Who They Was - signed, lined & datedLonglisted for the 2020 Booker Prize A literary rendering of the Top Boy generation I cannot conjure another work which captures this culture in such depth or with such brutal honesty as only lived experience can tell Graeme Armstrong, author of The Young Team An astonishingly powerful book Cathy Rentzenbrink, author of The Last Act of Love This life is like being in an ocean. Some people keep swimming towards the bottom. Some people touch the bottom

So he travels to Zurich

and the streets of Queens

With Tyler out of action

where old school ties and secret Oxbridge societies lubricate vast and illegal conflicts of interest

bookish and calm

from California

an honorary nobleman

'A world-class crime writer' Sunday Times

Cathaline and Thaniel must discover its cause

She has long concealed her history - and her feelings - from the casual observer

WELCOME BACK TO BIRDDOM Time has moved on

moves the traditional crime novel on to some deeper level of exploration' Jane Jakeman