Item category 2: City of Literature

Cleo knows she should be happy for her brother Mark. He's managed to find someone new after the sudden death of his first wife - but something about Evie just doesn't feel right. When Evie starts having accidents at home, her friends grow concerned. Could Mark be causing her injuries? Called out ...

When Laura Fletcher approaches her home in Oxfordshire to find hordes of photographers crowding the gates, she knows there is something terribly wrong. She is faced with the shocking news that her husband is dead - brutally murdered - and according to Chief Inspector Tom Douglas, there is little ...

When Olivia Brookes calls the police to report that her husband and children are missing, she believes she will never see them again. She has reason to fear the worst; this isn't the first tragedy that Olivia has experienced. Now, two years late, Detective Chief Inspector Tom Douglas is called in...

'A Few Interiors' is the debut collection from an alumnus of Carcanet's 'New Poetries' series, and a recent favourite in the pages of PN Review. Rowland Bagnall's poems are, in various ways, about seeing things - movies, paintings, landscapes, rooms - and seeing or not seeing the frames that hold...

'The Tragic Death' presents a set of dramatic lyric poems about the alluring and tragic consequences of translation in its many guises. Tara Bergin is a winner of the Seamus Heaney Prize.

A story of ambition and opportunity, providence and survival, that explores a family's bond of unspoken love and loyalty. Beginning in Manchester in 1930, it follows Nell, who grows up to work in a factory, and her younger brother, Bobby, who finds himself fighting in the jungles of Malaya.

Nina Bogin's 'Thousandfold' is a journey through seasons and landscapes, a journal of ordinary life punctuated by extraordinary people and moments - the births of grandchildren, the physical decline of a husband, relationships with family and friends. Her poems connect the unknowable past of ance...