'Addictive' Stylist'Sultry' Elle'Shimmers with suspense' Daily Mail'Sizzling' EsquireSummer in Paris. Leah, bored of tedious dead-end jobs, is intrigued to spot a job advert posted by the famous author Michael Young: 'Writer Seeks Assistant'.After an unconventional interview, Michael invites Leah to spend summer in the south of France with his family....

'Desire, class and Welsh nationalism prove a combustible combination in this brooding literary romance' Observer'At once a love story and a simmering tale of class, identity, and masculinity' i paper'Evokes North Wales in all its complexity, in water, resin and sky' Jessica Andrews_______Geth and Olwen live in different worlds. Olwen left North Wales for London to become a filmmaker and live...

'Unsettling, addictive, and razor-sharp, Francesca Reece is a devastatingly compelling new voice in literary fiction' Louise O'NeillWRITER SEEKS ASSISTANT TO HELP WITH ARCHIVING/RESEARCH FOR A NEW NOVEL. Don't bother to apply if your name is Shakespearean or classical.PARIS AND SOUTH. PART-TIME.Leah, a young woman who has found herself 'ambitioned' out of London, is now aimlessly adrift in Paris. T...

'Through a dewy sheen of teen nostalgia, Reece deftly explores the weight of political events on individual lives. Her supple, visceral prose evokes North Wales in all its complexity, beautifully rendered in water, resin and sky'Jessica Andrews, author of Saltwater and Milk Teeth'Francesca Reece is a devastatingly compelling new voice in literary fiction'Louise O'Neill, author of Asking For It and Idol

'One of the best British post-war writers of horror and the weird.'– Adam Nevill, author of The RitualJoel Lane (1963-2013) was one of the UK's foremost writers of dark, unsettling fiction, a frank explorer of sexuality and the transgressive aspects of human nature. With a tight focus on the post-industrial Black Country and his home city of Birmingham, he created a distinct form of British urban weird fiction.Scar City is one of the final collecti...

The bestselling and infamous diary of a high-class call girl, as seen on the show starring Billie Piper.Belle de Jour is the nom de plume of a high-class call girl working in London. This is her story.From the summer of 2003 to the autumn of 2004 Belle charted her day-to-day adventures on and off the field in a frank, funny and award-winning web diary. Now, in her Intimate Adventures, Belle elaborates on those diary entries, revealing (among other things) h...

A chilling, gothic ghost story that delves into the dark past of the 16th century Essex witch trials.To find the truth, she’ll risk her life…Sadie Asquith has been fascinated by the Essex Witch Trials for as long as she can remember. And for good reason too: between 1560 and 1680, hundreds of innocent women were tried for witchcraft.She begins researching the subject, but soon starts to experience strange, ghostly visions. Dark shadows haunt her eve...

In the four decades since his first book appeared in print, Terry Pratchett has become one of the world's best-selling and best-loved authors. Here for the first time are his short stories and other short form fiction collected into one volume. A Blink of the Screen charts the course of Pratchett's long writing career: from his schooldays through to his first writing job on the Bucks Free Press,; to the origins of his debut novel, The Carpet People; and on again to the di...

In 2010 thousands of people submitted ghost stories to The Daily Telegraph's first ghost story competition. Standards were chillingly high and only the spookiest went through to the shortlist of six. Presented here are short stories from Gill Baconnier, Justin Crozier, Ceri Hughes, Pat Black, Craig Drew and the winner, Richard Crompton, whose story 'Friends' is an uncanny take on social networking. Currently available only in ebook form they are the perfect company for a long wint...

All families have secrets.But some have more secrets than others.Jim is a brilliant raconteur whose stories get taller with each glass of whisky. His daughter Sam thinks it's time she found out the truth about her dad.On holiday in Orkney, Sam spies on Jim as he travels across the island. What has he hidden in the abandoned watchtower? Who is he meeting in the stone circle at dusk? And why is he suddenly obsessed with Norse myths?As Sam is drawn into Jim's s...

This is the story of John Self, consumer extraordinaire. Rolling around New York and London, he makes deals, spends wildly and does reckless movie-world business, all the while grabbing everything he can to sate his massive appetites: alcohol, tobacco, pills, pornography, a mountain of junk food and more. Ceaselessly inventive and thrillingly savage, this is a tale of life lived without restraint; of money, the terrible things it can do and the disasters it can precipitate.

Enter a London where rival sorcerers, hidden in plain sight, battle for the soul of the city in this urban fantasy series debut by an award-winning author." Neverwhere for the digital age. . . . One of the best books you'll read this year." —SFXFor Matthew Swift, today is not like any other day. It is the day on which he returns to life .Two years after his untimely death,...