An intelligent, erotically charged thriller with deep moral implicationsYvonne Carmichael, renowned geneticist, public authority, happily married mother of two, sits in the accused box. The charge is murder. Across the courtroom, not meeting her eye, sits her alleged accomplice. He wears the beautiful pin-striped suit he wore on their first meeting in the Houses of Parliament, when he put his hand on her elbow, guided her to a deserted and ancient chapel, and began to undress her. As the barrister’s voice grows low and sinuous, Yvonne realizes she’s lost herself and the life she’d built so carefully to a man who never existed at all.After their first liaison, Yvonne’s lover tells her very little about himself, but she comes to suspect his secrecy has an explanation connected with the British government. So thrilled and absorbed is she in her newfound sexual power that she fails to notice the real danger about to blindside her from a seemingly innocuous angle. Then, reeling from an act of violence, Yvonne discovers that her desire for justice and revenge has already been compromised. Everything hinges on one night in a dark little alley called Apple Tree Yard.

Product Description: An intelligent, erotically charged thriller with deep moral implicationsYvonne Carmichael, renowned geneticist, public authority, happily married mother of two, sits in the accused box. The charge is murder. Across the courtroom, not meeting her eye, sits her alleged accomplice...read more

Product Description: From the author of Apple Tree Yard, a masterful thriller about espionage, love, and redemptionJohn Harper is in hiding in a remote hut on a tropical island. As he lies awake at night, listening to the rain on the roof, he believes his life may be in danger...read more

When Peter, Bet Walker's boyfriend of three weeks, suddenly dies in a car crash, she is surprised to find out that he has altered his will to leave a considerable fortune to her.

When the Cowpers, a respectable, middle-aged couple are found murdered in a quiet English village and their teenage daughter disappears, local newspaper reporter Alison decides to investigate, and unveils the hidden truths behind the picture-perfect village. Reprint.

When Mr. and Mrs. Cowper are found murdered in a quiet village in England's smallest county, Rutland, and their teenage daughter disappears, Alison, a reporter for the local newspaper, decides to investigate, in a tale that both follows and reverses theconventions of the traditional English village mystery

Chronicles thirty years in the lives of a single gypsy family, the Ruzickas, nomadic farm workers, from the birth of the Ruzickas' son, Frantisek, on the eve of Hitler's reign of terror, through the family's incarceration in a labor camp, through Frantisek's escape to live as a thief in Prague, to his desperate and futile attempt to rescue surviving members of his family. Reader's Guide available. Reprint.

'A darkly comic and disturbing reminder of the messiness of real life, and of people's ability to absorb the most startling events - even murder' INDEPENDENT

Product Description: An essential guide for every aspiring novelist!The thought of writing a full-length novel can be daunting. But in A Novel in a Year, Louise Doughty makes a seemingly vast and unconquerable task manageable by walking aspiring authors through the different aspects of writing technique in eminently accessible bite-size chunks...read more