A Song for Issy BradleySHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA FIRST NOVEL AWARD I cannot remember when a novel has seduced me so completelyit feels as if a trusted old friend is telling you the story, that the characters are people you know The Times A terrific book . . . I loved A SONG FOR ISSY BRADLEY. Its wry, smart, human, and rather miraculously, avoids mawkishness. And, ultimately, its moving and comforting in a way that makes sense even to the agnostic'. Nick Hornby, The Believer

another of Walsinghams spies

John Connolly

isolated and under threat of invasion

whose brother Arun is struggling to win the approval of his mother for the Hindu girl he has chosen to marry

This edition is part of a new commemorative series of Ballards works

so determined to obtain revenge for a murdered colleague that his pursuit of the cartel veers dangerously towards an obsession outside the law

didn't return home from school and in spite of exhaustive enquiries and extensive searches

Philip's aversion to violence in any form leads indirectly to murder and overwhelming horror

' SAARA EL-ARIFI

Misia Schmutter

Hiroshige and others

Genevieve Taylor is a Sidhe