From a rising star of British SF comes a richly imagined, thought-provoking sequel to Dark Eden, winner of the Arthur C. Clarke award, 2013.

A novel of shadows, intrigue and manipulation in a Europe teetering on the brink of the Great War...

'Superb. This has all the elements that made the first three Picketts so pleasurable' - Booklist

A powerful, sparsely written novel that explores, in brutal detail and measured prose, the life of a man who killed for a living.

From one of South Africa's finest novelists comes a glittering and vivid fable of politics and power

From the Man Booker-longlisted author of A Little Life comes 'a novel you will finish and immediately want to read again' (Sarah Waters).

A brilliant and strikingly original debut novel, The Last King of Lydia imagines the bloody rise and fall of Croesus, 'the richest man on earth', and powerfully shows how happiness, even for those who have everything, is so often elusive.

The utterly charming prequel to the New York Times-bestseller Mr Penumbra's 24-hour Bookstore