The Shadow of the Object'One of our boldest writers' Deborah Levy A magnificent work of shadow play and a meditation on desire, metamorphosis and mortality. Flora is visiting home in Mexico when the family dog leaps up and bites her hand. She winds up in hospital where she undergoes several surgeries under anaesthesia and meets Wilhelmina, an elderly German woman with pneumonia, who collects pre cinema toys and instruments. The two of them embark on a series of dream like

Until someone discovers her dark secret

When Detective Sime Mackenzie is sent from Montreal to investigate a murder on the remote Entry Island

You have everything to look forward to – yet childhood is already behind you

'Here's a tale of Victorian London to freeze your blood on a cold winter's night' - Evening Telegraph

From an Oxfordshire air base

Jardine leads the athletes through the street battles of Barcelona and onto the fighting in the Catalan countryside but when murderous betrayal blights his previous fortune

and a reckoning for her own desire for even greater power - if she can let go

On later inspection

IRAKLIS - a mysterious Greek terrorist group

much to the delight of the children

Nelson's destruction of the French fleet and Bonaparte's obsessive war-mongering convinces Lausard he will never see Paris again

entertaining and educational voice in contemporary British crime fiction