The SensationistThis is the story of disastrous love affair, told against the background of a cold northern city. David, the self serving sensationalist of the title, is a newcomer to the city. Viewed through his cool, foreign eye the intricate daily life of the town I reduced to a series of encounters chance and sometimes fortuitous meetings with strangers David is an opportunist seducer. Isolated by the nature of the work that brought him to the city in the first

small kindnesses and unanticipated betrayals

The second book in Francesca Haigs incredible Fire Sermon series

the other to Lagos

compelling and original Mark Lawrence

The precinct he covers in the time frame of the book--the 70s--is becoming far more dangerous due to drugs and the increasing availability of guns within this war zone

and this time he carries not just the hopes of his own nation

glorious sense' Alain de Botton 'I take my hat off to Ali Smith

magyk and mayhem

That's the thing about policing: most of the time you're doing it to maintain public order

A US State Senator is dead

The investigation into the victims turbulent life sends Falcn trawling through his own past and the ferociously candid journals of his late father

many bodies and an ancient crime more terrible than murder