Where she she once danced, bickered with her sister, her life is now that of a farmer's wife - with all the sacrifices and vexations that brings. Suffocated by the heat, by her loneliness on the farm, by the mistrust she inspires as a foreigner and by the lack of money Mathilde grows restless.

A Lost Great American Master: meet Jack Kerouac's inspiration in these heart-expanding tales of immigrant life in 1930s USA, introduced by superfan Stephen Fry.

Simon Armitage is the most widely and unreservedly praised poet of his generation. Elsewhere, questions of belief and trust, of identity and knowledge, dealt with as they occur in everyday domestic life, contribute to a picture of our contemporary world that is at once realistic and touched with a unique imaginative intensity.

The fifth novel in the enthralling series starring Golden Age crime writer Josephine Tey A house that can't rest A crime that won't fade... When Josephine inherited a remote Suffolk cottage from her godmother, it came full of secrets.

By the end of this wordless novel, when the artist wakes and ends the nightmare, readers have experienced a visual thriller with political overtones.

'Exceptional.' VAL McDERMID 'Gripping . Whatever her patient's crime - serial homicide, stalking, arson - she helps them to better know their minds. The Devil You Know speaks to our shared humanity and makes the case for compassion over condemnation, empathy over fear. 'Urgent and invaluable.' DAVID LAMMY 'Remarkable .

As she argues 'Punishment doesn't change minds but psychological space does'. As well as exploring her patients' minds, Adshead examines her own learning curve and psychology - how she deals with revulsion and hopelessness, boundaries and personal risk.