Richard Burnip
1) Starve acre
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"An atmospheric and unsettling story of the depths of grief found in an ancient farm in northern England, soon to be a major motion picture starring Matt Smith and Morfydd Clark. The worst thing possible has happened. Richard and Juliette Willoughby's son, Ewan, has died suddenly at the age of five. Starve Acre, their house by the moors, was to be full of life, but is now a haunted place. Convinced Ewan still lives there in some form, Juliette seeks...
3) The Loney
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Hailed as "a masterful excursion into terror" by the Sunday Times—the eerie, suspenseful debut novel from the author of Devil's Day and Starve Acre.
Winner of the Costa First Novel Award
A Best Book of the Year, London Times and Daily Mail
"The terrors of this novel feel timeless . . . There are abominations here, and miracles."—New York Times Book Review
"An amazing piece of fiction."—Stephen...
Winner of the Costa First Novel Award
A Best Book of the Year, London Times and Daily Mail
"The terrors of this novel feel timeless . . . There are abominations here, and miracles."—New York Times Book Review
"An amazing piece of fiction."—Stephen...
4) Devil's day
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"In the wink of an eye, as quick as a flea, / The Devil he jumped from me to thee. / And only when the Devil had gone, / Did I know that he and I'd been one ... Every autumn, John Pentecost returns to the farm where he grew up, to help gather the sheep down from the moors for the winter. Very little changes in the Endlands, but this year, his grandfather--the Gaffer--has died and John's new wife, Katherine, is accompanying him for the first time....
5) Fatal Lies
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Fatally addictive!' real reader review
The Forrester Detective Agency is going from strength to strength: they've expanded their office space and even hired a new office manager – a qualified and astute woman named Carol.
What starts as a simple burglary case soon turns into something darker. The victim of said burglary soon turns up dead, after making threats to the local yobs she believed to have been responsible.
But it soon becomes clear...
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BRAND NEW from the #2 bestselling author of The Family at No. 12, Anita Waller
'A great cast of characters, a riveting storyline, a nail-biting climax!' Valerie Keogh
Nobody is safe…
When the murdered body of a woman is found in a Sheffield carpark, former cop turned private investigator Matt Forrester finds himself embroiled in the case, because the last call the victim made was to him…
But the case isn't as simple as the drug theft it looks...
7) Bomber
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"Events relating to the last flight of an RAF Bomber over Germany on the night of June 31st, 1943. An RAF bomber crew prepares for a bombing raid on Ruhr in western Germany. Masterful, gripping, and widely considered Len Deighton's greatest novel, Bomber is a minute-by-minute account of what occurs over the next twenty-four hours. Told through the eyes of protagonists on all sides - including the British RAF crew, a Luftwaffe night fighter pilot,...
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We are living in a climate emergency. But how much worse could it get? Will civilization collapse? Are we already past the point of no return? What kind of future can our children expect? Rigorously cataloguing the very latest climate science, Mark Lynas explores the course we have set for Earth over the next century and beyond. Degree by terrifying degree, he charts the likely consequences of global heating and the ensuing climate catastrophe. At...
9) Repentance
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1981 Argentina is in the grip of a brutal military dictatorship.
Inspector Joaqun Alzada's work in the Buenos Aires police force exposes him to the many realities of life under a repressive regime: desperate people, terrified people and - worst of all - missing people.
Personally, he prefers to stay out of politics, enjoying a simple life with his wife Paula. But when his revolutionary brother Jorge is disappeared, Alzada will stop at nothing to...
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Peaks and pinnacles, jagged crests and fantastic outlines; a wilderness of weird shapes, dark, solemn and awful. Sunshine occasionally illuminates their rugged crests... but the darkness of eternal night dwells in their gorges.
C.R. Weld The iconic ridge of the Black Cuillin on the Isle of Skye is the UK's most challenging mountain range. Over 11 kilometres long and above 3,000 feet in places, the ridge contains 11 Munros and 16 other summits. In...
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Ten brief essays on how reading and meaningfully engaging with literature can help us live better, more purposeful lives. How do we live successfully? How do we live fully? Identifying the meaning of life and where we are heading preoccupies all of us at some stage or another. Who better to help us articulate this sense of direction than the most articulate people among us? Writers and thinkers, Ben Hutchinson suggests in this sparkling new book,...
12) My Name Is Why
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At the age of seventeen, after a childhood in an fostered family followed by six years in care homes, Norman Greenwood was given his birth certificate. He learned that his real name was not Norman. It was Lemn Sissay. He was British and Ethiopian. And he learned that his mother had been pleading for his safe return to her since his birth. Here Sissay recounts his life story. It is a story of neglect and determination. Misfortune and hope. Cruelty...
13) Six four
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"The nightmare no parent could endure. The case no detective could solve. The twist no reader could predict. For five days in January 1989, the parents of a seven-year-old Tokyo schoolgirl sat and listened to the demands of their daughter's kidnapper. They would never learn his identity. They would never see their daughter again. For the fourteen years that followed, the Japanese public listened to the police's apologies. They would never forget the...
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A new history of the Middle Ages, revealing how Christianity and Islam evolved out of a shared cultural and religious ferment, and how this shaped the development of the West The medieval world, stretching from the Mediterranean to the North Sea, from the Asian Steppes to the Straits of Gibraltar and North Africa, from the Nile to the Volga, lasted from the fourth to the sixteenth centuries. This geographical and temporal breadth (including the early...