'A masterful collection' MAXINE PEAKE'Astonishing and long overdue, you really need to read this’ ALAN MOORE**'**An absolute treat' ADAM S. LESLIEUnleash the dark and delirious with this electrifying anthology of folk horror from some of Britain's most iconic working-class voicesA phonograph cylinder that plays on a loop for eternity, casting out ghostly spectres of violence; a centuries-old s...

**Winner of the 2022 Sunday Times Charlotte Aitken Young Writer of the Year Award****Longlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize 2022**'Oxblood shows us that there are few places literature can't take us, if the writer is brave enough, and gifted enough' FRANCIS SPUFFORD'The master of northern noir' SUNDAY TIMES'Brilliant' DENISE MINA'An absolute triu...

Winner of the Sunday Times Charlotte Aitken Young Writer of the Year AwardIt's Manchester, at the close of the millennium, and Henry Bane is now manager of an exclusive nightclub. He has a beautiful mistress, a teenage son, and is making moves in a violent underworld to which he is increasingly numbed.When a young girl is found tortured and unwilling to go to the police, Bane offers to help, and finds horror in a feral community with a respectable ...

It's Manchester, 1998, and the funeral party for Henry Bane's father is interrupted by a woman from Bane's past. Róisín is back in his life after an eight-year absence, inconvenient for Jan, his latest flame. Róisín has brought a wounded boyfriend with her - and a lot more trouble is following them up north.Meanwhile, a Yardie who goes by the name of 'Hagfish' wants to take over the local ganglords' territory with Mary, his terrifying weapon of choice. It's Hagfish against Bane in ...

Winner of the Sunday Times Charlotte Aitken Young Writer of the Year AwardIt's Manchester, July 1996, the month after the IRA bomb, and the Evening News is carrying reports of two murders. On the front page is a glamorous Egyptian woman, a socialite and heiress to an oil fortune, whose partially clothed body has been found in a basement. In the back pages there is a fifty-word piece on the murder of a young prostitute found dumped on a roadside.

Brought to you by Penguin.Unleash the dark and delirious with this electrifying anthology of folk horror from some of Britain's most iconic working-class voicesA phonograph cylinder that plays on a loop for eternity, casting out ghostly spectres of violence; a centuries-old stew made of severed body parts; a bigoted woman working at an ossuary, the bones she watches over her only remaining friends; three siblings who set out to scatter thei...

Bloomsbury presents Oxblood by Tom Benn, read by Chloe Massey.**Winner of the 2022 Sunday Times Charlotte Aitken Young Writer of the Year Award****Longlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize 2022**‘Oxblood shows us that there are few places literature can’t take us, if the writer is brave enough, and gifted enough’ FRANCIS SPUFFORD'The master of northern noir' SUNDAY TIMES'Brilliant' DENISE MINA'An absolute triumph' GUARDIAN'Powerful and so beaut...

Bloomsbury presents The Library of Traumatic Memory by Neil Jordan, read by Stephen Rea.The first literary science fiction novel from Neil Jordan, visionary director of The Company of Wolves and Interview with the VampireIn a windswept corner of a forgotten peninsula, love and loss echo through the halls of a mansion built on secrets. Here memory is currency of the future, and the past refuses to stay buried.In the year 20...

'Wildly atmospheric and truly chilling' Liz Jensen, Guardian'Andrew Michael Hurley's spookiest novel yet . . . crunchingly arresting' The Times'Folk horror for our times' Financial Times'Charged with dread' TLSALL WILL BE FORGIVEN, IF ALL CAN BE FORGOTTEN.The dilapidated seaside town of Saltwash isn't a place that Tom Shift would h...

Bloomsbury presents What If Reform Wins, written and read by Peter Chappell.*This audiobook includes an exclusive conversation between the author and journalist John Merrick*'Farage is Britain's new prime minister. Nirvana or nightmare? Whatever our reaction, we all need to take this scenario very seriously, as Peter Chappell's invigorating book does'Anthony Seldon'a dazzling imagined account of Nige...

THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER'NOT TO BE MISSED' OBSERVER'ADDICTIVE... AND EXPLOSIVE' DAILY TELEGRAPH'GRIPPING... A STONKINGLY GOOD READ' IRISH TIMESTHE GRITTY HEARTBREAKER OF A THRILLER, FOR FANS OF CHRIS WHITAKER AND TANA FRENCHHelen, Joe and Mush were part of an original group of six inseparable teenagers in the summer of 2003, with motherles...

LISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZEBLACKWELL'S BOOK OF THE YEAR'Mesmerising' Sunday Times'Magnificent' Guardian'Monumental' The TelegraphLeigh grew up in Rotterdam, drawn to the waterfront as an escape from her unhappy home life and volatile father. Enchanted by the undersea world of her childhood,...