Imagine a world in which every bad thought you had was made visible. Where anger, hatred and envy appeared as a thick, infectious smoke pouring from your body, leaving soot on your skin. A society controlled by an elite who have learned to master their darkest desires.Thomas and Charlie are friends at a boarding school near Oxford, where the children of the rich and powerful are trained to be future leaders. Charlie is naturally good, but Thomas's father was accused of a terrible c...

Welcome to a world where every desire is visible, rising from the body as a plume of Smoke. A world where bodies speak to one another and infect each other with desire, anger, greed. It is 1909 and this world stands on a precipice - some celebrate this constant whisper of skin to skin, and some seek to silence it forever.Enter Eleanor, a young woman with a strange power over Smoke and niece of the Lord Protector of England. Running from her uncle and home, she finds shelter in a Ne...

Graham Greene meets Dostoevsky in a thrilling and atmospheric story of guilt and restitution set in postwar Vienna.Vienna, 1948. The war is over, and as the initial phase of de-Nazification winds down, the citizens of Vienna struggle to rebuild their lives amid the rubble.Anna Beer returns to the city she fled nine years earlier after discovering her husband's infidelity. She has come back to find him and, perhaps, to forgive him. Traveling on the same train from Switzerlan...

SMOKE is a gripping tale that bridges commercial, literary and genre fiction - a sweeping epic with the thrilling edge of The Secret History or The Passage and the magic of Philip Pullman's 'Dark Materials' trilogy or Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell.SMOKE opens in a private boarding school near Oxford, but history has not followed the path known to us. In this other past, sin is a physical attribute, visible to all, and c...

Welcome to a world where every desire is visible, rising from the body as a plume of Smoke. A world where bodies speak to one another and infect each other with desire, anger, greed. It is 1909 and this world stands on a precipice - some celebrate this constant whisper of skin to skin, and some seek to silence it forever.Enter Eleanor, a young woman with a strange power over Smoke and niece of the Lord Protector of England. Running from her uncle and home, she finds shelter in a Ne...

Shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize 2013________________________'Vyleta writes with the sharp, brutal clarity of cinematic freeze frames … Noir meets Gothic – a thrilling tale of war crimes, family secrets, murder and blackmail' Independent***'***The atmosphere of postwar Europe, still seething with animosity, is wonderfully evoked and the tangled plot is thrilling' The Times...

A tale of political paranoia, dangerous liaisons and defiant compassion, The Quiet Twin is an unforgettable journey into a cityscape of totalitarian dread and deception'The Quiet Twin reveals Vyleta to be a magical storyteller, a master of the macabre and a writer who illuminates the noir with a new darkness ... Vyleta creates a vivid Viennese waltz that explores the darkness of his chosen period in a way that both thrills and disturbs'

'Writing in the tradition of Graham Greene and John le Carré ... a stylish update of the Cold War spy thriller ... a proper page-turner' Metro'An espionage thriller, complete with double-crosses, torture, prostitution, a monkey and summary executions ... There is much to like about this book' The Times___________________Berlin, 1946. During one of the coldest winters on record, Pavel Richter, a decom...

ENDLESS DARK.ENDLESS TERROR.Paradise-1. Earth's first deep space colony. For thousands of colonists, it was an opportunity for a new life.Until it went dark. No communication has been received from the colony for months.It falls to Firewatch Agent Alexandra Petrova and the crew of the Artemis to investigate.What they find is more horrifying than they could have imagined.Paradise-1 beg...

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERAn estranged mother and daughter reunite to confront their family’s role in World War II in this harrowing, unforgettable novel about lost love and inherited shame.For fifty years, Anna Schlemmer refused to talk about her life in Germany during World War II. Her daughter, Trudy, was only three when she and her mother were liberated by an American soldier and went to live with him in Minnesota. Trudy's sole evidence of the past is an old photograph...

***THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER***'One of the best fantasy novels I've read in a long time...This book is truly special' Sarah J. Maas on The Bone Shard DaughterMagic. Revolution. Identity.The Bone Shard War is the unmissable ending to the Drowning Empire series which began with The Bone Shard Daughter - one of the biggest fantasy debuts of recent years - and continued with...

'One of the best fantasy novels I've read in a long time...This book is truly special' Sarah J. Maas***The Sunday Times bestselling series***Magic. Revolution. Identity.The Emperor's reign has lasted for decades, his mastery of bone shard magic powering the animal-like constructs that maintain law and order. But now his rule is failing, and revolution is sweeping across the Empire's many islands.Lin...