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Private investigator Lee Arnold and his Muslim assistant Mumtaz Hakim investigate the death of a young woman and find there's more to the case than meets the eye. Ex-soldier Lee Arnold and his Muslim assistant Mumtaz Hakim run a detective agency in London's ethnically diverse, crime-ridden East End. Mumtaz is approached by an Egyptian woman, Salwa, whose husband is in Belmarsh on terrorism charges. Salwa convinces Mumtaz of her husband's innoc...

Original and bewitching rewrites of children's stories and fairytales set around World War Two.

Book four in the Hull-based crime series, Taking Pity takes detectives McAvoy, Ray and Pharaoh on their most dangerous collision course to date.

Coca, Southern California. A small town on a wild river, at the margins of the red-rocked desert and the forest where the last of the state's Native Americans still make their home.When Boa, the charismatic new mayor, decides to put Coca on the map, he plans a monumental new project: a six-lane bridge, two hundred metres high, designed and destined to catapult the city into the third millennium.Workers from across the globe flock to California...

Six Italians writing from the margins: these stories are linked by common themes of belonging, dislocation and identity, and together they take the pulse of a country in turmoil.

A story of hope. A story of survival. A story of love. A story about finding the best of all possible worlds. Soulful and thought-provoking, The Best of All Possible Worlds 'confirms Lord as the natural heiress to Octavia Butler and Ursula Le Guin' - Financial Times.

We all wonder how much our pet understands, what is going on in their head and just how intelligent they really are. This entertaining and comprehensive guide will not only explain your cat's sometimes baffling behaviour - it will give you the means to test your pet's IQ yourself. Using your cat's natural skills, How Smart Is Your Cat? will enable you to improve their responses and reactions - and ultimately their IQ - as you work through a we...

Three lives. Three secrets. Three days. As their paths cross a whirlwind of events ensures, which will change each of them forever.

From the best-selling author of "Old Man On A Bike", a travelogue telling the story of octogenarian Simon Gandolfi's travels across India by motorbike.

Spy thriller centring around the plot to overthrow Prime Minister Harold Wilson, in this latest novel from a writer described as 'poised to inherit the mantle of John le Carre' "Irish Independent

Early one blustery day near Le Havre, three teenagers head down to the sea together to go surfing. They are old friends: Chris, Johan and Simon. Exhausted after just one hour in the rough waves, they begin their drive back to town, but Chris, the driver, falls asleep at the wheel and the car skids off the road. Whilst Chris and Johan escape with a few broken bones, it soon becomes clear that Simon is beyond resuscitation, brain-dead in a deep ...

In this 1999 work, now available for the first time in the English language, Mikhail Shishkin displays at full force the writing talents that have won him international recognition for books like Maidenhair and The Light and the Dark. The Izmail of the title is a border fortress town, taken and lost by Russian forces numerous times in history. Here it is taken as a metaphor for the task of mastering life itself, and the scope of the task is co...

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Yalo was a soldier on one of the many sides in Lebanon's sectarian civil war, before becoming a deserter and a thief, a nightwatchman in Paris, an arms smuggler, and then a rapist. And then he falls in love with his victim - who turns him in to the police. This novel is a modern Thousand and One Nights, a series of confessions extracted under torture, a recitation of all of his memories, all his sorrows, all his guilt - and of the other crimes...

An old Colombian man bears witness to the senseless violence engulfing his country in an immensely disturbing book where every detail is true to life.