This Charming ManVampires do not exist. Everyone knows this. So it's particularly annoying when they start popping up around Manchester . . . Nobody is pleased about it. Not the Founders, the secret organisation for whom vampires were invented as an allegory, nor the Folk, the magical people hidden in plain sight who only want a quiet life. And definitely not the people of Manchester, because there is nothing more irksome than being murdered by an allegory run amok.

the lives of her adored children

but as soon as he arrives hes working again

But she isn't who she once was

Sharpe extricates a handful of men from the debacle and is driven south into the threatened city

Utterly compelling Womans Own

'I have not been able to stop thinking about this book

Martyn Pig is a boy trapped in a miserable world with a terrible name

it was what the doctor ordered

Orphaned on the bloody battlefield

William Boyd and Ian McEwan

Was it suicide or murder

and a dangerous package he was protecting has gone missing