy.

A country house is owned successively by Jews, Nazis and Communists. In the country house, the American girl seeks her hidden past. In the girl, a local reporter seeks redemption. In the reporter, a false hero of the past seeks exposure. In the false hero, the American girl seeks a guide. And so it goes, a round of conspiracy and desire.

A novel about bloodthirsty 1950s movie cowgirls with hallucinogenic toadsucking properties: this is seductive, fine fiction at the cutting edge of mayhem

Volume I of the `Annals of Lindormyn', an action-packed new fantasy series in the Tolkien tradition

It's New Jersey's hottest summer on record. The dangerous new drug, Ferocity, is cutting a swath through America's teen population, leaving many as useless vegetables. But all that matters to terminal slacker Scilla is that she graduates from high school so she can escape her horrible life.

Guillaume: For five hundred years I've existed as a gargoyle. Perched atop an old Montreal church, I've watched idly as humanity wanders by. With the witch Marguerite gone, there is no one left to protect, nothing to care about. I never planned to feel again.

This "novel biography" focuses a literary rather than camera lens on the private lives of Elgar and Delius --with no holds barred! In these new novel-biograhies Ken Russell reinvents the quintessentially English Edward Elgar (1857-1934) and Frederick Delius (1862-1934) for the printed page. Here the ...

Atmospheric, uplifting and deeply moving, Sketcher - Roland Watson-Grant's stunning debut - is a novel about the beauty of life no matter how broken it is.

A story of love, hate and music set in the offices of a famous music manager.

It's 1974 in DeKalb County, Illinois, and the planets have failed to align for Roy Conlon. Widowed and broke, he finds that his eight-year-old son Eric is suddenly a mystery to him. And as powerful forces pull Eric away, Roy's efforts to hold onto his son are threatened by weakness, guilt, and his participation in a foolish crime.

A tale of suspense, spirituality and redemption ripped from today's headlines, Collared is the story of two brothers abused by their beloved parish priest. Mitch becomes a reporter tearing through the shroud of secrecy cloaking around the church. He exposes the rampant pedophilia rotting the foundation ...

Get ready for an epic debut novel of insurrection and ambition, love and revenge, set in fledgling independent America. This astonishing debut is reminiscent of the finest of early Cormac McCarthy.

Thea Roberts has loved making clothes ever since her grandmother taught her to sew. Now her designs have captured the attention of Harmon Holt, a wealthy alum from her high school. Before she knows it, Thea's landed an internship with a hot LA designer?and she's about to find out what lurks beneath all ...