Vintage

The brilliant follow-up to the debut thriller THE TWELVE. Former hit man, Gerry Fegan, is in New York, hiding from a past he escaped at a terrible cost. But he has made a fatal mistake; he spared the life of Bull O'Kane, a ruthless man who will stop at nothing to get his revenge on those who were present at a devastating attack at his farm house....

'The Beacon uses a small canvas, but it examines larger issues of truth, mental health and memory... Ideas about wasted lives, about grinding exhaustion at the expense of self-expression and about rank injustice are all here in a novel of great structural and stylistic control'Guardian...

A middle-aged couple out walking in the woods discover the body of a half-naked boy. To Kristine's horror her husband, Reinhardt, begins to take photographs of the body on his mobile phone but this proves only the beginning of his obsession with the case. Inspector Sejer is called to the scene but he can find no immediate cause of death, nor can he...

In Reheated Cabbage you can enjoy Christmas dinner with Begbie and discover how aliens addicted to Embassy Regal have Midlothian under surveillance. You will meet a husband who values a televised Hibs v Hearts game more than his wife's life and see two guys fighting over a beautiful girl agree - after a few pills and pints of lager - that their...

A.L. Kennedy's fifth remarkable collection of short stories shows us exactly what becomes of the broken-hearted. Always attuned to the moment of epiphany, these twelve stories are profound, intimate observations of men and women whose lives ache with possibility - each story a dramatisation of the instant in a life that exposes it all. She reveals...

'Black satire of the highest polish' GuardianWhilst awaiting trial for war crimes in an Israeli prison, Howard W. Campbell Jr sets down his memoirs on an old German typewriter. He has used such a typewriter before, when he worked as a Nazi propagandist under Goebbels. Though that was before he agreed to become a spy for US military. Is Howard...