The Slowworm's SongBy the Costa Award winning author of PURE, a profound and tender tale of guilt, a search for atonement and the hard, uncertain work of loving. An ex soldier and recovering alcoholic living quietly in Somerset, Stephen Rose has just begun to form a bond with the daughter he barely knows when he receives a summons to an inquiry into an incident during the Troubles in Northern Ireland. It is the return of what Stephen hoped he had outdistanced. Above

1966: Sook-Yin is exiled from Kowloon to London with orders to restore honour to her family

This is the story of Bronwen Vaughan

Kazilik dragons are firebreathers

beautiful undertaking' POORNA BELL

In desperation Pharoah sends for Taita

' Mick Herron

life-embracing Ida Arnold

When a body is discovered in a Glasgow canal

re and Thomas Midwinter become fascinated with trying to understand the human mind

but he is loyal all the same

this time fatal

The last time Tess de Vere saw William Benson she was a law student on work experience