The story of Michael Sullivan (aka "the Angel of Death"), a hit man for an Irish American gang in Depression-era Chicago. His work crosses into his private life, leading to the death of his beloved wife and son, leading Sullivan and his surviving son to set out on a journey of revenge.

The Devil's Larder, another uniquely imaginative book from Jim Crace, is a cumulative novel in sixty-four parts, catering not only for our taste buds but also for our cultural, sexual and imaginative appetites. Crace's readers might learn that little is to be trusted about food from these hilarious, delightful and subversive ingredients, but they will encounter a startling and touching patchwork portrait of a community where meals are served with lashings of passion and recipes come spiced with unexpected challenges and hopes.
Beware allergic reactions: The Devil's Larder may contain traces of nuts, genetically modified products and fatal toxins.

It is July, 2003. In the middle of its maiden voyage the luxury cruise ship Emerald Dolphin suddenly catches fire and sinks. What caused it? Why didn't the alarms go off? What was its connection to the revolutionary new engines powering the ship? NUMA special projects director Dirk Pitt races to rescue the passengers and investigate the disaster, but he has no idea of the bizarre chain of events about to engulf him. In the next few weeks, Pitt will find himself confronted by an extraordinary series of monsters, both human and mechanical, modern and ancient. He will tread upon territory previously known only to legend. At the end of it all, though many lives will be lost, and many saved, it is Pitt's own life that will change for ever...

Hailed as the new Minette Waiters, Nicci French is now firmly established as the latest name in crime writing following the huge success of her first novel The Memory Game. Now comes her second, an equally sophisticated psychological thriller which makes for compulsive reading.

A murderous savage attack in a quiet suburb of a provincial English town leaves a husband and wife dead and their teenage daughter with her throat cut - but alive.

Fearful the attackers may strike again, the police search for a haven for their one witness and turn to Dr Samantha Laschen, who seems ideal as protector. Dr Laschen is a pioneering specialist in the treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder and has just moved into the area from London to an isolated house in the bleak Essex fenlands.

Despite being burdened with her own torments, torn between her non-committing lover Danny, her medical career and her little daughter Elsie, Samantha feels duty bound to provide a sanctuary. But what begins as a favour and a professional experiment ends as a fight for Samantha's own sanity, for the truth and ultimately for the very survival of all that is most precious to her.

The Safe House is a truly gripping read that takes to task the whole issue of post traumatic stress disorder. Is it really a medical condition or simply a state of mind to enable the victim to find comfort in being a casualty of their own circumstance?

Nicci French is the husband and wife team of the journalist Nicci Gerrard and writer Sean French. Together they manage to write seamless novels whilst juggling their own writing careers and a family of four young children. Their first novel The Memory Game was published and immediately went into the top ten of the bestseller lists. They live in North London.

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More cases for the wily lawyer.
Horace Rumpole, one of the finest barristers ever to defend a client, weaves his way elegantly among the intricacies of the courtroom and the human heart, only to find that advancing years catch up with even the most indomitable spirit.

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Chris, along with other trainees from his investment bank, is involved in a fight over a girl, Lenka. One of them falls into the sea and drowns. Ten years later Lenka is murdered in a hotel room. Chris realises that her death is related to the accident all those years ago. At top investment bank Bloomfield Wiess, they taught them to be winners, predators, killer deal-makers. While on the bank's training programme in New York, Chris and Lenka had become part of a close-knit gang of ambitious trainees, working and playing hard. But when a failed affair sparked a confrontation during a drunken boat-trip, one of the gang died, leaving the rest to cover up the truth of the tragedy.
Ten years later, a helpless Chris watches Lenka's lifeblood soak into the snow of a Prague street--and his world falls apart. With his friend and business partner dead, Chris not only has to fight to keep his company afloat in the face of nervous investors, but must also discover who is behind Lenka's seemingly random--but coolly professional--murder. Then others are killed and it looks like Chris could be next.
Now it seems that their shared past might contain an even more sinister secret than Chris had thought. And that someone from the training programme took their lessons rather too seriously. And they won't let anyone stand in their way ...

Anthea Bell (Translator)
The real life story of Jacques Austerlitz who, at the age of 5, came to London on one of the so-called kinder-transports in the summer of 1939. Austerlitz is placed with foster parents in wales, a childless couple who, for reasons of their own, erase in the boy all knowledge of his identity. Though he does, later on as an adult, have intimations of his otherness, Austerlitz, whose profession is that of an architectural historian, goes through life assiduously avoiding all clues that might point to his origins and to the fate of his true parents. It is only in his retirement that the past returns to haunt him and makes him explore what happened to him half a century previously, taking him back on a journey into the heart of Europe on the edge of war. The main locations of the book are Wales, London, Prague, and various places in Belgium and Paris.

“Sebald’s hypnotic prose lulls you into tranced submission, a state of heightened attention that is also a kind of stupor.”- Independent on Sunday
“This wonderful book seems more of a parallel version than a translation in the usual sense; it manages to convey the impression … that is was initially thought of in English. … I await the next volume with a quiet intensity.” Times Literary Supplement
“The novel has the strange bloodless lucidity of a dream, haunting, challenging and intriguing in equal measures.”- Metro
“[Sebald] is one of the important writers of our time in any language.”- New Statesman
“Sebald’s novels read like a greatly elaborated version of the child’s game in which a block of seemingly random letters yields … hidden messages.”- London Review of Books
“What a text! Sebald is the Joyce of the twentieth century.”- The Times
“The first thing to be said about the German writer W.G. Sebald is that anyone with a serious interest in fiction should read him.”- Daily Telegraph
“It may or may not be fiction, but W.G. Sebald’s wartime narrative provides a hypnotic sense of the power of history.”- The Observer Review