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A Vengeful Longing
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Satisfies on more than one level as a story of investigation and also as a historical novel crammed with sharply individual characters. Andrew Taylor, author of The American BoyIn the heat of the St Petersburg summer of 1868, a doctor s wife and son are found dead, victims of a suspected (...)
A Gentle Axe
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Lush, and exceptionally compelling, but take your time . . . The Gentle Axe has a vast depth of Russian soul; mysterious, compassionate, and utterly irresistible. Alan Furst, author of The Polish OfficerSt Petersburg. The winter of 1866. Two frozen bodies are found in Petrovsky Park a dwarf (...)
Bring the Noise
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An anthology of writings spanning Simon Reynolds s extraordinary career as a music writer, Bring the Noise weaves together interviews, reviews, essays, and features to create a critical history of the last twenty years of pop culture. Bring the Noise juxtaposes the voices of many of rock and rap s (...)
Totally Wired
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From the author of the bestselling postpunk history Rip It Up and Start Again comes Totally Wired, a companion book of conversations with the brilliant minds who made the late seventies and early eighties such a creative era for radical music and alternative culture. Totally Wired features (...)
Rip it Up and Start Again
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A fantastic tribute to an amazingly creative musical period . . . An instant pop classic, worthy of a place on your shelves beside the handful of music books that really matter. John McTernan, Scotland on Sunday Punk revitalized rock in the mid-seventies, but the movement soon degenerated into (...)
How We Live and Why We Die
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How do we move, think and remember? Why do we get ill, age and die? Distinguished biologist Lewis Wolpert explains how cells provide the answers to the fundamental questions about our lives.Cells are the basis of all life in the universe. Our bodies are made up of billions of them: an incredibly (...)
Death on a Branch Line
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It is the summer of 1911 and as Britain is gripped by paranoia about German spies and secret preparations for war, railway detective Jim Stringer decides to set out for a much-needed holiday.But before he can leave he finds himself escorting a young aristocrat, Hugh Lambert, who is on his way to be (...)
Murder at Deviation Junction
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The latest in Andrew Martin s much-loved Jim Stringer, Steam Detective series. Andrew Martin has recreated an extraordinarily convincing world . . . Terrific. Daily TelegraphDecember, 1909. A train hits a snowdrift in the frozen Cleveland Hills. In the process of clearing the line a body is (...)
The Lost Luggage Porter
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Unerringly sharp and pioneeringly original, it locks the reader in from start to finish. Andrew Barrow, SpectatorWinter, 1906. It s Jim Stringer s first day as an official railway detective, but he s not a happy man.As the rain falls incessantly on the city s ancient streets, the local paper (...)
The Blackpool Highflyer
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A steamy whodunnit . . . This may well be the best fiction about the railways since Dickens. Independent on Sunday Genuinely gripping . . . The sort of thing D. H. Lawrence might have written had he been less verbose or been blessed with a sense of humour. Peter Parker, Evening Standard (Books (...)