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Nathan''s companions are scattered, making for Malarkoi, the city of the Mistress, the Master''s enemy. They are hoping to find welcome there, or at least safety. They find neither - and instead become embroiled in a life and death struggle against assassins, demi-gods, and the cunning plans of the Mistress. Only Sirius, Nathan''s faithful magical dog, has not forgotten the boy, and, bent on revenge, he returns to the shattered remains of Mord...

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The Book of Desire is the award-winning (and Women''s Prize-shortlisted) writer Meena Kandasamy''s luminous translation of the Kamattu-p-pal, a 2000-year-old song of love and pleasure and the third part of the Thirukkural - one of the most important texts in Tamil literature. Written by the poet Thiruvalluvar, the Kamattu-p-pal section of the Thirukkural focuses on love and female sensuality. It is the most intimate section of this great work ...

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In My Mind To Me A Kingdom Is, the extraordinary follow-up to his prize- winning novel Forbidden Line, Paul Stanbridge tells us about remarkable things. He tells us about the plains of Doggerland, lost under the North Sea. He tells us about ancient horses, carved into chalk hillsides. He tells us about the mysteries and wonders of trees, the beauty of equations. My Mind to Me A Kingdom Is is a book bursting with knowledge. It is a novel about ...

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GOD IS DEAD, his corpse hidden in the catacombs beneath Mordew. In the slums of the sea-battered city a young boy called Nathan Treeves lives with his parents, eking out a meagre existence by picking treasures from the Living Mud and the half-formed, short-lived creatures it spawns. Until one day his desperate mother sells him to the mysterious Master of Mordew. The Master derives his magical power from feeding on the corpse of God. But Nathan...

The first in a new fantasy trilogy from the author of the Wellcome Book Prize shortlisted novel "Playthings" and the critically acclaimed "Lucia".

The hugely intelligent, fun and compassionate Elliott also happens to be wheelchair-bound in a strict Catholic orphanage. Enter the blind, mute and headstrong Jim, who presents to Elliott the possibility of figurative forms of escape and defiance. But how easy would it be to communicate these yearnings? Litt is a "Granta" Best of Young British Novelists selection and a regular on Radio 3's "The Verb".

Following the events of "Francis Plug: How To Be A Public Author", Francis takes up an opportunity to be Writer in Residence at a London university, with more social pitfalls and financial precariousness set in motion.

Toby Litt's father wanted him to find about their ancestor: William Litt, a champion Cumberland Wrestler. Would Toby like what he found out about himself along the way? As a novelist, as a son, and as a father in turn? Would he have to get in the wrestling ring?... Would he even want to? Using the 19th century as a guide, 'Wrestliana' asks vital questions about modern day masculinity, competition, and success. It is a beautiful portrait of two...

James Joyce's daughter Lucia's winning and charming nature, relationship with Samuel Beckett and final thirty years in an asylum in which her schizophrenia was monitored makes for a powerful subject in Alex Pheby's intellectually uncompromising novel, redressing the extent to which literary culture has overlooked Lucia Joyce's presence.

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A modern-day "King Lear" set against the backdrop of the Anti-Corruption Riots in India in 2011-2012. Provides an insight into the breakneck pace of life in one of the world's fastest developing economies.

A memoir of the author's relationship with 'Grand Uncle' Robert Graves, set in the magic of bohemian Majorca in the 1960s, and a tale of sex, lies and divided loyalties.

A new edition of Gough's semi-autobiographical novel which details the events of two summers that he spent with his uncle, the poet and author Robert Graves, on the island paradise of Majorca, in 1953 and 1960. Ties in with the centenary of WWI, as Graves was a renowned war poet and author.

In this mischievous take on the classic ghost story genre, the hardboiled crime novelist James Rodman inherits Honeysuckle Cottage from his aunt, the romantic novelist Leila J. Pinckney. When James moves into the cottage - using it as a writer's retreat - he soon finds a damsel in distress intruding into his writing. Has the hard-bitten writer mellowed with age, or is a more ghostly influence at work?