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A medieval mystery, a backlist title from the author of )The Successor( and )The Siege(. When a daughter is brought home to her mother by a mysterious ghostly rider, it sets off a chain of events that plunges the small Albanian village into fear and mistrust.

A Waterstone's New Voice 2009An Amazon Rising Star 2009Gwenni Morgan is not like any other girl in her small Welsh town. Inquisitive, bookish and full of spirit, she canfly in her sleep and loves playing detective. So when a neighbour mysteriously vanishes, and no one seems tobe asking the right questions, Gwenni decides to conduct her own investigation.Mari Strachan's unforgettable novel was one of the most acclaimed and successful debuts of ...

The brand-new Rafferty and Llewellyn Mystery - Detective Inspector Joseph Rafferty has just left his wedding rehearsal when Sergeant Dafyd Llewellyn calls to say that a local man has come home to find his wife dead - strangled - on the kitchen floor. Adrienne Staveley is soon revealed to be a woman with many secrets and several lovers, and there is no shortage of suspects. But to Rafferty's horror, his fiancee Abra's fingerprints are among tho...

Karin Alvtegen was born in J¿nk¿ping, Sweden, in 1965 and had a varied career, including work in set design for film and stage, before she started to write. She won Sweden's most prestigious crime novel award, the Glass Key, in 2000 with her novel, Missing, and further acclaim with her next two novels, Betrayal and Shame. She is the great-neice of Astrid Lindgren (author of the Pippi Longstocking stories), and lives in Stockholm.

Beyond parody and quite brilliant, it's best enjoyed after a three-Martini lunch.'GQ Magazine'The 'Mad Men' of this book were not mad at all. They were clever and articulate proponents of the American Dream. The book evokes a long-lost era of American self-confidence and optimism, and helps explain how America became a cultural icon.'Lord SaatchiIn 1970 Jerry Della Femina wrote this gossip-filled, insider's account of working on Madison Avenue...

Miranda July is a filmmaker, artist and writer. She wrote, directed and starred in The Future (2011) and Me and You and Everyone We Know (2005), which won a special jury prize at the Sundance Film Festival and four prizes at the Cannes Film Festival, including the Camera d'Or. July's fiction has appeared in The Paris Review, Harper's and The New Yorker. Her collection No One Belongs Here More Than You (2007) won the Frank O'Connor Internationa...

2 more volumes in the complete series of Schulz's hugely popular "Peanuts" cartoons, with introductions by John Waters and Mo Willems.

With an introduction by Seamus Heaney

Fitzgerald's popular serial about a man behind the scenes of old Hollywood. Narration by Kerry Shale.

Ben Brooks was born in 1992 and lives in Gloucestershire. He is also the author of Fences, An Island of Fifty, The Kasahara School of Nihilism and Upward Coast & Sadie. Brooks' work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and published in the Dzanc Best of the Web anthology.

When Rilke, a dissolute and promiscuous auctioneer, comes upon a hidden collection of violent and highly disturbing photographs, he feels compelled to unearth more about the deceased owner who coveted them.What follows is a compulsive journey of discovery, decadence and deviousness . . .'Astonishingly, this is a fi rst novel, catapulting Welsh straight into the superstar league, while establishing Rilke as a classic original.'The Times'In Loui...

Orwellian genius.