Corvus

'You do not leave a sick child alone to face the dark and you do not leave a child at a time like this.'Deeply in love and about to marry, students Misha and Sophia flee a Warsaw under Nazi occupation for a chance at freedom. Forced to return to the Warsaw ghetto, they help Misha's mentor, Dr Janusz Korczak, care for the two hundred children in his...

Let your writer take you to a daffodil-filled garden in Highgate, North London, where, just outside the kitchen window, something startling shimmers on the edge of perception. Fluttering and chattering, these are our kehua - a multiplying flock of Maori spirits (as will be explained) goaded into wakefulness by the conversation within....

New Mexico Territory, 1882: two itinerant lawmen walk their horses down the long, shale-scattered slope into the frontier town of APPALOOSA. They are here to restore the rule of law. They've done it before, they know what to do only too well. But they are not the only new arrivals in town... A brilliant introduction to Robert B. Parker, grandmaster...

Glasgow, 1946. The last time Douglas Brodie came home it was 1942 and he was a dashing young warrior in a kilt. Now, the war is over but victory's wine has soured and Brodie's back in Scotland to try and save childhood friend Hugh Donovan from the gallows. Everyone thought Hugh was dead, shot down in the war. Perhaps it would have been kinder if he...

Merrily Watkins: late thirties, single mum, parish priest, and a most original sleuth. When a redundant church is bought by a young pagan couple, the local fundamentalist minister reacts with fury. In the isolated community on the Welsh border, Merrily is expected to keep the lid on the cauldron. There's also the problem of a country solicitor who...

Have you ever done something you wish you could forget?Wracked with grief after an accident killed his wife and unborn child, all Marc Lucas wants is to wipe his memory. Until he returns home one night to find that his key doesn't fit in the lock and his wife is alive, well and pregnant - but claims not to recognise...