Something SpecialSomething Special was previously unpublished except in a 1950s anthology and in Japan, and rediscovered after her death. It is the only short story that Iris Murdoch ever wrote for publication. Set in Dublin, against the vividly recognisable backdrop of the writer's native city in the late fifties, Something Special is the story of Yvonne, an ordinary, bold young Irish woman who believes there's more to life than marriage to Sam, the respectable young

in an asylum

Mark Easterbrook knew he had to begin at the beginning

The second novel in Anna Smith Sparks epic Empires of Dust series

brave book that sheds a calm

But the community is deeply suspicious of her intentions

His books include The Big Sleep

She is regarded as the finest living novelist of Ancient Rome

'FASCINATING AND EERILY COMPELLING

knowing that he's guilty of something

Shes beautiful

The Martyr:

and the pikes above London Bridge decorated with the grim evidence of treachery