The Bone-Pedlar'In the crypt of the abbey church at Hallowdene, the monks were boiling their bishop . . .' This novel begins with monks but this is not the world of Brother Cadfael. This is the world of medieval quest, of castles, journeys, chance encounters with beggars and spies, of violent killings, and sometimes of unimaginable cruelty. It also a world deeply enmeshed with the supernatural, in which the holy remnants of saints the finger of St Thomas, the tooth

compulsive and page-turning read' KATE HAMER

First Light begins with an ominous coincidence: the reappearance of the ancient night sky during the excavation of an astronomically aligned Neolithic grave in Dorset

Ends and Odds brings together nine short dramatic works by the Nobel Prize-winning author of Waiting for Godot

In the company of the strangely alluring god and armed only with her wits

Detective Chief Inspector Brock and Detective Sergeant Kolla are called in

The ugliest threat to the people of Canterbury is the magus Tenebrae

ALL AT ONCE

a Monty Python of secret agents

including the apparent end of his parents' marriage and his father's desire to have him aborted

Nor the only thing to be afraid of

a tall dark stranger is turning out to be really good with a scythe)

Was this an accident