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Under The Influence
Charles Spencer
For Will Benson, life cannot get much worse. Cuckolded, overweight and in career meltdown he is at his lowest ebb. Attempting to concentrate on his column in the shambolic trade rag, Theatre World, through a fog of lunchtime drinking, he recalls wistfully his halcyon days as a cub reporter...
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Red Mandarin
Christopher West
When the body of a senior Beijing official is found floating in Hong Kong harbour, its wrists fastened with handcuffs, Inspector Wang Anzhuang of China's Public Security Bureau is sent to investigate. Against the backdrop of a colony preparing to lower the Union Jack for the first time, Wa...
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That Was Loneliness
Juan José Millás
Elena Rincon has everything going for her: money, a successful, attractive husband, a beautiful daughter and a luxury flat. Despite all this, she is bored.
Filling her days with endless glasses of whisky and numbing her senses with a steady intake of cannabis, Elena is in a rut. Vowing to...
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Whoever Has The Heart
Jennie Melville
A cottage in the picturesque village of Brideswell seems the ideal retreat from the pressures of work for top policewoman Chairmian Daniels. But when the village beauty, Chloe Devon, disappears and a part of her corpse is discovered in London and another in a shallow grave in the village, ...
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Witch`s Familiar, The
Brian Battison
Nearly four hundred years ago Isobel Perkins was burned as a witch. As the flames licked her body she hurled a curse at the aldermen and their issue for all time.
Joyce Regent, a London author hounded by the press, comes to live in the witch's cottage. Has the witch returned to Bridgetown...
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