Shortlisted for the 2007 Man Booker Prize, an epic novel of startling originality which confirms Nicola Barker as one of Britain's most exciting literary talents.If history is a sick joke which keeps on repeating, then who keeps on telling it? Could it be John Scogin, Edward IV's jester, whose favourite skit was to burn people alive? Or could it be Andrew Boarde, physician to Henry VIII, who wrote John Scogin's biography? Or could it be a Kurd called Gaffar whose days are blighted ...

"Hilarious and erudite, spooky and unconventional, Darkmans is a dazzling achievement." — Washington PostShortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, Darkmans is an exhilarating, extraordinary examination of the ways in which history can play jokes on us all...If History is just a sick joke which keeps on repeating itself, then who exactly might be telling it, and why? Could it be John Scogin, Edward IV's infamous court ...

The city is shrouded in darkness and corruption and an enigmatic figure emerges from the shadows, striking fear into the hearts of criminals and hope into the oppressed. He is the Darkman, a masked avenger driven by a relentless pursuit of justice. But justice comes at a cost and the city's descent into chaos threatens to consume him. Detective John Anderson is determined to bring criminals to justice within the confines of the law. When a reluctant alliance forms between the Darkman and A...

ynamite presents the cross-over no one thought they would ever see - Ash and Darkman as we present Army of Darkness/Darkman #1! Two of Spider-Man Director Sam Raimi's most famous creations finally meet at Darkman battles Ash and the Deadit's from the Army of Darkness! AOD/Darkman featured the creative team of the legendary Roger Stern, Kurt ("Superman") Busiek and artist James Fry! Joining this all-star creative team is DC Exclusive artist George ("Infinite Crisis") Perez and AOD favorite ...

Dynamite presents the cross-over no one thought they would ever see - Ash and Darkman as we present Army of Darkness/Darkman #1! Two of Spider-Man Director Sam Raimi's most famous creations finally meet at Darkman battles Ash and the Deadit's from the Army of Darkness!AOD/Darkman featured the creative team of the legendary Roger Stern, Kurt ("Superman") Busiek and artist James Fry! Joining this all-star creative team is DC Exclusive artist George ("Infinite Crisis") Perez and AOD favorite ...

Winner of IMPAC Dublin Literary Award in 2000, Wide Open is the first of Nicola Barker’s Thames Gateway novels.Poking out of the River Thames estuary, the strange Isle of Sheppey is home to a nudist beach, a nature reserve, a wild boar farm and not much else. The landscape is bleak, but the people are interesting. There's Luke, who specialises in join-the-dots pornography and lippy, outraged Lily. They are joined by Jim, the 8-year-old Nathan and the mysterious, dark-eyed Ronnie.

With Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, Man Booker International Prize-winner Olga Tokarczuk returns with a subversive, entertaining noir novel. In a remote Polish village, Janina Duszejko, an eccentric woman in her sixties, recounts the events surrounding the disappearance of her two dogs. She is reclusive, preferring the company of animals to people; she's unconventional, believing in the stars; and she is fond of the poetry of William Blake, from whose work the title o...

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,...

'ONE OF THE MOST BRILLIANTLY INVENTIVE WRITERS OF THIS, OR ANY, COUNTRY' INDEPENDENTThe Number One Sunday Times Bestseller'Wildly entertaining'SPECTATOR'A stand-out triumph'SUNDAY TIMES'Superb'LITERARY REVIEW'Impressive'NEW YORKER'Highly entertaining'...

From the author of Grief Is the Thing with FeathersThe Sunday Times Top Ten BestsellerLonglisted for the Booker Prize'Books this good don't come along very often.' Maggie O'Farrell'A magically beguiling work, a triumph.' Financial Times'A thing of total joy . . . thrums with rhythm and life.' ObserverNot far from London, there is a village....

The breakthrough novel from one of the greatest comic writers in the language – one of the twenty selected by Granta as the Best of Young British Writers 2003.Some people follow the stars. Some people follow the soaps. Some people follow rare birds, or obscure bands, or the form, or the football.Wesley prefers not to follow. He thinks that to follow anything too assiduously is a sign of weakness. Wesley is a prankster, a maverick, a charismatic manipulator, an accidental mu...

The hilarious Man Booker-longlisted novel from the author of ‘Darkmans’ and ‘The Burley Cross Postbox Theft’.2006 is a foreign country; they do things differently there. Tiger Woods' reputation is entirely untarnished and the English Defence League does not exist. But storm-clouds are gathering above the bar of Luton's less-than-exclusive Thistle Hotel. Among those caught up in the unfolding drama are a man who's survived cancer seven times, a woman priest with an unruly fringe, th...