On the London Underground, someone is pushing women under trains. In his search for the killer, Casimir, a Tube worker, is led ever deeper into a labyrinth of long forgotten passages and deep shelters - and into the terrible secrets of his own childhood.

Set against the social divide of contemporary London, Luxury Amnesia follows a group of degenerates and misfits (washed-up pop stars reduced to painting-and-decorating, spoilt delinquents, property speculators and mature Liberal Arts students) as they are sucked into a quicksand of extortion and criminality.

Andy Gates and Phil Jessup were famous for fifteen seconds. Their band had a worldwide hit when their single Waterbed was used on the soundtrack to a jeans commercial. But, overnight success eluded them when their second album, Luxury Amnesia was never released. Five years later Andy is eking out a living as a painter and decorator and Phil's solo career as a singer has foundered. In his search for a short cut back from obscurity, Phil introduces Andy to the sinister and destructive world of the Bowring family. Posh, rich and rather stupid, would-be musician Mark Bowring has everything to live for. His father Richard might have run into problems developing golf courses in the Far East, but Mark's young stepmother Emma wants to have it all - except for the job and the kids. Hoping to rekindle a lost love, Andy finds himself redecorating the Bowrings' house at the precise moment when greed, sloth and thwarted ambition pull the family apart, drawing Andy into a pool of lies and extortion, until it looks as if he might be back in the papers again, this time facing a murder charge.

Praise for The Big Kiss:
'Gripping.' Observer
'Jucily sexy.'Julie Myerson
'Hitchcockian.' Scotland on Sunday
'Inventive, unpretentious, funny and deliriously cynical.' Esquire
'Wickedly funny and exciting.' Company
'A fast-paced, funny read that will make you laugh out loud.' Express on Sunday

Luxury Amnesia
"I think he's the only genuinely witty thriller writer around. It's a pleasure to read him, as he writes with a level of sophistication almost unknown in the thriller." David Hare, Daily Telegraph
"Whether or not crime is your genre, you should read Huggins for his unique, conversational style and witty imagery… A good ear for dialogue and a gimlet eye for pretension make for satisfying swipes, both a meeja bores generally… and at other unsympathetic characters." Xanthe Sylvester, Time Out
"Huggins keeps the narrative brisk and sharp, the dialogue witty, and the tension impeccably measured." Big Issue in the North
"Huggins excels at the set-pieces. He nicely captures the fractious, vapid hipness of newly trendy areas. He is also good on the blind panic of the innocent as they assume the mantle of guilt, the ease and unease of sexual desire and the jerky transition from fame to obscurity, his rather beguiling descriptive power." Tim Teeman, Times Metro
"Huggins marshalls the elements into a novel which goes like an express train with an intensity of occurrences matched only by the comedy of the circumstances." Caledonia Magazine
"Huggins writes with a great deal of verve." Independent on Sunday
"An enjoyable and original thriller, an unusual and darkly comical whodunnit and a worthy follow-up to the author's acclaimed debut, The Big Kiss." Yorkshire Post
" a tense thriller that… grips from start to finish… Huggins's cast of petty crooks prove good company for the fast-paced two hundred pages." Matt Thorne, Literary Review

The first novel in five years by one of the world's greatest writers.

England, 1930s. Christopher Banks has become the country's most celebrated detective, his cases the talk of London society. Yet one unsolved crime has always haunted him: the mysterious disappearance of his parents in Old Shanghai when he was a small boy. Now, as the world lurches towards total war, Banks realizes that the time has come for him to return to the city of his childhood and at last solve the mystery - that only by his doing so will civilization be saved from the approaching catastrophe.
Moving between London and Shanghai of the inter-war years, When We Were Orphans is a story of memory, intrigue and the need to return; of a childhood vision of the world surviving deep into adulthood, indelibly shaping and distorting a person's life.