To mark the paperback publication of The Winter Job, I am delighted to be able to repost my review of the hardback, and to celebrate the fact that this not only won the CWA Crime Fiction In Transla…

1985. Nineteen-year-old Filip spends his days playing football, listening to music on his Walkman and drawing, searching for something he cannot yet name. He lives in a large family house shared wi…

Alyssa wants to be seen. Less wants to be someone. She takes two buses to class, posts pictures of her lunch, and pretends it’s all effortless. He hides his privilege beneath thrifted clothes…

I’ve got a real smorgasbord of reads for you accrued over the course of April, but still very much enjoying my new credo of reading, for the most part, what I like when I like. Obviously ther…

Another month of a real mixed bag of reading, but far less DNFs than in previous months. Some absolute corkers read, and some books that were so bad they were good, as I like to vent my spleen! Als…

Outstanding crime fiction from Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden shortlisted for the 2025 Petrona Award. Seven impressive crime novels from Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden have been shortlist…

The virgin rainforest seems a paradise to Englishman Simon Corbett. A last chance to salvage his career. A final refuge from a terrible secret. But the jungle is no Eden. It hides secrets of its ow…

November, 1939. A conscription officer arrives in the peaceful farming village of Rautjärvi. The Soviet Union has invaded, and for the first time in its history as an independent country, Finland i…

OUTSTANDING CRIME FICTION FROM FINLAND, ICELAND, NORWAY, AND SWEDEN LONGLISTED FOR THE 2025 PETRONA AWARD Twelve crime novels from Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden have made the longlist for the…

In the depths of the Maine woods, the wreckage of an aeroplane is discovered. There are no bodies, and no such plane has ever been reported missing, but men both good and evil have been seeking it …

When Cockney private detective George Harley saves a young girl’s life on a dark London night in 1929, he doesn’t realise it marks the beginning of an investigation which will change his life forev…

Living in exile in Venice, the disgraced Lord Byron revels in the freedoms of the city. But when he is associated with the deaths of local women, found with wounds to their throats, and then a nove…

Allen & Unwin | 2 January 2025 | 496p | Hardback edition | Review copy It is 1685 and England is not ready for another Civil War. The arrival of the Duke of Monmouth, the late Charles II’…

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