Luke is a failure - until one day a different kind of catastrophe occurs. The man in front of him at the post office queue drops down dead. Instinctively, Luke's hand snakes out and slips the corpse's unposted letter into his pocket. With this impulsive act, he begins a search for justice.

Stunning true-life Manhattan noir from a prize-winning author.

This work is an attack on the destruction of the culture and environment of indigenous tribes in Latin America and the South Pacific by fundamentalist missionaries from the US.

A novel about two museum guards, one an eccentric uncle, the other his orphaned nephew, DeFoe. This book is an examination of the desire to step out of the everyday and into action. With echoes of the holocaust and of a world lost but not forgotten, this is a poignant novel.

JFK is President and Ezekiel (aka Easy) Rawlins has a job with the Los Angeles Board of Education as a school janitor. No dogs are allowed on the school premises but Pharaoh, the dog in question, belongs to Idabell Turner, a curvaceous teacher whose husband has murder on his mind.

Winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award, this is a brilliantly innovative and highly entertaining novel from the celebrated pioneer of urban fantasy.

A weird and wonderful contemporary science-fiction classic from the author of VURT, PIXELJUICE, NEEDLE IN THE GROOVE and NYMPHOMATION.

On and off, all that hot French August, we made ourselves ill from eating the greengages ...

When was the last time you took the time to take notice of the world around you? The sounds and the smells in the air; the feel of the earth beneath your feet, or the sights of the scenes surrounding you? We can sometimes take our Senses for granted, never truly understanding the power they have in helping us understand and experience the world we live in. The slightest touch or the smallest whisper can help us connect to the things around us in very real ways that we can never fully comprehend.

A collection of poems that is by turns a voice and a chorus: a hyper-vivid array of dramatic monologues, allegories, parables and tall tales. It creates world after world, peculiar yet always particular, where the only certainty is the unexpected.

Jan works in a small country bookshop in the south of England and instigates a strange and unsettling relationship with a man who wanders in one day to buy a book. She describes and explores the relationship, interweaving the account with her experiences of an affair many years earlier.

The longest of these stories explores the Japanese underworld. Other topics include a young father's inability to eradicate the ghostly memories of his little twins who have died; and a group of children daring each other in a game of depravity while their parents sip drinks.

A collection of short stories set mainly in Scotland. They feature the foibles of characters at all levels of society, who show an independent mind more concerned with behaviour and incident than national virtues. The award-winning author's other books include "Secret Villages".

From the author of "Witchcraft" comes this black comedy about an unsuccessful solicitor who decides to murder his wife, with devastating results.

Mr Warde, an apparently respectable Victorian country gentleman, is accused by his neighbours of seducing the local girls of the village and is brought to trial. Based on a real life trial that took place in 1847, the book explores sexual hypocrisy.

For all the promise of his name Jack Skeat cannot be a poet. His friend, Rex Petley - eel-catcher, girl-chaser, motorcycle maniac - takes that prize. But is he also a murderer? Maurice Gee is the author of "The Burning Boy".

Robert Wilson is aimless and feckless, and has passed himself off as a Muslim in order to get a job at the Wimbledon Independent Islamic Boys Day School. His decline and fall is as inevitable as it is hilarious, as everything Islamic baffles him.

1577. Queen Elizabeth I has imprisoned scheming Mary Queen of Scots, and Alyce's mother is burned at the stake for witchcraft. Alyce flees to London - but as she discovers her own dark magic, powerful forces are on her trail. Soon she finds herself deep in a secret battle between rival queens ...

Seek the scattered Storm-Opals of Sea, Sky and Land, before an enemy finds them and uses them to wield dark power... The trail of the Storm-Opals takes Mouse into a dangerous new world. With little brother Sparrow and friend Crow alongside her, she finds herself in Sky, where fortresses hide amongst the clouds.

If the high-profile remarriage of her ex-husband wasn't hard enough on Ursula, now her daughter is missing - and the man she loves is prime suspect

In the treacherous environment of the Roman Civil War, a beautiful young seeress and a confidante of the rich and powerful is found murdered. Obsessed with her image, Gordianus the Finder starts to investigate the murder of this woman about whom no-one seems to know very much at all.