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Travis Stillwell spends his nights searching out women in honky-tonk bars on the back roads of Texas. What he does with them doesn't make him proud - it just quiets the demons for a little while. But when he crosses paths with one particular mysterious pale-skinned girl, he wakes up weak and bloo...

In the early days of World War II, the infamous German Luftwaffe embark upon an expedition to Antarctica's icy continent. Their mission ends in disaster - its frozen secrets lying forgotten for almost a century. When a former NUMA colleague mysteriously disappears, Kurt Austin and his assistant J...

Something is biting people on the streets of Whitby. In an ordinary town, this would be worrying. Here, it's disastrous, and only Brenda has guessed why. She's also trying to prepare for a packed festive break at her B&B, but her best friend Effie is in distracted mood.

In this collection, the poet is concerned with how mythology - specifically the story of Demeter and Persephone - explains the seasons. Time moves through the poems and the collection explores the way scientists view time, and how that view changes.

The 52 poems in this anthology are selected from those chosen during the 12 years in which Carol Rumens has written a regular 'Poem of the Week' for Guardian Books online. The poems are printed alongside the prose pieces which originally accompanied them, and the online comments included add the ...

A unique anthology, this volume gathers the shortlist of the world's biggest short story prize, as featured on 'Front Row'.

In this dual language English-Spanish collection, the poems of Darío Jaramillo Agudelo offer a relentless interrogation of time; an ecstatic celebration of life lived, and the melancholy induced by its transience.

'Dead Beat' introduces Kate Brannigan, a female private detective set to do for Manchester what Warshawski has done for Chicago. As a favour, Kate agrees to track down a missing song-writer, but her search takes her into the seediest parts of Leeds and Bradford.

In association with The Wordsworth Trust, this ambitious sonnet sequence focuses on six extraordinary months in 1802, exploring William Wordsworth's life and relationships.

A new selection of Elizabeth Jennings' best work, including the 1979 'Carcanet Selected' in its entirety with additional poems drawn from her subsequent collections up until her death.