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This atmospheric evocation of early 19th century Edinburgh is made all the more thrilling by the knowledge that it is a fictional account of a series of real murders and the astonishing, grisly career of Burke and Hare, men who killed people in order to provide corpses for dissection in anatomy lectures.

When Gerda Charles says she is the cousin of Robert Dudley, the lover of Queen Elizabeth I, she isn't joking. And for most of the past 500 years she's been trying to find a way to die. Thanks to the help of a big-busted girl called Lalla and the man who narrates this gleefully strange story, it looks like she may well have found a way. Although the narrator isn't very happy about it at all?

Edwin Culwin wakes up to find a ghastly pair of eyes staring at him, the eyes of a man 'who has done a lot of harm in his life'. They pursue him wherever he goes, he doesn't know why, he doesn't know who they belong to - but he can feel his soul being pierced. Part of Galley Beggar's new Ghosts series.

A novel all about the Man Booker Prize, published in this controversial year for the most famous literary award. It documents a series of fictitious happenings at real author events, as visited by the book's wonderful anti-hero, Francis Plug. From the publisher of the all-conquering "A Girl Is A Half-Formed Thing", by Eimear McBride.

A debut novel taking readers right up to, (and beyond) the limits of possibility, in a story of deep-rooted humanity and unforgettable characters. 56-year-old senior executive Raymond Ess and his personal assistant head to India to buy an antigravity machine.

Beginning in the early 1990s, Randall is a satirical alternative history of the heady years of Cool Britannia and the emergence of the Young British Artists. It asks what would have happened if Damien Hirst had never arrived? If someone else had become the most notorious and influential young British artist? And what if that someone had been more talented, more provocative, more outrageous? And far, far funnier?

A collection of short fiction from Booker-longlisted D.J. Taylor, who has been celebrated over the past two decades as a biographer, novelist and critic. Contains several newly written pieces, alongside a dozen other works, gathered under the same cover for the first time. Moving and profound profound, yet also gloriously funny.

A mass-market paperback edition of the critically acclaimed novel which satirises the literary world. 'Inspired. A brilliant, deranged new comic creation...' "The Sunday Times

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A retelling of "Don Quixote" combined with a recreation of the Peasant's Revolt, a gleeful hybrid of science, pseudo-science, absurd theory and profound, ingenious philosophy.