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'One of Britain's most visionary writers', David Peace ‘That uniquely valuable writer and independent film-maker Chris Petit’, Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian 'A tale for our feverish times ... It's fascinating to wander round Petit's baroque imagination.' The Times THE FINAL DAYS OF ADOLF...

FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER IN THE BLINK OF AN EYE Winner of the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year 2024 Winner of the Crime Writers’ Association ILP John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger 2024 One detective driven by instinct, the other by logic. It will take both to...

The brand-new thriller featuring DCS Kat Frank and AIDE Lock from the award-winning and Sunday Times bestselling author of In the Blink of an Eye. Human suspicion. AI manipulation. Who can you trust when truth has no meaning? DCS Kat Frank returns to work at the Future Policing Unit after a...

When these canine-loving sleuths go off the leash, the fur's bound to fly! The Dog Park Detectives are back with another tail of intrigue from the bark side of crime… When a young homeless man is found murdered in the playground of their local park, the Pack – a group of friends who meet...

'A spectacular story of shape-shifting, love and faith . . . It enthralled me' JESSIE BURTON, multi-million bestselling author of The Miniaturist 'Astonishing . . . a scorching vision of a book' CHARLOTTE WOOD, Booker-shortlisted author of Stone Yard Devotional 'Incredible' EVIE WYLD, author of...

Over the course of Guatemala's thirty-year armed conflict -the longest ever in Central America-over 200,000 people were killed. During Argentina's military dictatorship in the seventies, over 30,000 people were disappeared. Today, forensic anthropologists in each country are gathering evidence to prove atrocities and seek justice. But these teams do more than just study skeletons-they work to repair families and countries torn apart by violence.

The powerful and moving memoir by a scientist and mother of three of how she learned to live again after a sudden severe infection caused her to die but then revive with 'locked-in syndrome' - able only to blink an eye. At the age of 38, Rikke Schmidt Kjærgaard, a Danish scientist, wife and mother of three, is struck down by an acute bout of bacterial meningitis. She awakes from a coma in intensive care to find herself completely paralysed, unable to show she is conscious except by blinking her eye.

'Scandal, ambition, and family collide in this absolute banger of a novel. The Lowe Job is funny, juicy, and impossible to put down' LOUISE O'NEILL 'Vanity Fair meets The Kardashians in this razor sharp, compelling and keenly observed novel about fame, family and feminism' SARRA MANNING...

An unforgettable love story set in Siberia during the Second World War and of living with impossible choices. Lena knows she hasn't got long left. While a nurse administers morphine to ease her pain, she relives her life. Growing up in a small town in Poland, she was an earnest young girl...

‘A moving, relatable and heart-thumpingly good story about family secrets and the lengths we’ll go to protect our loved ones.’ CATHY BRAMLEY When Hope’s only son Paul met and married Edie, Hope was delighted that he had found love and was settling down to make his own family. Hope has...

From the bestselling author of In the Blink of an Eye comes an inventive thriller that pits algorithms against experience, logic against instinct, and one undetectable killer against two extraordinary detectives. “Unswervingly gripping and scary, and at the same time beautifully tender and...

SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Two detectives: one human, one AI. And a case that will test them both. “Wildly original, heartfelt, funny, and properly thrilling, this is the kind of fresh and fearless debut I just adore.”—Chris Whitaker, author of All the Colors of the Dark, a Read with...

New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice An anthropologist working with forensic teams and victims’ families to investigate crimes against humanity in Latin America explores what science can tell us about the lives of the dead in this haunting account of grief, the power of ritual, and...

National Bestseller A New Yorker Best Book of 2024 A “thought-provoking and timely” (The Times, London) global history of witch trials across Europe, Africa, and the Americas, told through thirteen distinct trials that illuminate a pattern of demonization and conspiratorial thinking that has...